On New Year’s Eve 2016, Bobby Humphreys’s wife handed him divorce papers after 17 years together and left. A week later, he tore his shoulder at the gym. He started drinking. An intense depression took over his life.
What kept him going was a friend named Connie, who simply refused to disappear. When she was kicked out of her house and couldn’t take her chihuahua Lady with her, Bobby took her in without thinking much about it. He, who had always mocked men with small dogs, discovered that the only thing that still gave him something like joy was spending time with that bad-tempered dog.
Then came Kira, with aggression issues. Then Harley and her sister Queen, rescued from terrible conditions. Then Bella, with nails so long they had curled back toward her own paws. Bobby couldn’t stop. In October 2018, his house officially became the Big Guy, Littles World sanctuary, which today is home to 99 chihuahuas and one cat. Every night he sleeps surrounded by the 20 smallest and most fragile ones.
