>From Edmonton, Alberta Province, Canada This story is from the Edmonton newspaper.
http://www.leaderpost.com/life/Airlift+Canada+rescues+abandoned+chihuahuas/4272155/story.html Airlift to Edmonton rescues abandoned L.A. chihuahuas By Paula Bustamante, AFP LONG BEACH, California, Feb 12, 2011 (AFP) - Blame it on Paris Hilton: the craze for owning small dogs as fashion accessories has led to an explosion in the number of chihuahuas in Los Angeles, where tiny canines are everywhere. But now an animal-friendly philanthropist has come to their rescue, organizing an airlift of diminutive pooches abandoned by impatient owners in California jetting them off by private plane to Canada, of all places. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Toy-Dogs/message/2117 The full text of this story was also posted to message 2117 above ------------- End Of Story ------------- PhotoCaption: Handlers load some of the 58 homeless Chihuahuas and small mixed breed dogs from Los Angeles which are being flown to Edmonton, Canada for adoption as part of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles (spcaLA) "Air Chihuahua program," on the tarmac in Long Beach, California February 11, 2011. Photograph by: AFP, Getty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta There are 1,034,945 people in the entire Edmonton metro area http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_County,_California And almost 10 million in LA County and yet we have to spend $40,000 flying dogs to new homes in this remote area (?) WRZ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chihuahuas/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Toy-Dogs/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ShelterFundraising/ ------------------------------------ We are now on Facebook! Join today! http://www.facebook.com/groups/chihuahuasclubYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chihuahuas/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chihuahuas/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
