Lick: Wow! What year was this? Do you remember? Carmen: 2009 Lick: Wow! Carmen: I will send you all the materials. Lick: I had no idea .. I just thought you were fabulous from the minute I saw you.. You are very beautiful, the dogs are so well cared for and so adorable and obviously you love them so much. I was drawn to that. They’re such an important part of your life and they are so fashionably dressed. So when you said you were involved with Chihuahuas, I thought you were involved with “rescuing Chihuahuas.” Carmen: When I started coming to LA and to Beverly Hills I felt this is where I was going to live. This is the place! I was so lucky that I could be transferred to LA because the Spanish Tourism and Trade Commission is here. I share my official job with them and in the afternoons I am totally concentrated on my dogs my “Chihuahua’s Beverly Hills” and my TV project. Lick: So you said you were interested in or doing a TV thing? What is that about? Carmen: I have a Masters in Executive TV Production and created my own show about pets. But when I was in Spain and showed them my project they said “Carmen, we love it, but Spain isn’t ready for it yet.” When I came to the US, people here absolutely loved it. And I am hot on it. I am working really hard to see if we can make this dog project happen. My dogs Barbara, they are my life. I am so calm right now because my dogs are with me. Imagine my situation, my dad just passed away and was buried a couple of hours ago and I am 10,000 miles away from home. I am totally by myself here. The only thing I have are my two chihuahuas. My two babies. They are my life and they are my emotional support animals. To that point, they know what is going on and they have been so tender to me these days. You know, like we are here to support you. It makes me want to cry. I don’t know what I would do without them. Because what would my life be without them (holding back tears). Lick: They are absolutely beautiful and I feel the same way you do.
Carmen: I owe them and all the dogs that I have had throughout my life, the 100% happiness they have given me. Happiness that no boyfriend, no husband has “ever” given me. I trust dogs. I trust my dogs more than any person in the world because they are 100% loyal, their love is unconditional. Everyone asks me, “why are you so happy all the time? You don’t have kids, you don’t have a husband.” Lick: Hahahahahaha HA! Carmen: “You don’t even have a Boy Friend!!” Lick: Ahhhh, that’s funny, I have friend whose dog rules her life and she’s like “Oh, you know so and so, I had to take him for a haircut” and it sounds like a man she’s talking about, but it’s a dog. Every guy that tries to get into her life has to compete with the dog. And I say, “God help the poor man who falls in love with her because the dog will bark him right out of the bed.” Carmen: Of course, And You know what Barbara .. if my Carmen: I don’t like them either. They can sense the feeling. They can see things that you and I can never ever see. Lick: That’s true. Very very very true. Carmen: You asked me if men are “jealous”? Well.. “ OF COURSE THEY ARE”! Lick: You can’t blame them. I hope that you still find someone and have a little room for them besides the animals. I mean, I still love animals and feel the way you do. I think a lot of times in life people have been hurt by other people and even appreciate animals more because there is that great loyalty and devotion that most people don’t know how to give. It’s sad. dogs don’t like somebody...? Lick: “That’s it!!” (laughs) You know 75 percent of the dogs in the world live on the street. Most of them, do not have the exceptional life that you give your dogs, or I give my dogs. A very tragic situation. Carmen: But Darth Vader (Carmen’s other Chihuahua) is the story from “Hell to Beverly Hills.” Darth Vader was a rescue dog who was saved the day he was about to be put down.
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