It's been more than six months since David Bowie's death and we're still reeling. But the legendary rocker’s legacy lives on—and not just in his music.

We’ve just got news that a lock of Bowie's hair is helping to save Thailand's soi dogs. Wendy Farrier, a former employee at Madame Tussauds waxwork museum in London, last month submitted a piece of Bowie’s hair for auction by the Beverly Hills-based Heritage Auctions.  

The lock sold for £13,700 (B638,783), an unspecified percentage of which Farrier will donate to Soi Dog Foundation in Phuket.

Farrier, 55, met Bowie back in the ‘80s when she took a sample of hair in order to create an accurate wig for his wax figure. At the time, Bowie had a multi-colored quiff which meant Farrier had to take around five snips. Instead of destroying the hair, as museum policy dictates, Farrier kept a lock in a framed photo of the two of them and hung it on her wall for 30 years, until she recently moved from Surrey to Wales. 

In a press statement, Farrier said, "I wanted to give something back. I’m not a wealthy lady and Soi Dog does such good work. It will go to helping them to feed the dogs, rehabilitate them, get them off to good homes." 

Soi Dog Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation established in 2003, which rescues, treats, shelters and provides new homes for neglected and abused dogs in Thailand