Table of Contents
Introduction ix
1 Loose Dog 1
2 Dogs Are Expensive 7
3 Wearing Out Your Welcome 16
4 Full-on Life 21
5 Lost Dog 27
6 Projecting 34
7 Is She Ever Leaving? 40
8 A Web of Enablers 46
9 Going Abroad 52
10 Breaking Point 58
11 Lessons Learned 65
12 She's Really Gone 69
13 One-Hundredth Dog 75
14 Hatching a Plan 82
15 Post-Traumatic Gala Disorder 86
16 Unicorns and a Beauty Queen 93
17 Fame 97
18 And … Go! 102
19 Warning Signs 107
20 Rescue Gets Real 111
21 The Difference One Hour Makes 120
22 Too Late 125
23 Hope 133
24 New Co-pilot 143
25 These Boots Are Made for Rescuing 152
26 A Real Rescue 157
27 Home Again, but Different 164
28 End of the Tour, Beginning of Something Else 171
29 The Cost to a Heart 177
30 Rescue Road Trip 181
31 It Was the Pitties That Broke My Heart 189
32 Which Dogs Will Die? 195
33 Mother and Son Rescue Road Trip 201
34 Tennessee Heroes 207
35 Where Is the Line between Caring and Killing? 215
36 Who Will Let the Dogs Out? 224
37 Back to Tennessee 227
38 Doing the Impossible 234
39 The Fuzzy Definition of No-Kill 240
40 Alabama 250
41 The Shepherd and His Lambs 256
42 One Last Stop 262
43 It's Time 267
Epilogue 271
Other Ways to Help 277
Resource List 285
Acknowledgments 289
