We are obsessed with dogs, so seeing some of the 18 million homeless street dogs in Mexico broke our hearts. We have 5 rescue dogs in our family, and 1 (Mara) came from Anguilla, BWI through the Fly to Freedom Dog Rescue. We thought we should develop a similar program to help dogs from Mexico! We now have another dog (Salchicha) from Mexico, that was a success story from our rescue, that also inspires us daily to keep on rescuing. Our goal is to connect travelers with homeless puppies/dogs so they can transport the dogs back to the US to be adopted into loving homes. We work with rescue groups in Mexico such as Love at 2nd Sight/Amor a 2nda Vista in Guadalajara. They work tirelessly to rescue dogs from the streets, and they help us get them healthy and ready to fly. We have been able to place many dogs into their forever homes in the the US and even Canada. It may not make a dent in the 18 million street dogs needing homes, but each dog adopted is a life saved, and that is all we can ask for.
In Mexico, there are millions of dogs roaming the streets, most being treated poorly by strangers. They have no food, water, shelter, or anything they need to survive, atop sometimes being shooed away by strangers to get them off the streets. We have paired with several rescues in Mexico to take puppies who might not make it there to the US. One rescue, Cachorrlandia, has over 300 puppies in a small, barely sheltered area, and we are just trying to give them forever homes in the US, even if it is one dog at a time.