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Dogs of San Diego: Tiga's journey from Iran
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Tiga and her documents. Photos: Courtesy of Glenn Munlawin
Meet Tiga, another pup in our ongoing series on San Diego dogs.
The big picture: She made it here all the way from Iran and now lives her best life with reader Glenn Munlawin, who sent in her story.
Back story: In 2019, Munlawin went to the annual Grossmont Pet Adoption Day and visited a shelter that had dogs rescued from Iran.
- "At first, we did not find a match among the pups they had available, but after talking to the woman running the shelter, she presented Tiga to us, and we quickly fell in love," he told Axios.
- Tiga was 2 when she was adopted, and she has grown into a healthy San Diego girl.
"Now she's living her best life with our new pup, Sweetie, also a shelter dog, from Tijuana," Munlawin said.
Fast forward: Since the Iran war started, he said, he thinks often about the dogs there, along with Tiga's original owners. He hopes they're OK.
