Customs officers discovered a Chihuahua when they scanned the hand luggage of a male passenger arriving at Dublin airport yesterday afternoon.
The dog (shown above) had been smuggled from Bulgaria to the Spanish capital Madrid and then on to Dublin.
A Revenue spokesman said officers had “discovered a Chihuahua-type toy dog which had been placed in a small cage and hidden in a holdall bag. When Customs officers examined the luggage the image of a dog in a small cage appeared on the X-ray screen”.
The dog was later handed over to Department of Agriculture officials and is now in quarantine.