Meet Sam Simon, The Dog Nut
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Darren September 17th, 2007
Halloween party for the dogs from the co-creator of “The Simspons”.
Share ThisThis story is a goofy stew of big money, abandoned dogs, professional boxing, fine art, poker, and America’s favorite dysfunctional family, the Simpsons. Those various elements are embodied in the personality of a 52-year-old Californian named Sam Simon, a veteran television producer who is perhaps the Renaissance man of the baffling, uncertain age we live in.
I used to deny that I was a dog nut and people would ask me, ‘Well, what is a dog nut?’ And I would say, ‘Well, to me the line was when you start dressing up your dogs.’ And then I had to qualify that I don’t do that except on, you know, Halloween or special occasions,” Simon tells Safer.
Sam Simon’s Halloween costume party for dogs is something to bark about. There’s Harvey, his gigantic Irish wolfhound, and Casey, 16, deaf as a stone and of dubious provenance. Sam got Casey from an old girlfriend’s pot dealer. For his guests, Sam organized dog games and prizes for the best costume. Remember, this is Hollywood.
And Simon is not just any dog nut. This one runs the grandest dog shelter in the country, a five star, six acre spread in Malibu, perhaps the most desirable real estate on the planet. Here, among the waterfalls and the manicured grounds, the Sam Simon Foundation gives stray and abandoned dogs a new lease on life, literally.
“We rescue dogs and we train them to be service dogs, which helps people with disabilities,” he explains.
The dogs all come from southern California animal shelters, where many of them would otherwise be put down, a euphemism for killed. A fate that the ASPCA says befalls as many as nine million lost and unwanted dogs and cats each year in this country.
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