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Angel Animals Story of the Week -- Special Edition
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Allen Anderson
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Sep 14, 2006 09:30 PDT
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Angel Animals Story of the Week -- SPECIAL EDITION
September 6, 2006
Visit us at www.angelanimals.net
Dear Friends of Angel Animals,
Welcome to a special edition of the Angel Animals Story of the Week.
We want to more thoroughly introduce you to our new book, RESCUED:
Saving Animals from Disaster. Because it contains messages and
information that we believe are vitally important for saving the lives
of people and animals, we are offering a special edition of our weekly
newsletter.
If saving animals' lives is important to you, we ask that you become a
champion for this book and its messages this week. Consider buying it
for yourself, family, friends, coworkers, and associates. Order it to
sell as a fundraiser for animal organizations or at animal shelter gift
shops.
RESCUED is designed to interest the general public in supporting animal
rescue with volunteerism and donations. The book contains interviews
with animal-loving celebrities -- Tippi Hedren, Rue McLanahan, Molly
Sims, Joe Mantegna, Tiffani Thiessen, Dee Wallace, Brigitte Bardot -- as
well as edge-of-the seat stories that involve Oprah Winfrey and Matthew
McConaughey. Its foreword is by US Senator John Ensign, named 2005
Legislator of the Year by the Humane Society of the United States.
Among hundreds of topics, RESCUED devotes chapters to:
*** busting through stereotypes of animal rescue volunteers and
organizations and putting to rest the notion that they only help animals
and not people
*** disaster preparedness for pets, farm, ranch, and zoo animals
*** how to train or choose a career in animal rescue
*** dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder in animal rescue
volunteers
*** the future of animal shelters, breed rescue, and sanctuaries
*** crucial lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina animal rescue efforts
*** sixteen pages of color photos that will make you feel as if you are
there in the midst of rescuing animals and feeling their gratitude.
You can read more at www.rescuedsavinganimals.net. The website includes
the Table of Contents and pointers for preparing your pets for
emergencies that we learned from our interviews with hundreds of animal
rescuers and disaster survivors. You can order RESCUED online right now
at Amazon.com.
Direct link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1577315448/ref=pd_rvi_gw_1/002-8783298-6859204?ie=UTF8
The featured story this week is from RESCUED. It comes from an
interview we did with Chris Cutter, communications director at the
International Fund for Animal Welfare. His story opens the book and the
hearts of readers.
We invite you to e-mail this week's newsletter in its entirety to others
who might enjoy it.
Animal blessings,
Allen & Linda Anderson
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STORY OF THE WEEK
Excerpted from RESCUED: Saving Animals from Disaster by Allen and Linda
Anderson. Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. Reprinted with
permission.
Days after the levees in New Orleans broke, Chris Cutter, communications
director for International Fund for Animal Welfare, worked on a boat
that maneuvered through toxic water. No one, human or animal, would
have wanted to spend a minute more than necessary in it. Chris recalls,
"We saw a dog swimming in the muck." Chris's boat steered toward the
dog. Instead of allowing the rescuers to help him into the vehicle, the
dog turned around and swam away from the boat. That's when they heard
barking coming from inside a house.
The rescuers steered to follow the dog. He led them to the back of his
house where a female dog, "his girlfriend," as Chris calls her, was
trapped inside. Only after the rescuers freed the female dog did this
big, shaggy husky allow the rescuers to haul him into the boat.
As the boat moved away one of the rescuers petted him, saying, "You're
such a good boy." Her hand jerked suddenly off the dog's head, as if
she had touched a sizzling stove. "My hand is burning," she told Chris.
"The dog could have saved himself," Chris says. "Instead, he swam off
so we would find his girlfriend. When you're dealing with things like
that, it's hard not to think that there's a validity in what you are
doing. That there is something bigger going on."
Indeed, something bigger was going on. The hurricanes of 2005 -- three
ferocious storms named Katrina, Rita, and Wilma -- precipitated the most
comprehensive animal rescue effort in history. Millions of animals were
stranded in ravaged cities and farmlands. They survived with the help
of thousands of people who risked their lives to save them.
BIO:
Allen and Linda Anderson are founders of the Angel Animals Network,
inspirational speakers, and authors of books about the benefits and
complexities of human-animal relationships. They and the publisher of
RESCUED are donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of this
book to animal rescue organizations.
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT:
When have you seen such love and devotion in an animal that it made you
realize there is definitely something bigger going on than any of us can
comprehend?
