Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Hereos at a Country Animal Shelter

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Publication Date
2000-05-01
Pages
240
ISBN
9780156012881
Book Title
Lost and Found : Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Item Length
8 in
Publication Year
2000
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.7 in
Author
Elizabeth Hess
Genre
Pets, Nature
Topic
General, Animal Rights
Item Weight
160.2 Oz
Item Width
5.3 in
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
015601288X
ISBN-13
9780156012881
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038272727

Product Key Features

Book Title
Lost and Found : Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Animal Rights
Publication Year
2000
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Pets, Nature
Author
Elizabeth Hess
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
160.2 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

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Trade
LCCN
94-051650
Reviews
Hess has volunteered for the Columbia-Greene Humane Society for several years. Combining her obvious passion for such work with the skills she has learned as art critic for the Village Voice, she has produced a solidly written book that takes readers directly into the animal shelter. Like most shelters, the one featured here is short on money, staff, and time while long on abused and abandoned animals. Hess helps readers understand how and why the people who work in this field-both paid and volunteer-do what they do. She captures the frustrations of animal welfare advocates-too often confused with animal rights advocates-who feel trapped cleaning up the mess that the uncaring or irresponsible create while facing accusations from no-kill advocates. Anyone questioning the local animal shelter should read this book for an excellent standard of comparison. Recommended for all animal welfare collections.'Alicia Graybill, Lincoln City Libs., NE, For some people, animal shelters seem dark, desperate places. All terrified barks and frightened hisses, the shelter is the last stop for many an animal on what has too often been a painful journey. For others, the shelter is a place of hope, where the perfect dog or cat waits to be adopted. In her time spent volunteering at the Columbia-Greene Humane Society, author Elizabeth Hess discovered that shelter life couldn't be defined in such simple terms. In this "subterranean animal culture," life is a "complex mix of people and animals, emotion and ideology ... where life and death decisions are made as regularly as coffee."Hess, an arts journalist who has written for the Village Voice and the Washington Post among other publications, first visited the shelter to adopt a dog for her daughter. A "series of ramshackle buildings and a shabby trailer, surrounded by a few chickens and a couple of contented cats," the Columbia-Greene Humane Society grounds were humble at best. But what Hess found inside the shelter inspired her to write Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter. From the dog kennels and the cat rooms to a puppy mill raid and rides in the shelter ambulance, Hess introduces innumerable animals and humans who will inspire, educate, and break your heart. With more than 20 million animals ending up in shelters each year in the United States alone, Hess's demand to rethink our relationships with domestic animals couldn't have come at a better time. Perceptive, well-written, and utterly moving, Lost and Found is a rare find indeed. -, "Intelligent, warmhearted and deserving of attention."-the New York Times Book Review "Both joyful and terribly sad . . . Hess manages to write with the skill of a journalist, but also with the soul of a passionate animal lover, making Lost and Found a delight to read.", "Intelligent, warmhearted and deserving of attention."-the New York Times Book Review "Both joyful and terribly sad . . . Hess manages to write with the skill of a journalist, but also with the soul of a passionate animal lover, making Lost and Found a delight to read."-Boston Herald
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
636.08/32/0974739
Synopsis
Heartwarming stories and heartbreaking tragedies at an animal shelter are related in a marvelously reported, richly anecdotal, and profoundly moving account of what goes on behind the scenes (Newsweek). 9 photos.

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