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RESCUING PENNY JANE
One Shelter Volunteer, Countless Dogs, and the Quest to Find Them All Homes
Written with the pacing of a novel, this unforgettable journey into the special world of rescue and shelter dogs, a world more and more people care deeply about, is a book that dog lovers and MARLEY AND ME fans everywhere will take to heart and treasure.
Meet tiny terrified Penny Jane, brassy, filthy Dixie Lou, doofy befuddled Brodie, hopeless Happy, cruddy Spuddy, and cruising-for-a-bruising Dingo. These are not your average cute and cared-for pups they are shelter dogs, dogs with problems, scared dogs, crazy dogs, aggressive dogs, dogs so painfully shy that they can't look you in the eye, dogs who have languished so long without attention that they can't learn to bond with people.
But once you've come to know them in RESCUING PENNY JANE, best-selling author Amy Sutherland's wonderfully touching, funny and insightful new memoir of her ten years volunteering at a Boston shelter and adopting two rescue puppies, you will be rooting for each and every dog to discover that the right person can give them love and a whole new life.
Hoping to do good after the shock of 9/11, Amy started helping out at a shelter and ended up joining an elite crew of volunteers who train difficult dogs at the Boston Animal Rescue League. As Amy soon found out, working with shelter dog is not all face licks and walks in the parkit's playing tug of war for hours with a pent up pit-mix, it's wondering if your outing will end with canine jaws latched onto your thigh, it's bring home needy dogs for sleepovers that never involve any sleep. But as Amy found success in helping even the most discouraged, troubled dogs adapt, change and emerge adoptable, she knew she had found her life's calling.
Along the way, Amy will reveal a wealth of practical tips, such as how to read dog body language, handle behavior problems and how to select a shelter dog. She will also report on the work of vets and expert dog researchers in the field and the mavericks and groups who are leading the way to a goal of ending animal abandonment within a decade.
The time is right for this book. Rescuing dogs has, at last, become hugely popular. Some 20 million people adopted dogs from shelters and rescue organizations last year, an all-time high and a number that keeps going up. Amy has a mission that she wants to share with readers: how can we do better by dogs? how can we find abandoned dogs more homes? what needs to change? She aims for this book to be the answer as it's not only her story, but theirs.
Amy Sutherland is the author of three books, What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love and Happiness: Lessons for People from the Animals and Their Trainers (Random House, 2008); Kicked, Bitten and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers (Viking Press, 2006), and Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America (Viking Press, 2003), a finalist for the International Association of Culinary Professionals awards. She has written for publications such as The New York Times, Boston Globe, Smithsonian, and Preservation and extensively about dogs for Bark Magazine.
But once you've come to know them in RESCUING PENNY JANE, best-selling author Amy Sutherland's wonderfully touching, funny and insightful new memoir of her ten years volunteering at a Boston shelter and adopting two rescue puppies, you will be rooting for each and every dog to discover that the right person can give them love and a whole new life.
Hoping to do good after the shock of 9/11, Amy started helping out at a shelter and ended up joining an elite crew of volunteers who train difficult dogs at the Boston Animal Rescue League. As Amy soon found out, working with shelter dog is not all face licks and walks in the parkit's playing tug of war for hours with a pent up pit-mix, it's wondering if your outing will end with canine jaws latched onto your thigh, it's bring home needy dogs for sleepovers that never involve any sleep. But as Amy found success in helping even the most discouraged, troubled dogs adapt, change and emerge adoptable, she knew she had found her life's calling.
Along the way, Amy will reveal a wealth of practical tips, such as how to read dog body language, handle behavior problems and how to select a shelter dog. She will also report on the work of vets and expert dog researchers in the field and the mavericks and groups who are leading the way to a goal of ending animal abandonment within a decade.
The time is right for this book. Rescuing dogs has, at last, become hugely popular. Some 20 million people adopted dogs from shelters and rescue organizations last year, an all-time high and a number that keeps going up. Amy has a mission that she wants to share with readers: how can we do better by dogs? how can we find abandoned dogs more homes? what needs to change? She aims for this book to be the answer as it's not only her story, but theirs.
Amy Sutherland is the author of three books, What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love and Happiness: Lessons for People from the Animals and Their Trainers (Random House, 2008); Kicked, Bitten and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers (Viking Press, 2006), and Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America (Viking Press, 2003), a finalist for the International Association of Culinary Professionals awards. She has written for publications such as The New York Times, Boston Globe, Smithsonian, and Preservation and extensively about dogs for Bark Magazine.
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