If you do not like dogs, if you are a cat only person, I think you may still enjoy this one. However if you hate dog people, go away and never come back. David Rosenfelt is always hilarious and his sarcasm always makes me laugh. I agree with him when he says “The world really does need more aging, overweight sports degenerates like me.” He says that because so many people agree with me that the world does need more amazing, unbelievably fabulous like him and his wife. This book is the lessons he learned from Tara and other rescues. If you are expecting a life changing self-improvement book, you are looking in the wrong place. He writes with humor, with (my favorite) sarcasm, truth and reverence about their life with the rescue dogs they have saved. Tara was a golden retriever that David and his wife Debbie had when they first met. She passed way too young, but they made a promise to her that they would never leave a golden behind.
So became Tara Foundation and their rescue life flourished.
Over the years they have rescued thousands of dogs and taken many of them into their own home. They eventually moved from California to Maine. Giving dogs a better quality of life is a noble cause, but more often than not Rosenfelt's crusade comes across as self-righteous.That adventure was told in David Rosenfelt’s Dogtripping. To break up the otherwise uneventful account of the cross-country trek, Rosenfelt includes detailed profiles of his dogs, many of which are unintentionally morbid. The author also misses the opportunity to expand on his former career as a movie marketing executive he disparagingly mentions his Hollywood days, but the stories are some of the most compelling in the book, including his work on the Short Circuit sequel and helping Charlton Heston adopt a chow mix. However, Rosenfelt does not approach planning the journey with a positive frame of mind and complains throughout the trip. When they decided to relocate to a larger, more dog-friendly environment in rural Maine, the couple transported their dogs in three motor homes. This hobby gradually escalated into "dog lunacy" as the number of rescues they took into their home grew to double digits. In addition to writing the Andy Carpenter mystery series, Rosenfelt and his wife, Debbie, share a passion for rescuing dogs from animal shelters. Puppy love is taken to a new extreme in this rambling memoir chronicling Rosenfelt's journey transporting 25 dogs from Southern California to Maine.
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