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Terri Crisp is the director of the Emergency Animal Rescue Service, a branch of the United Animal Nations. She traces her love for animals to her childhood when she often adopted stray cats and dogs. She experienced her first emergency animal rescue as a volunteer with the Humane Society of Santa mostra altro Clara Valley, California in 1983, saving animals trapped by a flood in Alvisto, California. When she discovered that most animal shelters and humane societies do not have disaster plans, she began using her vacation time and sick leave to work as an animal rescuer. She has rescued animals after the Exxon-Valdez oil spill, Hurricane Andrew, and the 1993 Missouri floods. Her book, Out of Harm's Way: The Extraordinary True Story of One Woman's Lifelong Devotion to Animal Rescue catalogs her attempts to save animals during these disasters. She has appeared on countless television shows, including the NBC Nightly News and the Oprah Winfrey Show, and her work has earned her numerous honors, such as ABC's "Person of the Week" and Reader's Digest's "Hero for Today." (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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- female
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No Buddy Left Behind, Terri Crisp in World Reading Circle (Febbraio 2013)
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The organizer of a major retriever of local animals in Iraq and Afghanistan that became critical to our troops. This is Not about military dogs trained to help our military discover IEDs but rather the animals who voluntarily took on the roles of protector, warning device, as well as providing an essential warming contact. Not the best written book and only from the viewpoint of the rescuer but a quick read.
This book was SO well written, and the stories so heartfelt that it was hard to give it anything other than five stars. We see so much these days about our Canine Service Animals, our Canine Veterans, but understand so little of what can happen to them when their service is done. This book explains the lengths that are gone to to bring those veterans home safely and does so by sharing the stories of the joys when the animals make it home. Don't read this book without a box of tissues handy.
This is such a great story about how military members fight to bring their animal companions him with them from war zones.
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- 4.5
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Of course, the whole undertaking proves enormously complex, requiring Terri to build contacts and relationships with US, Iraqi, and Kuwaiti military officers, government officials, airline employees, and transport companies. Once those relationships are in place, there's always another dog or cat, or three, or a dozen, dearly loved by American soldiers who've put their lives on the line for this country, and desperate need of private rescue because there's no way for the soldiers to take them out on military transports.
It isn't just the complexity. The Iraqi end of the effort is actively dangerous for everyone involved, for the pets, the soldiers, the Iraqis who help them, and Terri and anyone else who accompanies her into Iraq to pick up the animals. Even after they are out of Iraqi airspace, the animals aren't truly safe until they are on American soil. It's an exhausting, frequently terrifying, emotionally draining, but ultimately emotionally rewarding undertaking. Terri Crisp tells her story beautifully, and Nicole Vilencia narrates it beautifully, too.
Highly recommended.
I borrowed this book from a friend.… (altro)