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RESCUED ENDORSEMENTS/REVIEWS
From Booklist:
"The volunteers who waded into the devastation left in Hurricane
Katrina's wake came in all sizes and shapes and redefined our notion of
hero. Many of these unlikely champions scooped endless shovels of poop,
distributed truckloads of food and clean water, and provided comfort and
kindness to animals whose world had blown apart. They worked against
Brobdingnagian odds: hundreds of thousands of frightened, starving
animals owners were forced to leave behind and little space in which to
care for the abandoned pets.
"Allen and Linda Anderson extensively interviewed the men and women who
came to rescue four-legged, finned, and feathered victims of Katrina.
The result is a treatise full of practical suggestions for dealing with
stranded animals, meeting their housing and medical needs, and,
ultimately, reuniting them with their owners. Aftermath stories will
change public policy, and every pet owner should read the Andersons'
book and develop their own private plan for the safety of their nonhuman
companions."
--Pamela Crossland, Copyright (c) American Library Association. All
rights reserved
"Animal rescue had a defining moment after Hurricane Katrina. Widespread
media coverage showing thousands of stranded animals helped to bring
about the largest animal rescue effort in history and raised the
public's awareness of the bond between the companion animal and his or
her human family. RESCUED serves as a reminder that saving animals'
precious lives is not only noble but also a moral imperative."
--Gretchen Wyler, vice president of the Humane Society of the United
States (Hollywood Office) and retired executive producer of the Genesis
Awards
"This book offers vital, in-the-trenches information for saving animals'
lives, gleaned from hundreds of animal rescue organizations, experts,
and volunteers. RESCUED inspires individuals, agencies, and the nation
to take care of animals when disaster strikes and to make rescuing
animals a vital part of healthy and enlightened communities. By relating
powerful animal rescue and reunion stories, the Andersons remind us all
to cherish the human-animal bond by preserving it. Read it and reap!"
--Dr. Marty Becker, resident veterinarian on GOOD MORNING AMERICA and
author of THE HEALING POWER OF PETS
"A must-read that I couldn't put down, RESCUED will move you to action."
--Marc Bekoff, professor of biology at the University of Colorado and
editor of the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
"American Humane applauds the Andersons' tireless efforts to pay homage
to the hundreds of individuals from scores of animal welfare groups who
gave so much to rescue the animal victims of Hurricane Katrina."
--Marie Belew Wheatley, president and CEO, American Humane Association
"Through firsthand accounts of the sweeping tragedy of Hurricane
Katrina, this indispensable primer on disaster response and support
networks melts away the notion that a cat or dog is anything less than a
family member."
--Jonathan Balcombe, author of PLEASURABLE KINGDOM: Animals and the
Nature of Feeling Good
"Compelling, fascinating, and most important -- highly moral."
--Ben Stein, author, actor, commentator
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PREVIOUS BOOKS:
ANGEL DOGS: Divine Messengers of Love, by Allen and Linda Anderson,
published by New World Library, with a foreword by Willard Scott.
RAINBOWS & BRIDGES: An Animal Companion Memorial Kit by Allen and Linda
Anderson, published by New World Library.
ANGEL CATS: Divine Messengers of Comfort
GOD'S MESSENGERS: What Animals Teach Us about the Divine
ANGEL ANIMALS: Exploring Our Spiritual Connection with Animals.
All of Allen and Linda's books are available at online or regular
bookstores, some Costco stores, and at many gift shops that sell animal
books. ANGEL CATS and ANGEL DOGS are also available through One Spirit
Book Club.
COMING SOON:
ANGEL HORSES: Divine Messengers of Hope by Allen and Linda Anderson, New
World Library (September 2006).
THIS WEEK'S LIVE RADIO INTERVIEWS
Visit www.rescuedsavinganimals.net/schedule.html to see this week's
interviews.
OTHER INFORMATION
The Angel Animals Network is devoted to collecting and disseminating
original, true stories about the spiritual connection between people and
animals. You can learn more about the Angel Animals at
www.angelanimals.net.
If you send this newsletter to others (and we hope that you will),
please don't change it in anyway and include the information above about
the Angel Animals Network. Thank you.
This newsletter is sent to you by the Angel Animals Network. Copyright
2006, Allen and Linda Anderson, Angel Animals Network. All rights
reserved. Nothing in this newsletter may be reproduced or published
without the written permission of the individual authors and/or
copyright owners. Angel Animals(r) is a registered trademark.
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