New York City is embracing California’s unwanted Chihuahuas. More than a dozen of the goggle-eyed poochies from San Francisco were flown to New York last week, where the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) will help them find new homes.
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Chihuahuas, best known for inhabiting the handbags of Paris Hilton and other Hollywood simpletons, became New Yorkers this month after being rescued from the West Coast. The evacuation was in response to what ASPCA calls the “massive overpopulation of Chihuahuas in California.”
Diane Wilkerson, director of the ASPCA volunteer program, blames a change in Hollywood trends and the poor economy for the increase in homeless Chihuahuas.
“Small dogs are very, very popular here in New York, so there seemed to be a really nice way New York could work with this,” she said.