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MY OLD DOG
Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts
A celebration through text and photographs of the happy endings for 20 dogs rescued from homelessness during their senior years.
“No Dog Should Die Alone” was the attention-and heart-grabbing headline journalist Laura T. Coffey gave her NBC TODAY Show website story about photographer Lori Fusaro’s work with senior shelter pets. While generally calm, easy, and already housetrained, these animals represent the “highest-risk” population at shelters because adopters fear their illness and death.
Coffey and Fusaro answer this fear with the sweet, funny, true tales of “old dogs learning new tricks.” While perhaps slower-moving and a tad sleepier than puppies, these elders pose for selfies with Tina Fey, James Franco, and Lena Dunham; are adopted by elderly nuns—and George Clooney—and exemplify amazing stories of heroism and heart at Ground Zero, in war zones, and in law enforcement.
Older dogs have so much to teach us about love, trust, forgiveness, and healing. The stories and photos in MY OLD DOG give inspirational, heartwarming lie to writer F. Scott Fitzgerald’s notion that “there are no second acts in American Lives.”
Laura T. Coffey is a self-avowed dog nut and a longtime writer, editor, and producer for TODAY.com, the website of NBC's TODAY Show. An award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience, she has written and edited hundreds of high-profile human-interest stories over the years. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, son, two senior dogs, and a giant 14-year-old cat.
Award-winning photographer Lori Fusaro works as a staff photographer at Best Friends Animal Society-Los Angeles and runs her own business, Fusaro Photography, with clients including DreamWorks Studios, Paramount Pictures and many animal-rescue organizations, including BAD RAP, Guide Dogs for the Blind, K9 Connection, and Angel City Pit Bulls. She also serves on the advisory council for HeARTs Speak, a group that connects artists with the animal-welfare community. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two dogs and two cats.
Coffey and Fusaro answer this fear with the sweet, funny, true tales of “old dogs learning new tricks.” While perhaps slower-moving and a tad sleepier than puppies, these elders pose for selfies with Tina Fey, James Franco, and Lena Dunham; are adopted by elderly nuns—and George Clooney—and exemplify amazing stories of heroism and heart at Ground Zero, in war zones, and in law enforcement.
Older dogs have so much to teach us about love, trust, forgiveness, and healing. The stories and photos in MY OLD DOG give inspirational, heartwarming lie to writer F. Scott Fitzgerald’s notion that “there are no second acts in American Lives.”
Laura T. Coffey is a self-avowed dog nut and a longtime writer, editor, and producer for TODAY.com, the website of NBC's TODAY Show. An award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience, she has written and edited hundreds of high-profile human-interest stories over the years. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, son, two senior dogs, and a giant 14-year-old cat.
Award-winning photographer Lori Fusaro works as a staff photographer at Best Friends Animal Society-Los Angeles and runs her own business, Fusaro Photography, with clients including DreamWorks Studios, Paramount Pictures and many animal-rescue organizations, including BAD RAP, Guide Dogs for the Blind, K9 Connection, and Angel City Pit Bulls. She also serves on the advisory council for HeARTs Speak, a group that connects artists with the animal-welfare community. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two dogs and two cats.
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