Saved: Rescued Animals and the Lives They Transform - Hardcover

Winegar, Karin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0738212768 ISBN 13: 9780738212760

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2008

Synopsis

Phil, ailing and unemployed, took an orphaned fawn into his trailer and now walks the woods with the devoted stag. “I don't know what I'd do without Li'l Buck,” Phil declares simply. “I guess I'd be crazy.”

Walt, a retired pipe fitter, says, “Animals...take your heartache away. I lost my boy to drugs and my horse saved my life—just through the therapy of riding.”

Don and Lillian devote their time advocating for animal rights and bringing home lost animals. According to Don, “Emotionally, it's an endorphin rush to be with [the animals]. On the metaphysical level, they give us meaning in life.”

With these and many other compelling, heartfelt stories, Saved, in the words of Rita Mae Brown, “proves once again that love rescues us all.”

About this title

About the Author

Karin Winegar is an award-winning journalist who has written for many magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Judy Olausen's New York Times bestseller, Mother, was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, NPR, and the Today show, and in People and Harper's magazines.

They both live in Minnesota.

Reviews

The world is full of starving, abused animals. It is also full of people who need a loving friend. How these two worlds come together and the positive changes rescued animals have made to the people who open their hearts to them are the focus of this genuinely heart-warming collection of stories. As Jane Goodall states in her introduction, around the world, the therapeutic power of animals is being recognized, and this truism is borne out by uplifting testimonies. As the author says, what rescued animals do best is forgive and provide love. Cimmaron, a Thoroughbred who survived a horrific accident in a horse trailer, is now one of the prized therapy horses at a stable for handicapped riders. Randy Grim and his canine pal Quentin, who survived a euthanasia attempt in a gas chamber, cruise the streets of East St. Louis rescuing dogs and cats amid urban decay. Parrots, perpetual three-year-olds armed with a sharp object—and living up to 80 years—are expensive and routinely abandoned pets, 1,400 of whom have been rescued and re-homed by Eileen McCarthy. Beautifully illustrated with Judy Olausen’s photographs. --Nancy Bent

Edition details

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738212768
• ISBN 13: 9780738212760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240