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5.0 out of 5 stars
5 stars is not enough, September 19, 2009
This review is from: Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles (Hardcover)
This book is great. Very honest. I mean it tells the truth about animal rescue, the failures as well as the successes.
I'm going to buy several more as gifts. A perfect book for kids too....any age.
These guys are really something! The other reviewer ( Doglover )only gave it 3 stars because he/she felt it didn't do the guys justice. That may very well be....I don't know them personally....but after reading this book I sure wish I did...buy it..you won't be sorry.
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Big Bodies Hiding Big Hearts, October 6, 2009
This review is from: Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles (Hardcover)
You ever walk somewhere and draw funny looks? You ever looked up from eating a fabulous steak dinner in a real nice restaurant and just stop mid chew because the couple across the aisle won't stop blatantly staring at you? Or maybe somebody has looked at you like you imagine they would look at Ted Bundy? I have a couple of tattoos and I get these looks everytime I wear a tank top. I can imagine how these big, tattoed bikers feel. Meet Big Ant, G, Batso, Johnny O, Eric, Des, Joe, Robert, Bruce, Angel, and the lone female, Mary. These ten heavily tattoed New York bikers (and Mary) have set out to show the world that loving animals is cool. It doesn't make you less of man. Or less of a biker. While rescuing numberous dogs, cats, pigs, horses, and ducks these guys are also showing the more ignorant folks out there that bikers are not bad. If people quit judging others on appearance alone, they may be surprised at what is under the skin.
I like this. I like these guys' stories. I got a good laugh every now and then, especially with the pig round up. I respect what these guys are trying to do, save the animals one dog or pig at a time. When they can't coax an owner to part with a neglected pet, they build a dog house for it. When families cannot afford to spay or neuter, these guys find a vet to do it for free. When they are not rescuing pets, they are visiting schools and talking to troubled kids or spreading the word and their phone numbers to encourage people to report animal abuse.
I hope there is a sequel. This was about getting to know the guys and their stories. What childhood experiences made them what they are today? Why do they care so much about animals? What made them start this group? And of course, there are rescue stories. I hope there is another, or even a series of books for those of us that don't get the National Geographic channel. I understand they have a show coming out.
Thumbs up, Rescue Ink.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Please DON'T diss the "Cat Ladies", October 4, 2009
This review is from: Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles (Hardcover)
Sure, this is a very special and unique group of guys, streetwise, tough and tattooed, who find, rescue, rehab, love animals, and go after those who would abuse these animals -- these guys are GREAT role models, and more guys need to do this.
But "the stereotype of the crazy cat lady in tennis shoes feeding kittens out of pie tins in a vacant lot" is JUST that -- a Stereotype and NOT fact. It reminds me of what the Environmentalists used to be called in the late 1960's: "Little old ladies in tennis shoes" -- again, another very erroneous stereotype.
(BTW-- feeding cats -- who WILL be TNR'd -- in vacant lots with pie tins IS logical. Rescuers -- male and female -- KNOW that light-weight paper plates will blow away in the wind and cause some not-too-happy feelings among the local residents by adding even more litter to the area).
"Cat Ladies" have risked life and limb -- including one woman who single-handedly TNR'd ferals in parts of Bensonhurst and "tamed" the local populace who at first hated the cats, and then... considered the cats as "theirs" to look after, worry about, and care for.
Anyway, getting back to this very-well written and engrossing book -- these guys are a credit to their ilk -- may there be more people (male and female) like them. They are a living testament to the reality that kindness and compassion do not always come wrapped in cute outer trappings, but in a hard-boiled realistic reaction towards the injustices happening to innocent animals and how to combat it.
BTW -- I may be a girlie, may not have tattoos (love em, can't afford them) but I too built a custom car, maintain it, am restoring it, and even though I am presently dependent on public transportation, I always carry a portable animal rescue kit with me becuz -- (one dog, MANY cats, even two lovebirds!!) -- the lost ones walk right up to me.
This is a VERY well-written book, with an unescapable meassge; this book is something that could be read in a day -- and NOT forgotten.
I'd like to see "Rescue Ink" become mandatory reading in all schools, and discussion groups. Kindness and compassion for animals is exhibited in ALL walks of life and in this day and age MUST become more visible and recognized as a valid way of life.
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