The Betty White Challenge encourages people to send $5 to an animal shelter on Jan. 17, when White would have turned 100.
America has lost its favorite golden girl, but her death is creating a golden opportunity for the animal-related causes she championed.
iframe.twitter-tweet { width: 100% !important; } When she wasn’t busy charming audiences on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and as St. Olaf’s own Rose Nylund on “The Golden Girls,” White was an active advocate for animals — not just cats and dogs, but sea creatures and apes, too. She was a trustee at the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association, the Morris Animal Foundation and Actors and Others for Animals, and was a longtime supporter of The Marine Mammal Center, an ocean conservation nonprofit.
“Betty always put the animals first,” said Dr. Rob Hilsenroth, a former Morris Animal Foundation executive director and a longtime friend of White’s. ‘Anything with a leg on each corner’ White hosted a TV show called “The Pet Set” in the early 1970s, where celebrity guests would show off their pets. She wrote a book in the 1980s called “How Pets Take Care of Us,” and another book about zoos to raise money for the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association.
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