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| Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter | 
 enlarge | Author: Elizabeth Hess
Publisher: Harvest Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 516706
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 015601288X
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.08320974739
EAN: 9780156012881
ASIN: 015601288X
Publication Date: April 17, 2000
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 Riveting; Highly Recommended November 10, 2008
Lost and Found is an eye opening and heart-felt book that looks at the inner world of an animal shelter.
For years Elizabeth Hess volunteered at an extremely humane animal shelter in New York. In this book she describes in detail, the inner workings, the day to day operations of the animal shelter. Many of the people that work in shelters, do so strictly for the love and welfare of the animals. This shelter, like many others is short on money and staff, but long on abandoned and surrendered animals. She describes in detail the many myths and misconceptions people have about shelter pets --they are not animals with behavior problems; a good percentage are purebreds.
More than 20 million animals end up in US Animal Shelters each year. Many of the cats and dogs (and some rabbits, ferrets, birds etc) came to the shelter from loving homes, mostly because their owners were no longer able to keep or care for them. As the author put it, "when a crazy dog arrives at the shelter, there is usually a crazy owner at the end of the leash".
I had volunteered at our local no-kill shelter for several years, and found most of what the author says to be true about the staff, animals , and the individuals who adopt and surrender animals. In my opinion, shelter animals often make the best pets. Every cat we ever adopted from the shelter was so grateful to be with us, and showed their love and affection daily, in return for a second chance at life.
My recommendation -- read this book and --think about adopting a shelter pet, and saving a life at the same time. You will be glad you did.
 Just couldn't get into it September 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love dogs. I've got three of my own, two are rescues. I've been reading alot of "dog stories" lately and I just couldn't get into this one. I didn't even finish the book because it just wasn't drawing me in the way that some others have. Based on the other feedback, I seem to be the rare exception. Maybe I've just been reading too many dog books lately. Maybe I'd appreciate it more and enjoy it more if I wasn't thinking about how much better some of the others were.
 Before you buy a pet, read this May 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The best place to get a pet is from a shelter, and if you read this book, you will learn why. I have always gotten my pets from shelters, but did not know the behind-the-scenes story until I read this (and a few others). Ms. Hess writes for the general reader, and is a bit less introspective than I would have liked, but her information is sound. In fact, I would recommend this book to teenagers, precisely because it is not too high-brow. Today's kids are tomorrow's pet owners, and it is important to educate them in the realities of pet overpopulation, puppy mills, and the fact that pets are not designer accessories, but living beings who require more than some kibble and water.
Insightful and thought provoking May 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I highly recommend this book to anyone considering a pet. It makes you think about what repercussions are possible if you obtain a pet on a whim and do not dedicate yourself to training and caring for it. It shows the results of our society's "throwaway" mentality, the lack of education on the effects of pet overpopulation and the way our declining economy has added to the problem by not allowing many citizens the money to afford proper pet care and sterilization.
This books shows a cross section of a typical animal shelter and the fact that there are many not so happy endings, mostly because of humans and their failure to do right by their pets.
A very realistic view of an animal shelter November 19, 2002
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I've volunteered at the animal shelter in my town for a few years now, but have never had quite as much insight as this book provided. I get the feeling the shelter in the book has a smaller volunteer base than the shelter I have dealt with based on the details they were willing to share with her. This was a very uplifting book that explained a lot about why shelters work the way they do (ie rules about who can adopt, what happens when they get lost pets, etc.). Unfortunately, it is most likely to be read by the people that already understand these rules and why they exist.
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