Callie Clemens crawls through sewers to rescue dogs in Texas

Roger Clemens’ animal-loving former daughter-in-law has spent the last four days crawling through Texas sewers to rescue a litter of abandoned puppies.

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

Clemens, who was once married to the former Yankee and Red Sox pitcher’s son Koby Clemens, had successfully rescued two of the black lab mutt pups, and was headed back to the sewer system Saturday to find the rest of the litter.

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

“I know they’re still in there, I just think they’re further down,” she told the local station, which published footage of her moving the sewer grate in a residential neighborhood and squeezing through the 24-inch entrance to the filthy system, armed with just a floodlight and her trusted pooch.

 “It’s difficult to get in there. You have to be very small because not anybody can fit,” the woman, who is 5 feet tall 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 challenge that Clemens, a 2010 college graduate who founded the nonprofit group Paws Off The Streets, according to her LinkedIn, encountered is that the puppies are scared of the rescuers. The two that were brought to safety initially scampered 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 divorced woman, who kept the famous name of her disgraced ex-father-in-law, explained.

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

Clemens had never failed to locate an abandoned animal in her seven years of doing rescues, she said, and told the outlet she would not rest until the remaining one or two puppies was pulled to safety.

She also added that she would consider adopting the last pup to be pulled from the system.

Widely considered one of the best pitchers in Major League Baseball history, Roger Clemens spent most of his career with the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. Koby Clemens is his eldest son who played in the minor leagues.

Callie Clemens’ rescue efforts highlight the epidemic of stray animals in Texas’ largest city.

Some one million stray dogs and cats are said to be wandering the streets of Houston, many of them abused and left for dead, according to the documentary “For the Animals.”

The city of 2.2 million people does not have mandatory spay-neuter laws, exacerbating the problem.

Still, city officials had lent support to Callie Clemens’ efforts by unlocking storm drains and providing engineers to assist 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.”