In what is perhaps the best find in mall security history... On October 12, nine puppies were found outside of the PAWSH Pet Boutique in the Park Place Mall. A guard stumbled upon ^ these ^ cuties in a plastic tub.
All the puppies were infected with mortal puppy disease, parvo. (Learn more about it here. It's why people are scared to, and probably shouldn't, bring their puppies to dog parks.)
One puppy died. The other eight puppies spent weeks fighting the disease, while the Humane Society of Southern Arizona spent thousands of dollars to save them.
They're unbelievably cute -- seriously. One looks like a shrimpy German Shepherd, while the another looks like a fluffy, blue-eyed, Old English Sheepdog. Some siblings looks more alike than others, which is true for humans too, I guess.
Tucson was captivated by this story. WHO could dump THESE faces without a trace?! Someone who didn't anticipate, and couldn't afford, nine deathly-ill puppies. No security photos were ever released, so I guess we'll never know. The culprits must have had some conscience; they dumped them at a puppy store.
Their loss. Now the eight surviving parvo puppies are healthy and placed in loving homes, thanks to the Humane Society of Southern Arizona. Spokeswoman Andrea Mitchell told GMT (see video below) HSSAZ usually spends more than $900 per parvo case.
What's that, you say? You want one of these precious pups for your very own home?
HA. You and everyone else.
The puppies were such a story in the Old Pueblo, HASSAZ had to raffle them off because of a multitude of adoption applications!
The morning they were sent off with their forever homes, the fab four female parvo puppies stopped by the Good Morning Tucson studios to promote Giving Tuesday and the Forgotten Fund. The generosity of people in Tucson saved the lives of these pups.
Check it out. I dare you not to swoon.
