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Rover's Rescues: True Stories of Shelter Dogs and Second Chance
Joy Lee
Paperback. Xlibris Corporation 2009-08-03.
ISBN 9781441554932
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Publisher description
Rover s Rescues...Book Summary
Millions of healthy, adoptable animals are surrendered to shelters and animal control facilities across the country every year. The reasons are many...strays, abandoned pets and victims of abuse and neglect, but also well-loved companions whose owners can t care for them any longer. Citizens for Animal Protection (CAP) is one of the major shelter facilities in the Houston, Texas area, and has one of the highest adoption rates in the city. Many thousands of homeless pets pass through their doors each year, over 400, 000 since their founding in 1972.
Through a unique relationship between CAP and Rover Oaks Pet Resort in Katy, Texas, Rover Oaks is able to offer training and foster care services to a number of CAP dogs who might otherwise be faced with euthanasia due to health or behavior issues. Rover Oaks employees and employee friends and family members have also frequently adopted these fur-kids!
Rover s Rescues...True Stories of Shelter Dogs and Second Chances tells the tales of twenty-five canine visitors to our facilities. Each one has his or her own sad story as to how he or she came to be a guest at CAP and/or Rover Oaks...each one has his or her own quirks and personality traits...each one had his or her own challenges to becoming adoptable ...and each one has his or her own happy ending!
Intertwined in the telling of these stories, you may find useful information about various common (and some not-so-common!) canine health and behavior problems and you may recognize some characteristics in your own furry children. You may also gain some insight into the potential challenges and rewards of adopting a rescued animal. For the millions who have done so, the majority will tell you that the rewards (though they may be down the road) and the undying love and devotion of these pets far outweigh the challenges!
Review:
A brief collection of heartwarming histories of dogs fostered and adopted through shelters founded and maintained by animal lovers in Houston.
Turbo, Scout, Scruffy, Merlin and Ike to name just a few are heroes of these happily ever-after tales,
which might have ended sadly were it not for Lee and her colleagues at Citizens for Animal Protection (CAP)
and Rover Oaks Pet Resorts. Turbo is a small black poodle who s so energetic that he bounces all over the furniture. Lee falls in love with him and takes him home. Later she discovers that he has ruptured ligaments in his knees, so he undergoes multiple surgeries, biopsies, physical therapy and acupuncture. Scout is a pit bull
mix with remarkably sad eyes, found wandering the streets. Many shelters will not take pit bulls because of their bad reputation, but Scout finds a foster home at CAP and a good Samaritan willing to pay for his medical needs. He has heartworm as do many strays and needs to undergo lengthy treatments and be kept quiet and
isolated. Keeping him calm turns out to be a challenge, since he tries repeatedly to climb out of his enclosure. After eight months he is finally adopted by a family experienced in working with pit bulls. All the dogs have medical and/or behavior problems and all require investments of love and patience and, of course, time and money if they are to become happy, well-adjusted family pets. The stories are well told, and the dogs and their circumstances are different enough to hold the reader s interest. Also of interest are the comments about the challenges associated with different breeds, and with rescue animals in general, since many have been abused or neglected and have developed antisocial behaviors.
Those who foster and care for these shelter dogs and the families who adopt them, work with them and refuse to give up on them are inspiring. A charming, useful book of special interest to dog lovers.
-- Kirkus Discoverie
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