22 chihuahuas

[bill_schubert]

 I got this message from my boss at Texas Humane Heroes:

Hi. We are trying to help a shelter that took in 42 dogs today. They need us to pick them up tomorrow at mineral wells shelter. We are taking 6 single adults 1 mom and puppies. You can take our vehicle. Would you be able to pick up? I’m sorry it’s last minute

Of course I said yes.  It was a six hour round trip drive.  Fortunately they have a really nice van with cruise control and the trip is on back roads, not Interstate.  

We brought back

4 mothers with 12 puppies between them and 6 adults for a total of 22 chihuahuas mutts.  They mostly look like foxes.  I'd add a picture but Flickr is down so maybe tomorrow.

It was a PIA drive but getting the dogs out of a bad situation and into the shelter here was really worth it.  

And, no, we don't have any new dogs.

Yet.

Comments

[susandennis]

Oh! Wow. And very cool of you. I'm pissed at Flickr I wanna see!

[msconduct]

22 extra dogs? You'll hardly notice them! Just think of them as a nice new winter blanket.

[bill_schubert]

There is a book by the name of Gormenghast where the queen has so many cats they are a blanket for her.

I'm thinking chihuahuas might not cooperate so well.

[msconduct]

I didn't get very far with Gormenghast - it was a bit heavy going - but I enjoyed the TV series. I don't remember the cats though. Probably pre-CGI they couldn't make the cats do it. Like that episode of the X-Files Teso Dos Bichos where they kept trying to dirty the cats up to make them look menacing and in between takes they all washed themselves.