Meet Bubbles, the stray who came to stay at the Newport Beach Animal Shelter
Bubbles, a Chihuahua-pug mix who has been tapped as the mascot of the Newport Beach Animal Shelter, has uniforms, a tiny badge and her own police cruiser.
(Scott Smeltzer / Staff Photographer)
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The Newport Beach Animal Shelter wasn’t exactly looking for a mascot in Oct. 2019, when officers located a tiny stray female Chihuahua-pug mix hobbling around on nearby Mesa Drive — but that’s exactly what they got.
There was something not quite right about the little pooch, whose front paws angled outward in a Charlie Chaplin-like stance, turning her walk into a crooked and prancing gait, but they took her in and named her Bubbles for her sprightly personality.