Callie Clemens crawls through sewage systems to rescue dogs in Texas

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By Jesse O’Neill

July 30, 2023 | 10:07am

Roger Clemens’ animal-loving previous daughter-in-law has actually invested the last 4 days crawling through Texas sewage systems to rescue a litter of abandoned puppies.

Callie Clemens and her dog Giselle led a little group of volunteers through the city’s storm drains pipes after hearing reports of puppies whining underground in Houston, KHOU11 reported Friday.

Clemens, who was when wed to the previous Yankee and Red Sox pitcher’s kid Koby Clemens, had actually effectively rescued 2 of the black laboratory pooch pups, and was headed back to the drain system Saturday to discover the remainder of the litter.

“I can’t sleep knowing there’s puppies in here going to die,” Clemens informed the outlet.

“I know they’re still in there, I just think they’re further down,” she informed the regional station, which released video of her moving the drain grate in a property community and squeezing through the 24-inch entryway to the dirty system, equipped with simply a floodlight and her relied on pooch.

“It’s difficult to get in there. You have to be very small because not anybody can fit,” the lady, who is 5 feet high and spry, told The Daily Mail Saturday night.

“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.”

One obstacle that Clemens, a 2010 college graduate who established the not-for-profit group Paws Off The Streets, according to her LinkedIn, experienced is that the puppies are frightened of the rescuers. The 2 that were given safety at first scuttled away when they heard her coming through the foul-smelling, cockroach-infested waters.

“The puppies screamed. They got louder and ran away. We had to try and corner them. We ended up going more north,” the separated lady, who kept the popular name of her disgraced ex-father-in-law, explained.

“I saw them pretty quickly. They ran away, they were tiny.”

Clemens had actually never ever stopped working to find an abandoned animal in her 7 years of doing saves, she said, and informed the outlet she would not rest till the staying a couple of puppies was pulled to safety.

She likewise included that she would think about embracing the last puppy to be pulled from the system.

Widely thought about among the very best pitchers in Major League Baseball history, Roger Clemens invested the majority of his profession with the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. Koby Clemens is his oldest kid who played in the minors.

Callie Clemens’ rescue efforts highlight the epidemic of roaming animals in Texas’ biggest city.

Some one million roaming dogs and cats are said to be roaming the streets of Houston, a lot of them mistreated and left for dead, according to the documentary “For the Animals.”

The city of 2.2 million individuals does not have compulsory spay-neuter laws, worsening the issue.

Still, city authorities had actually provided assistance to Callie Clemens’ efforts by opening storm drains pipes and supplying engineers to help her, according to the report.

“I’m invested, I am hopeful and I remain optimistic,” she said.

“It’s very hard to get me to quit. I’m very passionate about it.”