FREE: RESCUING ROVER: Saving America's Dogs

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This book was purchased at a library sale after it was withdrawn from circulation. Except for the library label on the binding and on the front cover, it is in excellent condition! It is chock full of information (it was copyrighted in 2011), and is loaded with photographs (like the photographs on the front and back covers), and some of them will really pull at your heart strings! Happy Bidding!

Dogs have been our best friend for thousands and thousands of years, acting as companion, hunting partner, and protector in a relationship that has benefitted both parties. Nowadays, nearly 75 million dogs have homes with American families, where many sleep in our beds, accompany us to school, and eat our unwanted broccoli under the table. However, each year millions of dogs born in the United States have no place to live. Many of these animals find themselves in shelters, and many, if they are not adopted, are put to sleep.

Rescuing Rover takes readers into the heart of the dog overpopulation crisis. Covering puppy mills, pet stores, and backyard breeders, the author and photographer Raymond Bial does not shy away from the grim realities of this tragedy. Where do all these dogs come from? Why aren't there enough homes? Why should you not buy a pet from a pet store? What does it mean to be a puppy mill dog?

Raymond then takes readers into a local animal shelter and shares with them the ins and outs of daily life there. Who runs animal shelters? Where do the pets come from? How long do they stay? Who plays with the cats and feeds the dogs? And most important, how can you adopt one? With captivating images and in straightforward prose, Rescuing Rover is an introduction to what it is like to be a homeless pet in America, and a call to action to do something about the homeless pet crisis, one pet and one person at a time.