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I need to give my 2 chihuahuas,to a safe home.Is there a place where I could take them?

I live in California. I have 2 chihuahuas,I need to place them in a good home.I have to the end of the month,is there a place where I could take them? please help,no rude answers! I waited this long,because I tried to find a place where I was able to take them.I have to move out,so this place were Im going I can't take them.

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1. The local shelter would usually be the first choice - preferably a no-kill facility. You could also try to contact a Chihuahua rescue group online. Failing that, a non-profit might be willing to host a listing on PetFinder for you. (I was going to suggest something else but it would have been mean...)
2. Contact one your local "rescue" shelters and see if they know of anyone. They could help you screen possible new owners and maybe give you a heads up of someone looking. Offering free dogs is easy...finding them a good home is tuff. Make sure they are spayed and or neutered so you don't have to worry about them being bred to death and it will also cut the byb's out of your search. Make sure to meet and talk to the new owners and if at all possible try to keep a current number with them in case they don't work out so you can have the option to either take the dogs back or re-home them. Good luck.
3. You need to find a local chihuahua rescue group. Try calling a vet and asking them if they know of any rescue groups or they may know some one that is looking for a chihuahua.
4. It's always best to try and look for a all-breed rescue first, because they would know the breed and those types of rescues usually know the breed so well they know what family would be right for them and therefore they would probably find the best fit for the breed. Even if it means out of state, a lot of them do transports from state to state. I would go to the breed club to check out the rescues and see if there is one in your area. The next would be a rescue that takes in all breeds, of course rescues are no-kill so this is a great option! They also arrange transport if you need out of state. The last option (that should never be an option when looking for a place to take your pet if you truly to care about them) is the shelter. There are no-kill shelters so if you do decide to go this route after all else fails thats is. Good luck with finding homes for your dogs! - Kreyol terriers
5. I would recommend giving them to a no-kill rescue shelter for re-homing. Generally the shelters screen the potential owners thoroughly and make them sign a contract. That's your best bet! Papaw
6. Good luck trying to place them in a shelter or rescue. Chis are being bred at the speed of light in CA, so much so that they're being shipped all over the country to other shelters that at least have a chance of placing them. I'm not sure why if you only have to the end of the month you've chosen to wait until now to try to place them, but put ads up everywhere. Online, local papers and vet offices. Make sure you screen carefully & check references
7. Google to find a Chihuahua Rescue near you.
8. Good luck. In case you have not noticed in California Chihuahuas are SECOND only to Pit Bulls in our shelters state wide. My local shelter has 80 of them today. My local PetCo has 25 of them every Sunday from a local small dog rescue-all of them having been pulled from kill shelters. If you are unable to find them a home then the kindest thing to so would be to put them to sleep rather then relinquish them to the pound. -------------------------------- The Golden State Finds itself with a Chihuahua Overload Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by Elisa Jordan in NEWS California is known for many things: warm weather, palm trees, surfing, Hollywood. In fact, the land of make believe is finding itself under fire for a state-specific Chihuahua overload, which is one distinction California appears eager to lose. California animal welfare and rescue workers have found themselves in the unique position of having too many Chihuahuas in need of permanent homes. The glut, some believe, directly relates to the recent attention the breed has received in movies and television, with many calling the phenomenon the “Paris Hilton Syndrome.” The real story appears slightly more complicated than simply blaming a Chihuahua-toting heiress, although no one denies the very bright spotlight shining on the breed of late has played a significant role in the problem. “Part of it is the influence of Hollywood,” says spcaLA president Madeline Bernstein. “It happens every time there’s a movie or a popular dog for some reason. You can go all the way back to Lassie ruining it for Collies and Rin Tin Tin ruining it for Shepherds and, of course, the Dalmatian [movies].” Chihuahuas in particular, Bernstein says, have always been listed as one of the more popular breeds to begin with. Chihuahua fever, though, appears to have been sparked as far back as the 1990s. That was the age of the memorable Taco Bell commercials, in which an adorable talking Chihuahua declares “Yo quiero Taco Bell!” and Madonna, ever the beacon of what’s fashionable, was spotted carting around a Chihuahua named Chiquita everywhere she went, including her highly publicized Human Nature video. Chiquita and her buddies Rosita and Evita later ended up in rescue after Madonna morphed into another incarnation. More recently, the Chihuahua Bruiser turned up as Reese Witherspoon’s companion in the movie Legally Blonde. Britney Spears and hotel heiress and pop culture icon Paris Hilton, whose dog Tinkerbell also co-starred with her on The Simple Life, tucked their respective Chihuahuas under their arms for