--- title: Jon Stewart Rescues Goats From NYC Subway Fiasco description: If you somehow didn't already love Jon Stewart, then you almost certainly will after hearing about his recent goat rescue mission. canonical: https://time.com/5373106/jon-stewart-goats-nyc-subway/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-21T15:01:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:26.732Z og:title: Beloved Celebrity Brings Goat Subway Fiasco to Its Conclusion og:description: The two goats ended up in very safe hands og:url: https://time.com/5373106/jon-stewart-goats-nyc-subway/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbdace4922d763c9e/6989382597cdffc0e36b606f/goats-nyc-subway-mta.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: goats-nyc-subway-mta og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Beloved Celebrity Brings Goat Subway Fiasco to Its Conclusion twitter:description: The two goats ended up in very safe hands twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbdace4922d763c9e/6989382597cdffc0e36b606f/goats-nyc-subway-mta.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Beloved Celebrity Has Brought the Goat Subway Fiasco to Its Heartwarming Conclusion  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 21, 2018 3:01 PM UTC  Metropolitan Transportation Authority  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 21, 2018 3:01 PM UTC If you somehow didn’t already love [Jon Stewart](http://time.com/5326453/jon-stewart-takes-over-colbert/), then you almost certainly will after hearing about his recent [goat rescue](http://time.com/5372265/goats-nyc-subway-mta/) mission. Remember those two runaway goats who were wandering the tracks of the [New York City subway](http://time.com/5242077/new-york-city-subway-flooding/) on Monday? It turns out that Stewart and his wife Tracey were part of the crew who helped make sure the animals ended up in safe hands. After New York police tranquilized and captured the goats, they were transported to a Brooklyn location of Animal Care Centers of New York. The former _Daily Show_ host then showed up with a team from Farm Sanctuary to bring the newly named Billy and Willy to the animal protection organization’s shelter in upstate New York. The Stewarts have long worked as animal welfare activists and even own the New Jersey Farm Sanctuary location Bufflehead Farm. They have previously [rescued a bull who escaped from a slaughterhouse](https://people.com/pets/runaway-new-york-slaughterhouse-bull-has-found-happily-ever-after-thanks-to-jon-stewart/) as well as an abused horse. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5373106/jon-stewart-goats-nyc-subway/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5373106/jon-stewart-goats-nyc-subway/"},"headline":"A Beloved Celebrity Has Brought the Goat Subway Fiasco to Its Heartwarming Conclusion","datePublished":"2018-08-21T15:01:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:26.732Z","description":"The two goats ended up in very safe hands","url":"https://time.com/5373106/jon-stewart-goats-nyc-subway/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","celebrities","viral","Jon Stewart"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbdace4922d763c9e/6989382597cdffc0e36b606f/goats-nyc-subway-mta.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbdace4922d763c9e/6989382597cdffc0e36b606f/goats-nyc-subway-mta.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"goats-nyc-subway-mta","caption":"goats-nyc-subway-mta","creditText":"Metropolitan Transportation Authority","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5373106/jon-stewart-goats-nyc-subway/","name":"A Beloved Celebrity Has Brought the Goat Subway Fiasco to Its Heartwarming Conclusion"}}]}] ```