96 guinea pigs, 50 abandoned chicks rescued in San Diego

There were 96 cobays newly rendered by an outdated owner. There were 50 baby chicks, abandoned in a post office by someone who ordered them but who failed to come.

And there were 28 kittens, 11 adult cats and five dogs, all taken from another shelter, a overcrowded system where potential pets were at risk of euthanasia. Oh, this does not count the abandoned horse given to them.

San Diego Humane Society had their hands full Thursday.

“It was a very busy day,” said spokeswoman Nina Thompson. She congratulated the organization’s “truly incredible staff” so that work brings animals into the refuge.

The refuge says that it took nearly 275 animals in a period of 24 hours. A typical day generally gives consumption of perhaps 60 to 100 animals, from wanders to people rendered by the owners.

A little work for an already exaggerated shelter for accommodation.

San Diego Humane Society started on Thursday welcoming cats and dogs with a Los Angeles refuge. Thompson said the San Diego Humane Society is a founding partner of a collaboration to support the Los Angeles refuge and proposed to take animals after learning that they were at risk of euthanasia.

It was a planned contribution. But what happened later in the afternoon was not: the outdated owner of several dozen guinea pigs contacted unexpectedly to get help. An Escondido campus admission team has entered into action, quickly sorting out and evaluating which animals may need immediate medical care. The guinea pigs were distributed to the four campuses of the agency’s shelter system.

The contribution of so many guinea pigs both tripled almost the population of small animals of the organization. The newly received guinea pigs will be sterilized or sterilized before being placed for adoption.

While the organization’s management team was at a conference call conference on Cobineée on Thursday, one of the directors learned that someone was going to deposit 50 chicks at the El Cajon campus. Apparently, someone had ordered that baby birds were sent by Utah post to the Logan Heights post office, but failed to recover them.

“We are very grateful to the job of the post office who thought of the well-being of these birds,” said Thompson. She also thanked the person who was at the post office at the time and proposed to drive the chicks on the County East website.

If the owner does not resume the chicks, he will present himself to adoption next week.

There would be another curve before the end of Thursday. The tribal police of a local reserve stretched out and asked if the San Diego Humane Society could take an abandoned horse. We don’t know the age of the mare, but she has weight insufficiency, said Thompson.

Thompson said the horse moved to the Escondido campus, where it will receive care.

Originally published: May 10, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.