red carpet appearances, and they had starring roles in the film Beverly Hills Chihuahua, along with actress Jamie Lee Curtis. Interest in the diminutive breed increased and enthusiasts rushed to get one of their own. But many lost interest in their new dogs or ended up with a heap of behavioral or veterinary issues after getting a Chihuahua that was bred more to supply the demand than for health and temperament. Often, too, new dog owners don’t take care and training into consideration. “Very often people think, ‘How cool. I can go to the store and get a pink shirt and the Chihuahua can get a pink shirt,’” Bernstein says. “And suddenly they realize that the dog also pees, the dog also poops, it’s expensive to go to the veterinarian. You may not be able to take the dog with you on vacation and so the novelty of having an accessory becomes enlightened by the reality of having a pet and the two don’t match. I think what you see here are these impulse purchases of this really cute dog or this need to have what appears to be an essential accessory and not realizing that the dog is a dog and not a necklace.” There are other likely reasons contributing to the exploding Chi (as they’re often affectionately called) population in rescues and shelters. The troubled economy, record foreclosures, poorly bred dogs and not everyone following Bob Barker’s advice to spay and neuter pets are other culprits. So the problem is less of a single-source cause and more of a perfect storm of different things coming together at once to form a disaster. By some estimates, abandoned Chihuahuas make up approximately 30 percent of the canine population in California rescues and shelters. “I couldn’t tell you the exact percentage because it changes every day, dogs come in and out every day, but we are definitely seeing a lot more—obviously a lot more—Chihuahuas than we did before,” Bernstein says. “A few years ago over the course of the year we had about 250 Chihuahuas and this year [2009] we’ve already had 500.” While it’s tough to determine an exact percentage, the numbers of Chihuahuas in shelters remains disproportionately high. It’s not a problem rescues and shelters have had in other states. “We don’t have an overabundance of small lap dogs,” says Tammy DeVito, animal care director of the Humane Society for Greater Nashua in Nashua, N.H. “There are some toy dogs in breed rescue groups for when people want specific breeds but in shelters we don’t see very many of them.” California shelters and rescues are currently so overrun with Chihuahuas that Laurel Kinder, president of Kinder4Rescue in Studio City, conceived the idea of contacting facilities in other states to see if they were interested in the overflow. “I had no idea that there were so many small dogs languishing in shelters on the west coast,” says DeVito, whose shelter began working with Kinder on the proposed project. Kinder found the Greater Nashua shelter because her daughter lives near the area. “When she contacted me,” DeVito says, “we went through the logistics of how we would get this done and we discussed what the criteria was as far as accepting dogs from out of state and there are legal requirements that we have to meet.” It was a process, says DeVito, that took several months and included research, legalities and paperwork. DeVito wanted to make sure the dogs she received were healthy and had sound temperaments—good, worthy dogs that she could place in homes. In turn, Kinder wanted to ensure the dogs were going to a safe facility that would find them loving, permanent homes. But there was a hitch: The cost of getting dogs from one state to another is not nominal. In this case, the cost for getting 25 Chihuahuas from the west to east coast ran in the several thousands. Kinder approached Grey’s Anatomy actress Katherine Heigl, who founded the animal welfare organization Jason Debus Heigl Foundation, to see if she would fund the Chihuahuas’ passage. “Katherine Heigl is a sponsor of some of our dogs already at our regular rescue so I approached [the foundation] with the idea and they liked it,” says Kinder. Twenty of the dogs went to the Nashua Humane Society and the other five to Salem Animal Rescue League. Thanks to local media coverage of the Chihuahuas arriving at the airport, the public became aware of the Chihuahuas in need. Staff got the Chihuahuas settled and on the morning they became available for adoption, 40 people hoping to claim one of the 20 California lap dogs lined up two hours before the shelter opened. Within two hours, all the California Chihuahuas had found homes. “We had great success in the first transport,” DeVito says, as she prepares for a shipment of 22 more Chihuahuas and other small dogs. “The first transport was a trial because we wanted to make sure that everything was what we thought it would be. And I think it was what we thought it would be and more.” Such transfer programs will continue as long as sponsors are willing to help with flight costs, Kinder says. The spcaLA Chihuahuas were not part of the coast-to-coast transfer, but Bernstein says she was recently approached by two potential donors offering to help fund transfers. At press time no details had been worked out yet. Still, that’s good news because the Chihuahua overpopulation may take time to correct itself. “I think it’s going to be continuing,” Bernstein says. “As long as the demand is up, the suppliers will supply. The only way to stop this is for people to realize that there is no longer a demand. There are plenty of Chihuahuas already here. There’s no need to make more and distribute those first. Then the suppliers will have no purchasers and then they’ll stop.”
9. Vet is a great place to put up free to a good home. You can also use the paper under the pet section as well.