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Winner of Foreword Magazine's 2006 Bronze Award for Pet Book of the Year!
"Generosity and gratitude power this compelling account of the reciprocal nature of rescue. Ken Foster illuminates a profound lesson about saving a life: Doing it makes you able to do it."
--Amy Hempel, author of The Dog of the Marriage and Reasons to Live
"I read this at once, and could hardly bear to put it down. It delivers something crucial about bravery, the human spirit, and the place that dogs occupy in our landscapes. It's about confronting need, vulnerability, and love, and responding."
--Roxana Robinson, author of A Perfect Stranger and Georgia O'Keeffe
"Ken Foster writes about the human/canine bond with wisdom, insight, and great heart. This is a fascinating and useful book, full of great stories and practical knowledge. Ken's dogs are lucky to have found him, and so are his readers."
--Sean Wilsey, author of Oh the Glory of it All
"Foster's dogs are memorable, delightful characters, with vivid, poignant stories. The Dogs Who Found Me is a testament to the joys dogs bring, and to the beauty in the work of saving them."
--Rene Steinke, National Book Award finalist for Holy Skirts
"If you love dogs as much as Ken Foster, you will probably recognize yourself in much of The Dogs Who Found Me. You will remember your heart stopping or being shredded . . . only to be repaired with an even greater capacity to love."
--Terry Bain, author of You Are A Dog
"Pitbulls pitbulls pitbulls, and a man, like me, who loves them. Alternately brutal and sentimental, like the lives of the dogs he rescues. A very, verycool book."
--James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard
Disaster-prone writer and reluctant dog rescuer Ken Foster finds himself adopting an ever-growing collection of stray dogs, from a beagle abandoned in a New York City dog run to a pit bull in a Mississippi truck stop. Their circumstances offer a grounding counterpoint to his own misfortunes: the shock of New York City after 9/11, the evacuation of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and the day his heart nearly stopped for good.
KEN FOSTER is the editor of two anthologies, including Dog Culture. His collection of short stories, The Kind I'm Likely to Get, was a New York Times Notable Book. His work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeney's, and The Believer. For more information, visit www.dogswhofoundme.com.
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Jeffrey Dowding
reviewed The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind on July 25, 2012
The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind
This book was not what I expected. The chapters read more like a personal journal than a book - and it's not especially an uplifting book. The best thing about this book, in my view, is Foster's ability to describe our reluctance to help animals that clearly are starving before our eyes. He articulates his and others' fear and selfishness in a way that is realistic, albeit painful.
The writing is honest and not sappy-sentimental. But it's hard to follow sometimes, as Foster frequently seemed to leave out critical details - location, transition to a new location, people present, people no longer present - in a scene. A little maddening.
On the up side: the author delivers in the book exactly what the title indicates - it's about what he learned by interacting with neglected and homeless animals. On the down side: the author's self-described feelings of helplessness and anxiety, especially early in the book, left me very frustrated and several times I had to put the book down.
Foster expresses anxiety over things that, to me, seem like simple decisions: Yes, you should take the dog in; no, do not wait until tomorrow. Yes, you should help your friend's dog that's being punched in the face by a strange woman and is clearly in emotional distress; no, do not wait until she leaves the dog park and then complain about her to other silent witnesses. No, you should NOT give the starving, lost puppies back to their neglectful owner, etc, etc. Argh!
The stories are more sad than happy, but again this is the author's tone in the telling.
The back of the book has some excellent resources for people who live in the dog world, including web sites on training, quality dog foods and snacks, and sites devoted to pit bull rescue and providing reliable info about the breed.
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