Callie Clemens had spent four days leading a team of volunteers through the city’s cockroach-infested, foul-smelling sewers to rescue abandoned puppies.
Roger Clemens’ animal-loving former daughter-in-law has spent the last four days crawling through Texas sewers to rescue a litter of abandoned puppies.
Callie Clemens and her dog Giselle led a small team of volunteers through the city’s storm drains after hearing reports of puppies whimpering underground in Houston,Clemens, who was once married to the former Yankee and Red Sox pitcher’s son Koby Clemens, had successfully rescued two of the black lab mutt pups, and was headed back to the sewer system Saturday to find the rest of the litter.
“It’s difficult to get in there. You have to be very small because not anybody can fit,” the woman, who is 5 feet tall and spry,“There’s no way the puppy can get out by itself so it’s up to us and I have no shame to go down and get it.” Callie Clemens led a small team of volunteers through the city’s storm drains after hearing reports of puppies whimpering.City officials have lent support to Callie Clemens’ efforts by unlocking storm drains and providing engineers to assist her.One challenge that Clemens, a 2010 college graduate who founded the nonprofit group Paws Off The Streets, according to her LinkedIn, encountered is that the puppies are scared of the rescuers.
“The puppies screamed. They got louder and ran away. We had to try and corner them. We ended up going more north,” the divorced woman, who kept the famous name of her
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