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June 19, 2009

Crowd nearly stampedes for bargain Yorkies

A mob of nearly 100 people gathered this week at the Hillsborough County Animal Services building for a chance to adopt one of 23 rescued Yorkshire Terrier puppies, the Associated Press reports.

The doors opened just before 9 a.m. Thursday and all the dogs were gone by 10:15 a.m. Some people had actually spent the night in front of the building to make sure they got a dog.

Authorities had confiscated 62 Yorkies, ranging in age from 8 weeks to 6 years, during a raid of two locations in Tampa and Seffner last week.

Yorkies can normally cost as much as $1,000 each, but the cost of adopting any dog at the shelter is less than $100.

Another group of Yorkies is expected to be put up for adoption Friday at the Humane Society of Tampa Bay.

Photo of Yorkie, not one of the adoptable ones at the shelter, courtesy of Paul J. Everett's photostream on Flicker.

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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