Critter Capers : Tales from the Dogcatcher Who Captures Your Heart

by Wittek, Lee

• ISBN13: 9780972287210
• ISBN10: 0972287213
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Bbm Pr

Summary

What do animal control officers really do? Lee Wittek answers that via Critter Capers, a chronicle of his many adventures and misadventures during two decades of rescuing dogs, cats, horses, and other creatures. Given his druthers, Wittek would have adopted them all.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction	p. ix
Tips From the Dogcatcher's Wife	p. 1
The Initiation	p. 3
The Stovepipe Did It	p. 8
Treed	p. 13
Lynch Him!	p. 16
The Meanest Man	p. 18
Strange Companions	p. 23
The Outcasts	p. 25
In the Culvert	p. 29
A Phoenix Dog	p. 33
Puzzle	p. 36
Schnitzel	p. 41
Assigned, Sealed and Delivered	p. 49
Rescues Awry	p. 52
You Keep the Volvo	p. 56
The Ribwalkers	p. 59
Bird in a Gilded Cage	p. 63
Clyde, the Wolf-dog	p. 70
Jekyll and Hyde	p. 74
Shafted	p. 78
Down the Well	p. 83
Thor	p. 87
A Lament to Stella	p. 91
Silver Lining	p. 99
Adios, Adieu	p. 103
Just Call Me Chicken	p. 108
Teddy	p. 112
The War on Drugs	p. 118
Boss	p. 121
Mocha Takes a Powder	p. 128
An Old Softie	p. 135
Friends	p. 139
An Error	p. 142
The Fugitive	p. 146
Ace	p. 150
Wrong Number	p. 155
The Great Basin Wildlife Center	p. 162
Tidbits	p. 175
One of Those Days	p. 178
Taffy	p. 185
Snoopy	p. 188
The Substitute	p. 190
Renegades	p. 194
Symbiosis	p. 199
Why??	p. 202
A Tall Order	p. 206
A Walk in the Park	p. 209
Wild Horses of the Great Basin	p. 212
Oddballs	p. 218
Interlude	p. 223
Only You	p. 226
About the Author	p. 229
Epilogue	p. 230
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