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My Old Dog: Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts
My Old Dog Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts Author:Laura T. Coffey “No Dog Should Die Alone? was the attention — and heart — grabbing headline journalist Laura T. Coffey gave her NBC TODAY Show website story about photographer Lori Fusaro?s work with senior shelter pets. While generally calm, easy, and already house-trained, these animals represent the “highest-risk? population at shelters because adopters fear... more » their illness and death. Coffey and Fusaro answer this fear with the sweet, funny, true tales of “old dogs learning new tricks.? While perhaps slower-moving and a tad sleepier than puppies, these elders pose for selfies with Tina Fey, James Franco, and Lena Dunham; are adopted by elderly nuns — and George Clooney; and exemplify amazing stories of heroism and heart at Ground Zero, in war zones, and in law enforcement. They give inspirational, heartwarming lie to writer F. Scott Fitzgerald?s notion that “there are no second acts in American Lives.?« less