My Old Dog: Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts, by Laura T. Coffey
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My Old Dog: Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts, by Laura T. Coffey
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National Bestseller“No Dog Should Die Alone” was the attention-grabbing — and heart-stirring — headline of journalist Laura T. Coffey’s TODAY show website story about photographer Lori Fusaro’s work with senior shelter pets. While generally calm, easy, and already house-trained, these animals often represent the highest-risk population at shelters. With gorgeous, joyful photographs and sweet, funny, true tales of “old dogs learning new tricks,” Coffey and Fusaro show that adopting a senior can be even more rewarding than choosing a younger dog. You’ll meet endearing elders like Marnie, the irresistible shih tzu who has posed for selfies with Tina Fey, James Franco, and Betty White; Remy, a soulful nine-year-old dog adopted by elderly nuns; George Clooney’s cocker spaniel, Einstein; Susie, the funny little senior dog who got adopted by "Humans of New York" creator Brandon Stanton; and Bretagne, the last known surviving search dog from Ground Zero. They may be slower moving and a tad less exuberant than puppies, but these pooches prove that adopting a senior brings immeasurable joy, earnest devotion, and unconditional love.
My Old Dog: Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts, by Laura T. Coffey - Amazon Sales Rank: #47458 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.10" h x .90" w x 7.10" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
My Old Dog: Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts, by Laura T. Coffey Review “If you love dogs, or if you like dogs, or if you’ve ever heard of dogs, or if you’re from planet Earth, you will love this book.”— David Rosenfelt, author of Dogtripping and Lessons from Tara“A truly heartwarming celebration.”— Jackson Galaxy, host of Animal Planet’s My Cat from Hell“Pages and pages of … adorable dogs who found happiness in their golden years.” —PEOPLE.com“My Old Dog is a truly wonderful book....Every story reminds me just how resilient dogs are and how strong the human-animal bond can be.”— Victoria Stilwell, dog behavior expert and star of Animal Planet’s It’s Me or the Dog“Full of wonderful color photos, this beautiful work does a great job of advocating for adult and senior dogs.”— Library Journal“This book is a loving celebration of old dogs and of radiant souls that shine through aging eyes.”— Francis Battista, cofounder of Best Friends Animal Society"Demonstrates how meaningful it can be to give older animals . . . a second chance." — PARADE“My new favorite book. . . . Absolutely beautiful.” — Barkpost.com“This most amazing and inspiring book . . . will move you to tears of joy.” — Psychology Today“Readers who own and love their older canines will recognize themselves in the stories; those who have yet to experience life with a senior dog may no longer fear the responsibility but will instead welcome the rewards of opening their homes to these special companions.”— Publishers Weekly“This book is a wonderful tribute to our ‘sizzlin’ seniors’!”— Jill Rappaport, animal advocate and NBC News correspondent“If you love soulful seniors or you’re in need of a reminder of the wonderfulness of people (i.e. those adopting one of the many senior dogs in shelters), you’re going to love this book.”— Modern Dog“I fell in love with these dogs, and their stories serve to remind us that old dogs are like fine wine — they only get better with age. Four paws up!”— Dr. Robin Ganzert, president and CEO of American Humane Association“This exquisite, eye-opening book needs a place on every dog lover’s shelf.”— Maria Goodavage, New York Times–bestselling author of Soldier Dogs and Top Dog“Infused with vitality.” — Mashable.com“All of the dogs whose stories are told in My Old Dog will move you (off the couch, and over to your dog to give them a hug).” — Huffington Post“Outright heart-melting stories that’ll make you want to go adopt a senior dog. Like, right now.” — Upworthy.com“This is easily the best dog book I’ve read — ever.” — Kings River Life Magazine
About the Author Laura T. Coffey is a writer, editor, and producer for TODAY.com, the website of NBC’s TODAY show. An award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience, Laura has written and edited hundreds of high-profile human-interest stories. She lives in Seattle.Lori Fusaro is staff photographer at Best Friends Animal Society in Los Angeles and owner of Fusaro Photography, whose clients include BAD RAP, Guide Dogs for the Blind, k9 connection, Angel City Pit Bulls, and other animal-rescue organizations. She lives in Los Angeles.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful. I love dogs in general but found out what a treasure ... By Kathie in WV Got the book yesterday and did not want to put it down. I love dogs in general but found out what a treasure old dogs are while volunteering for a rescue back in 2007. That is when two wonderful elderly goldens came into my life and shared my home for their final years. They opened the door for several other seniors in the years since. Each one brings something special but they all share grace, dignity, wisdom and a heart full of love that one can only find in a rescued oldie. This book celebrates that, showcasing the stories of these wonderful souls and the incredible people that took a chance on them. The writing is wonderful and the photos amazing. Keep tissues close though because there will be tears, especially when you read some of the before stories. Great book!
