- Chihuahuapalooza & The Paris Hilton Syndrome
- An attempt by California’s animal shelters to encourage the adoption of unwanted (and increasingly unfashionable) lap dogs.
Reporting from San Francisco for The Los Angeles Times, Maria L. La Gangarevealed:
If every dog has its day, the Chihuahua’s, it seems, may be on the wane.Representatives from half a dozen Bay Area animal shelters and rescue groups asked the public’s help Wednesday in remedying a serious statewide glut of the petite pooches.“All the shelters in California are seeing an upswing in Chihuahua impounds,” Deb Campbell, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco animal care and control department, said in an interview. “It’s been a slow and steady climb. . . . We call it the Paris Hilton syndrome.” …San Francisco dubbed the outreach “Chihuahuapalooza”: 50 yipping, shivering canines jammed into a small lobby with TV cameras rolling.According to La Ganga, the extent of “California’s Chihuahua oversupply” is such that animal services are arranging to have the pocket-sized pooches flown to other states. Recently, 25 dogs were relocated from Los Angeles to Nashua, New Hampshire, where they were all adopted within a day.
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