Within minutes of wrangling her from swerving cars, we checked to see if this mutt was chipped. Nope. So we cleaned her up and now Pippi is clearly part of the DBDG team. Miel, right, was also found on the downtown streets. She’s none to pleased to be sharing.
Pippi’s first seconds in our DBDG car. We were on our way out of Skid Row after serving when we saved her in the midst of fast-moving traffic.
Safe in the suburbs…. After all The primping, No wonder pippi found her way to the bed!
YEs, her collar says “Dinky” but that was Day one. Now pippi is a permanent part of the DBDG Doggie Crew. Up next, learning to sit and STay. She already knows how to nap and kiss!
Though DBDG isn’t really in the business of saving pups, this Skid Row to the Suburbs Success Story
My volunteer and I are driving home from a Sunday Skid Row run ……. toward the freeway and we see this tiny thing run off the sidewalk and dart through six lanes of traffic.
I pulled over, put on my hazard lights on and jumped into traffic myself, waving to stop cars in both directions as Pippi weaved in fear. A homeless gentleman on a bike stopped and helped me wrangle Pippi into the corner of the Coca Cola bottling plant parking lot.
After five minutes of darting and cutting back, all three of us were out of breath. Pippi was finally cornered, frightened and eventually submitted to letting me pick her up.
She let me get close enough to put my fist on the ground, near her nose. I wasn’t sure if she’d bite. She didn’t. She let me open my palm and move towards her, all the way to the point where she allowed me to pick her up. I wrapped her in my sweater, ran back to the car and off we went!
She wasn’t chipped. We couldn’t find an owner. So by default and out of uncontrolled love, Pippi is now part of the DBDG doggie brigade.
During our weekly Drive-By runs in Skid Row, often we see our homeless neighbors with pets. They use them for warmth, companionship, love and security. When we get donations of pet food, we pass those out, too.