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful. Portraits of perseverance and love By Cyril Hendricks We live in a throwaway society. We toss out our food wrappers, we wait in line to swap last year’s gadget for the latest model, we idolize pop singers barely past puberty. We’re ashamed to age.That’s why “This Old Dog” is so refreshing. As writer Laura T. Coffey points out in its forward, puppies are adorable, but they also tend to pee on the carpet and chew on your shoes. In contrast, older dogs like the ones we meet in this book are calm and grateful. We meet dogs of the famous (George Clooney’s black cocker spaniel, Einstein) and dogs who are famous themselves (Marnie, a charismatic shih tzu with a million Instagram followers). We meet heroic dogs (Bretagne, the last known surviving 9/11 search dog to have worked at Ground Zero) and hard-working ones (Duval, a certified therapy dog who does wonders with first-graders struggling to learn to read). And then there are the dogs that nobody wanted, like Remy, a 9-year-old pit bull who languished in a shelter until three octogenarian nuns took him in, a “match made in heaven.”Coffey, an award-winning journalist, reveals each of these canine characters with obvious compassion yet without sentimentality. She doesn’t strain to yank your heartstrings. She doesn’t need to; the unembellished details of these stories pack volumes of drama and pathos. And Lori Fusaro’s photos are similarly straightforward. These are not fuzzy greeting card pictures of cute puppies; they’re honest portraits of dogs with distinctive personalities only time can etch.The words and pictures come together to convey the many lessons older dogs have to teach us: about perseverance, about dignity, about service and, above all, about love.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful. The special superpower of dogs By Grant M. Menzies A few years ago, I paid a visit to SAINTS – Senior Animals In Need Today Society – a senior animal sanctuary in Mission, British Columbia. I had seen photos on social media of the elderly, abused and/or abandoned dogs, cats, rabbits, horses, cows, sheep, donkeys, chickens and other animals whose one great stroke of luck in unlucky lives was to be rescued and brought to this small, peaceful farm on the outskirts of Vancouver.I know from having worked in one that hospices are not simply places people go to die but places where dying people go to make the most of the time that remains to them—to savor, as poet Eugene Walter, wrote, the ripened heart of life, and make a luscious pickle of the rind. So do the animals at SAINTS. They are mostly elderly, they are mostly ill, but unlike most humans they make the most of each moment. Yet they approach their mortality and their bodily ills with an awareness that seems human. I will never forget Manny. A large, handsome mastiff in his day, he’d been abandoned in old age, and had landed at SAINTS, where he spent most of his time on a comfortable bed surrounded by canine friends. It would not be long now, yet when I approached him, he wagged his old tail, tried to lift himself to be petted, and with a groan lost control of his bowels. In his eyes was a shame and a regret, an embarrassment and even an anger, like an elderly veteran who believes his dignity compromised by an unretentive bladder. I caressed Manny’s face and told him whatever happened was all right, that he was a handsome, wonderful dog, that nothing his body might do would make us love him less. His struggle was moving, but what brings tears to me writing about this is the people who stepped up to help Manny—volunteers with courage as well as heart on their sleeves, comforting the elderly dog, lifting and cleaning him, telling him he was beautiful.SAINTS is one of the elderdog charities described in "My Old Dog: Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts", by Laura T. Coffey and photographer Lori Fusaro, a book that should be read by anyone concerned that there is a compassion deficit in this often painful world. Because while the back stories of elderly dogs left to fend for themselves, or dropped off at shelters or in plastic bags along freeways, seem evidence in plenty that humanity is going backwards at an ever-increasing and unhindered rate, "My Old Dog" proves that for every agent of darkness there are several angels of light. In conversational, direct prose, Coffey tells the stories of famous elderdogs—Bretagne, the last surviving search and rescue dog active at the World Trade Center on 9/11; Susie, the presiding deity of Brandon Stanton’s “Humans of New York”; Einstein, the love of George Clooney’s life. But there are also the complete unknowns. There is Akila, an 11 year old border collie-huskie mix who started out an untouchable and unwanted feral and ended up in the heaven on earth of Best Friends Sanctuary in Utah’s Angel Canyon, from which she was adopted by Bret and Stacey Chappell and, with patience and love, flowered into the happy dog she was always meant to be. There’s Remy, the 9 year old pit bull whom nobody wanted at a New York shelter—nobody, that is, except three elderly nuns who had lost their beloved companion dog and gone seeking, in their grief, a dog that could fill the emptiness in their hearts. “This is the one,” said Sister Veronica. “She just got right up there,” said another nun, Sister Virginia. “She said, ‘This must be my new family.’”What completes the magic of "My Old Dog" is the photographs, which must be seen to be believed. It is incredibly difficult to photograph an animal. Humans instinctively know what to do when a camera appears before them (some dodging it, others preening for it), but an animal has mercifully no knowledge or understanding of the technology which increasingly pervades our lives. They move, they are distracted, they are wary, all unpredictable variables. A few great photographers, like Isa Leshko, make magic of the moment when an animal’s soul as well as image are captured by the lens. Fusaro is one of these. Her photographs are, to begin with, gorgeously staged without appearing anything but spontaneous, rich with color and texture taking you instantly into the animal’s space. But above all, Fusaro makes magic with elderdogs’ eyes. You turn a page and the depth, shine and spirit of the gaze looking back at you will take your breath away, and maybe choke you up, too. (In fact, I showed one of these images to my rescue dog Freddie, and he started up and looked right back at it.) The love both Coffey and Fusaro have for these and all animals is apparent; the artistry fixes their impressions, in word and image, into what feels like a classic, one of those books that never leaves your library or coffee table, and can be turned to for the solace of knowing that there are some good humans to go along with the goodness personified by every old dog.“Some people think it might be too sad to adopt an older shelter dog,” writes Neko Case in "My Old Dog"’s Foreword. “But always remember the special superpower of dogs: they live in the moment. They live for today. They enjoy what they can enjoy right here and now.... This is just one of the many lessons we have to learn from them.”Go get this book, read it, learn, and love. And if you have an empty place in your heart that needs filling, check out the list of shelters in the back of "My Old Dog". The special superpower of dogs awaits you.Grant Hayter-Menzies, author of “From Stray Dog to World War I Hero: The Paris Terrier Who Joined the First Division” {Potomac Books, Nov. 2015)
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