Is This It X

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This story makes me legitimately sad.

Chihuahua Club of America President Lynnie Bunten tells the (always dependable) National Enquirer that Paris Hilton is to blame for the high levels of Chihuahuas in California animal shelters.

“Chihuahuas are not a toy or a fashion accessory,” Bunten says.  “But because some people think they are – then realize they’re wrong – there’s a growing problem of abandoned Chihuahuas.”

In fact, animal shelters in Santa Barbara have banned girls 21 years or younger from getting the tiny dog because they were seeing so many get rid of their dogs because they couldn’t take care of them.

Though Hilton’s presence in the tabloids with her diminutive dog was one of the first to start this trend, many celebrities have copied it and continue to carry around their dogs in the purses or handbags.  Which is fine. But what normal people don’t realize when they first buy a Chihuahua is that it costs a lot of money to keep a dog.  There are shots, food and a load of other costs involved.

Getting a dog is a lot like having a kid in that one has to go through their budget to figure out if it’s something they can financially support.

Oh yeah, and dogs have to piss and shit.  Let’s not forget that.  If you carry around a dog in your purse all day, you’re eventually going to be carrying around a purse full of shit.  The next day, the purse will smell, and then you’re probably going to sour on the idea of carrying around a Chihuahua.

Which is too bad, because then the Chihuahuas are taken to the animal shelter/pound and killed.  Whether that’s drugged or gassed is up to that particular shelter.  But they’re killed because, in essence, people want to be more like a girl who’s famous because her family’s rich and she was in a crappy porno. 

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