{"product_id":"rethinking-rescue-dog-lady-and-the-story-of-americas-forgotten-people-and-pets-9781640095984","title":"Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Lori Weise's heroic work keeps animals with the people who love them.\" --Danny Trejo, actor, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eTrejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Los Angeles's most underserved communities, Lori Weise is known as the Dog Lady, the woman who's spent decades caring for people in poverty and the animals that love them. Long before anyone else, Weise grasped that animal and human suffering are inextricably connected and created a new rescue narrative, an enduring safety net empowering pet owners and providing resources to reduce the number of pets coming into shelters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets \u003c\/i\u003eunites the causes of animal welfare and social justice, moving between Weise's story and that of the U.S. rescue movement: from the dog's twentieth-century transition from property to family to the rise of the no kill campaign to stop shelter euthanasia and the contradictions that hampered those efforts. Through captivating storytelling and investigative reporting, Carol Mithers examines the consequences of bias within this overwhelmingly white movement, where an overemphasis on placing animals in affluent homes often disregards pet owners in poverty. Weise's innovative and ultimately triumphant efforts revealed a better way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRethinking Rescue\u003c\/i\u003e boldly confronts two of the biggest challenges of our time--poverty and homelessness--in asking the very humane question, Who deserves the love of a pet?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Counterpoint LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781640095984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Carol Mithers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44337898356917,"sku":"9781640095984","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2be40aa5-c855-4765-8500-e85968cbbaa8.jpg?v=1719329698","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/rethinking-rescue-dog-lady-and-the-story-of-americas-forgotten-people-and-pets-9781640095984","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}