Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, and 3 RVs on Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure - Hardcover

Rosenfelt, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1250014697 ISBN 13: 9781250014696

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2013

Synopsis

David Rosenfelt's Dogtripping is moving and funny account of a cross-country move from California to Maine, and the beginnings of a dog rescue foundation

When mystery writer David Rosenfelt and his family moved from Southern California to Maine, he thought he had prepared for everything. They had mapped the route, brought three GPSs for backup, as well as refrigerators full of food, and stoves and microwaves on which to cook them. But traveling with twenty-five dogs turned out to be a bigger ordeal than he anticipated, despite the RVs, the extra kibble, volunteers (including a few readers), and camping equipment. Rosenfelt recounts the adventure of moving his animal companions across the United States with humor and warmth, and tells the tale of how he and his wife became passionate foster parents for rescue dogs, culminating in the creation of the Tara Foundation and successfully placing several thousand dogs with loving families.
An NPR Best Book of 2013

About this title

About the Author

DAVID ROSENFELT is the Edgar-nominated and Shamus Award-winning author of more than twenty Andy Carpenter novels, including One Dog Night, Collared, and Deck the Hounds; its spinoff series, The K-Team; the Doug Brock thriller series, which starts with Fade to Black; and stand-alone thrillers including Heart of a Killer and On Borrowed Time. Rosenfelt and his wife live in Maine with an ever-changing pack of rescue dogs. Their epic cross-country move with 25 of these dogs, culminating in the creation of the Tara Foundation, is chronicled in Dogtripping.

Reviews

Andy Carpenter, the lawyer-hero of several of Rosenfelt’s crime novels, is an unabashed dog lover who will go out on a limb to rescue a mutt in trouble. He gets that from his creator, who has amassed a large family of rescued dogs over the years—25 of them, to be exact, all of whom, as recounted in this frequently very funny book, were recently piled into three RVs and moved cross-country, from California to Maine. But this isn’t just the story of the world’s furriest road trip; it’s also the saga of how Rosenfelt met the woman who would become his wife and who, with her passion for dogs, changed Rosenfelt’s life in ways he couldn’t possibly have imagined. Fans of the Carpenter novels will recognize the author’s familiar writing style: relaxed and lightly funny but serious when the moment calls for it (as when Tara, Rosenfelt’s wife’s dog, dies: those pages will bring a tear to a dog-lover’s eyes). Spirited and absolutely absorbing reading for fans of canine capers—both fictional and otherwise. --David Pitt

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250014697
• ISBN 13: 9781250014696
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288