At
first glance, it looked like any other yard sale ad: furniture, books, clothes,
toys, and two Chihuahuas. Wait—what?
When Chihuahua mother Chickpea and
her puppy, Potato, were spotted for sale along with trinkets and toasters, a
concerned citizen wondered what would happen to these vulnerable little animals
if they were acquired as casually as they were being abandoned. So she arranged
to pick up the mother dog and her puppy, and took them to the nearby Danville
Area Humane Society (DAHS), an open-door shelter that carefully screens
potential adopters, in Virginia.
Not long afterward, PETA invited DAHS
to participate in a multishelter adopt-a-thon that we held at our Norfolk,
Virginia, headquarters, the Sam Simon Center. While other dogs who made the
four-hour trip from Danville got adopted, adorable Chickpea and Potato were
still homeless by the end of the day.
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