Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, and 3 RVs on Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Crafts, Hobbies & Home
Book Type: Hardcover
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Crafts, Hobbies & Home
Book Type: Hardcover
Say you and your wife live in California and you're moving to Maine. What do you do? You could hire a rental truck, hire a moving company, drive, fly...You have many options.
Say you, your wife, and your 25 large rescue dogs live in California and you're moving to Maine. What do you do? Well, as David Rosenfelt quickly discovered, you don't have many options at all. After many months of seeking answers, sifting through suggestions, and making plans, David, his wife Debbie, and eleven "new friend" volunteers rent two large and one medium RVs (without complete disclosure of their cargo to the rental agent). They load the dogs, a homemade portable dog park, tons of food and toilet paper, and head East.
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It all began with a blind date. Both David and Debbie were newly divorced and both felt the movie date went well, so David invited Debbie to continue on to dinner. She was agreeable but explained that she first had to go home to treat her dog's eye infection. David thought she might be trying to blow him off but, no, there really was a dog, Tara, who really did have an eye infection. David was a sports fan who liked dogs okay but had no desire to actually have one. Very quickly, though, he realized how much Debbie loved dogs and that, if he was going to spend time with her, he'd be spending it with dogs too.
After Debbie and David got married, their pack at home grew as they rescued dogs likely to be euthanized. Debbie's special loves were golden retrievers and older or special needs dogs. Somewhat to David's consternation, she "shopped" animal shelters, walking through them, saying, "I'll take this one. And that one, and that one..." They became well-known and well-respected in the rescue community.
Much of the book is spent describing the hilarious cross-country trip to Maine. The dogs and volunteers seemed to fare much better than David, who worried the entire trip. In the end, though, everyone made it safely to Maine and quickly settled into their new home.
Sprinkled throughout the book are brief vignettes of some of the dogs the couple has loved. Many of them are described as "the best dog ever". I would have liked these sections to be longer.
David and Debbie have an incredible love for dogs and David conveys that well in this delightful book. It would be wonderful to see many, many more people this devoted to rescue.
Say you, your wife, and your 25 large rescue dogs live in California and you're moving to Maine. What do you do? Well, as David Rosenfelt quickly discovered, you don't have many options at all. After many months of seeking answers, sifting through suggestions, and making plans, David, his wife Debbie, and eleven "new friend" volunteers rent two large and one medium RVs (without complete disclosure of their cargo to the rental agent). They load the dogs, a homemade portable dog park, tons of food and toilet paper, and head East.
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It all began with a blind date. Both David and Debbie were newly divorced and both felt the movie date went well, so David invited Debbie to continue on to dinner. She was agreeable but explained that she first had to go home to treat her dog's eye infection. David thought she might be trying to blow him off but, no, there really was a dog, Tara, who really did have an eye infection. David was a sports fan who liked dogs okay but had no desire to actually have one. Very quickly, though, he realized how much Debbie loved dogs and that, if he was going to spend time with her, he'd be spending it with dogs too.
After Debbie and David got married, their pack at home grew as they rescued dogs likely to be euthanized. Debbie's special loves were golden retrievers and older or special needs dogs. Somewhat to David's consternation, she "shopped" animal shelters, walking through them, saying, "I'll take this one. And that one, and that one..." They became well-known and well-respected in the rescue community.
Much of the book is spent describing the hilarious cross-country trip to Maine. The dogs and volunteers seemed to fare much better than David, who worried the entire trip. In the end, though, everyone made it safely to Maine and quickly settled into their new home.
Sprinkled throughout the book are brief vignettes of some of the dogs the couple has loved. Many of them are described as "the best dog ever". I would have liked these sections to be longer.
David and Debbie have an incredible love for dogs and David conveys that well in this delightful book. It would be wonderful to see many, many more people this devoted to rescue.
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