Merced County community comes together to care for over 80 neglected chihuahuas

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Rescuers person present saved 80 chihuahuas from 1 of 2 homes successful Ceres, wherever they accidental hoarding created deplorable conditions.

Friday, Founder and President of New Beginnings for Merced County Animals, Sharon Lohman, received an email asking for assistance uncovering homes for 30-50 chihuahuas.

New Beginnings took to societal media to inquire the assemblage for its help, but it lone resulted successful uncovering much animals successful request of rescuing. By Tuesday, Lohman became alert of astir 100 dogs trapped successful hoarding situations successful 2 abstracted Ceres residences, 80 of them successful conscionable 1 home.

"They're terrified. They person nary idea... each they deliberation is that you are going to wounded them," said Lohman, who has been moving straight with the rescues since they were discovered.

Lohman said astir each of the dogs person decayed teeth, which tin interaction their quality to eat. To compensate, New Beginnings partnered with Valley Animal Hospital successful Merced to supply the dogs much-needed care.

But the veterinarians treating them said the dental enactment unsocial could outgo up to $3,000 per dog, fto unsocial immoderate infections oregon different wellness issues they fearfulness the chihuahuas whitethorn have.

A pet-owner astatine the carnal infirmary approached Action News to inquire astir the communicative connected Tuesday. After proceeding the details, she was truthful moved that she instantly pulled retired currency and handed it to the receptionist.

Meanwhile, New Beginnings said astir 30 families stepped up to foster the dogs aft proceeding astir what they had been through.

"They're conscionable not successful bully shape. And they're truthful traumatized," said foster Katie Burns. "We haven't had a canine for a mates of years, but these dogs request a place."

Lohman said the community's effect has reinstated her religion successful radical aft seeing the horrors that truthful galore animals person been done this year.

"It's conscionable heartbreaking due to the fact that we springiness our lives to assistance these animals. And past we spot radical who just... they spot them arsenic spot and arsenic a problem, and they conscionable get escaped of them," she said. "To spot these radical travel with smiles connected their faces and who privation to beryllium a portion of thing good, it shows you that determination are some sides of humanity."

If you privation to assistance enactment aesculapian attraction for these dogs oregon find them imperishable homes, Lohman said you tin telephone the Valley Animal Hospital successful Merced apical donate to New Beginnings' aesculapian account. You tin besides donate straight to New Beginnings here, oregon store for their Amazon wishlist.