“Now you think about that, right? And dogs will give up their lives for you. “This is difficult for me … but it is important because, without people like you, he’d basically be in someone’s stomach,” he said. As he held the Maltese mix named Robin in his lap, Cowell spoke about why he is so passionate about animal activism.
Cowell was reunited with one of the dogs he helped rescue during a 2020 interview with ITV’s Good Morning Britain. In 2018, he donated $32,600 to Humane Society International to help the organization shut down a a South Korean dog meat farm and rescue the over 200 dogs who had been living there. He has been very open about his love of animals, though.
