Gus Kenworthy has posed a topless photo of himself with a dog which he saved from a South Korean dog meat farm.
The silver medal-winning freestyle skier revealed earlier this year that he and his boyfriend Matthew Wilkas had rescued a dog from the country – where he competed in the Winter Olympics for the first time since he came out in 2015 – and called her Beemo.
Just months later, the 26-year-old US athlete told his followers that Beemo had passed away.
Gus Kenworthy and Matthew Wilkas with Beemo (Instagram/guskenworthy)
But on Friday (August 3), in a heartfelt Instagram post, Kenworthy introduced fans to the couple’s new dog, Birdie, who was also rescued from South Korea.
“The day Matt and I visited the horrifying dog meat farm in South Korea we witnessed a mother dog giving birth to a litter of pups,” he wrote.
Kenworthy came out in 2015 (guskenworthy/instagram)
“The people at @hsiglobal told us that had they not been there filming my visit nobody would’ve seen the pups immediately and they likely would’ve died in the brutal cold.
“Luckily though I saw them and they were rushed inside and saved. A few weeks later when all 90 of the dogs on that farm (including Beemo) were flown to North America that mother and her newborn litter were the only ones that stayed behind because the pups were too young to travel.
“After Beemo passed away I was feeling completely empty and I reached back out to the Humane Society International to find out what happened to that litter,” he continued.
Kenworthy was responsible for many dogs being freed (Instagram/guskenworthy)
“I found out that they were still in Korea and I began getting photo and video updates on them as I waited for another farm closure and an opportunity for them to be brought to the States.
“That finally happened and four days ago I picked this little girl up in DC.
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