The Man Who Talks to Dogs The Story of Randy Grim and His Fight to Save America's Abandoned Dogs

by Roth, Melinda; La Russa, Tony; Fox, Michael W.

• ISBN13: 9780312331047
• ISBN10: 0312331045
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Griffin

Summary

Go to any unpopulated or abandoned urban area, and you'll find them. Countless thousands of wild dogs-abandoned to disease, starvation, and inevitable death-are leading brutal lives in the no-man's-land between domestication and wildness. A lucky few are saved by dedicated rescuers, and Randy Grim, founder of Stray Rescue of St. Louis, has become one of the country's lead-ing dog saviors. In this book, journalist Melinda Roth narrates Grim's dramatic efforts and describes the horrific and heart-warm-ing cases he encounters, showing how this growing national health problem-controlled by no federal or local laws-can no longer be ignored. This edition includes a new afterword about Grim's rehabil-itation of Quentin, the dog who recently made national head-lines by miraculously surviving a gas chamber.

Author Biography

Melinda Roth has worked as a state political correspondent and feature writer for the St. Louis Riverfront Times and as the education reporter for the Edwardsville Intelligencer. Raised in the Chicagoland area, she has three children and two rescued dogs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
The First: Noel	p. 3
On the Street	p. 9
Distant Instinct	p. 21
How to Get a Life Without Even Trying	p. 34
The Game Dogs	p. 48
When Skies Are Gray	p. 65
Left Behind	p. 85
The Evacuation	p. 98
Bred in the U.S.A.	p. 116
Cold Fires	p. 131
In the Deep End	p. 144
Saving Hannah	p. 161
A Pack Divided	p. 187
All the Way Home	p. 197
Grim's Feral Tails	p. 204
Epilogue	p. 219
Afterword	p. 223
Animal Organizations	p. 227
Works Cited	p. 231
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