82 Chihuahuas Rescued or should I say Chi’wow’wow!!

I always love to talk to my customers about their dogs and I couldn’t believe my ears when Paige started telling me about her two rescued Chihuahuas.

Groots Story  :

Groot’s mother was  pregnant with him when she was part of a household already overrun with Chihuahas, 82 to be exact!  It’s a very sad story where eventuality the Police had to call in the RSPCA.  An older couple had taken on just two chihuahuas puppies as pets, they never got round to neutering them and when the puppies started to arrive they loved them so much they just couldn’t give them up. The puppies grew and had more puppies and in the space of 4 years the couple had gone from having 2 pets to having 82!!! Its one of the largest cases of Dog Hoarding that the RSCPA has ever dealt with.

Chihuahua Groot was a puppy born from one of the 82 rescued from a house in Birmingham

‘This was a classic hoarding situation but it was clear the couple had loved their dogs and things had simply got out of hand,’ says RSPCA Inspector Boal. ‘The couple had started out with two pet chihuahuas – Blue and Tinkerbell. Unfortunately, they didn’t get their dogs neutered and four years later, they had 82 dogs! ‘This was a really sad case but it was also a really memorable one for me due to the sheer number of dogs involved.”

The story has been featured on Chanel 5s Dog Rescuers programe and you can see an exert from it on the Independents website

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rspca-chihuahua-dogs-birmingham-house-animal-mistreatment-a8416031.html

Gracie :

The beautiful Gracie was rescued from a puppy farm when RSPCA inspectors stepped in to put a stop to their trade. Poor Gracie had been used as a breeding machine and had a number of litters before  her new mum fostered her for a year during the rspca court case and then adopted her when she was signed over to the rspca.