COMIC
COMIC >>ANNOUNCER: A NEW BOOK. TODAY HE 4@TURNED OUT 32 BOOKS.
INCLUDING THE 4@K TEAM WHICH 4@
RELEASED4@4@ JUST LAST MONTH.
BOOKS 33 AND 34 ARE IN THE
WORKS.
>> HE HAS AN ENDLESS SOURCE OF
MATERIAL TO DRAW FROM.
HE AND HIS WIFE DEBBIE DEVOTED
THEIR LIVES TO RESCUING AND
FINDING HOMES FOR DOGS, OFTEN
DOGS THAT ARE OLDER AND
DIFFICULT TO ADOPT.
207 PEGGY 4@KAISER STOP BY THEI
HOME WITH OUR PHOTOGRAPHER
DEVON CRAWFORD AND FOUND THAT
LIFE IS ABOUT AS ENTERTAINING
AS 4@ANY FICTION.
>> OF A 4@DOG CAN 4@CHANGE THE
COURSE OF A PERSON'S LIFE, THEN
AS 4@ANY FICTION. >> OF A 4@DOG CAN 4@CHANGE THE COURSE OF A PERSON'S LIFE, THEN@
THESE 20 THEIR PATH TO A DOG 4@
NAMED TARA.
TARA WAS DEBBIE MAYER'S BELOVED
GOLDEN RETRIE4@VER AND WHEN DAV
ROSENFELD AND DEBBIE STARTED
DATING 26 YEARS AGO, THEY FELL
HARD FOR EACH OTHER AND DAVID
DUBBED TARA THE BEST DOG IN THE
HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
DAVID LIKED DOGS BUT DEBBIE WAS
A SELF-DESCRIBED DOG LUNATIC.
THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER 4@AND
FOR TARA TOOK OFF FROM THERE.
>> WHEN TARA DIED, I COULD NOT @
GET ANOTHER DOG 4@DID IT WAS
TURNING ME INTO A 4@NOT VERY NI
PERSON.
SO A FRIEND SAID WHY DON'T YOU
GO TO THE LA COUNTY ANIMAL
SHELTER AND YOU CAN VOLUNTEER.
WHAT SHE DIDN'T TELL ME 4@WAS
THAT DOGS DON'T ALWAYS FIND A
HOME SO THAT 4@IS HOW4@4@ -- AN
DAVID VOLUNTEERED WITH ME --
AND THAT'S HOW THE RESCUE
START.
>>4@ TOGETHER IN HONOR OF 4@TAR
THEY STARTED THE TARA
FOUNDATION.
RESCUING DOGS.
HUNDREDS OF THEM.
GENERALLY DOGS THAT NO ONE ELSE
WOULD LIKELY WANT TO TAKE HIM.
THAT MEANT SENIOR DOGS, DOGS
4@ WITH HEALTH ISSUES IN DOGS WITH
SEPARATION ANXIETY LIKE CA4@PED
CRUSADERS THEY WOULD APPEAR AT
SHELTERS IN CALIFORNIA SAVING
AS MANY DOGS AS THEY COULD FROM
CRUSADERS THEY WOULD APPEAR AT SHELTERS IN CALIFORNIA SAVING AS MANY DOGS AS THEY COULD FROM@
CERTAIN DEATH.
THERE SEEM TO BE NO END TO
THEIR WILLINGNESS TO FIND ROOM
IN THEIR HEARTS FOR JUST ONE
MORE DUMP IT
>> WE HAD A RESCUE FOUNDATION
IN CALIFORNIA AND WE RESCUE
$4000 BUT IF WE RESCUED A DOG
THAT WAS OLDER BLIND OR SICK
BUT NOBODY WOULD WANT IT.
AND WE WOULD NOT LEAVE IT IN A @
CAGE.
THAT'S WHY WE GOT IT OUT OF THE
CAGE.
SO 4@THEY CAME HOME WITH US.
SO THAT'S WHAT STARTED IT.
>> IT MEANT RESCUING DOGS THAT
WERE HARD TO REHOME. 4@
IF THEY COULD NOT PLACE THEM
ANEW FOREVER HOMES, LOTS OF
DOGS ENDED UP 4@AT HOME WITH
DAVID AND DEBBIE.
>> WE WOULD GO TO SHELTERS AND
COUPLING AND SHE WOULD PICK
ADULTS.
THE SHELTERS ARE HORRIBLE.
SO THERE'S 200 DOGS THAT NEED
SAVING AND WE WOULD BE ABLE TO @
GET --4@ WE ALWAYS HAD 25 FOR
ADOPTION.
SO IF WE ADOPTED 10 IN A
WEEKEND, WE'LL GET 10.
BUT SHE WOULD GO THROUGH A
SHELTER LIKE SHE'S AT NEIMAN
MARCUS.
SHE WOULD SAY I WILL TAKE THIS
ONE THAT THAT ONE.
SHE CAN'T GO TO SHELTERS.
IT'S A DISASTER.
>> SIX 4@YEARS AGO, THEY MOVED
THEIR PACK TO MIDCOAST 4@MAINE,
CROSS-COUNTRY EXPEDITION WITH
25 DOGS AND THREE RVS
DELIGHTFULLY CALLED 4@DOG
TRIPPING.
NOW HOME IS A 10 ACRE SLICE OF @
DOG HEAVEN.
THREE FENCED IN ACRES, PLENTY
OF SPACE AND A DOG DOOR THAT 4@
ALLOWS THEM FREE REIGN.
>> THEY GO THROUGH A DOG DOOR
IS LIKE THE LINCOLN TUNNEL.
AND THEY GO OUT TO 4@THIS AREA.
>> THEY DO LESS REHOMING OF
DOGS THESE DAYS BECAUSE THE
RESCUES AND SHELTERS IN MAINE
TO SUCH A GOOD JOB.
THEIR PACK AT THE MOMENT
CONSISTS OF 20 DOGS, EACH WITH
A STORY OF ABUSE OR 4@4@NEGLECT
EACH NOW HAVING LANDED IN A
PLACE WHERE THEY WILL LIVE OUT @
THEIR DAYS BEING LOVED AND
CARED FOR AND SAFE.
YOU DOGS LIKE TRUMAN THE BOXER
WHO ARRIVED ABOUT FOUR 4@WEEKS
AGO SETTLE INTO THE PACK WITH
LITTLE DISRUPTION.
THEY FUND THEIR SPOT, THEY FIND
A 4@PAL AND LET'S FACE IT, WHEN
YORTY HAVE 20 DOGS, WHAT'S ONE
MORE.
>> IT'S ACTUALLY VERY REWARDING
TO TAKE A DOG OUT OF A
SITUATION AND HAVE IT SAFE AND
HAPPY AND LUMPY THIS DOG IS ONE
OF THE THREE DOGS FROM
CALIFORNIA AND HE WAS ABANDONED
IN A VET'S OFFICE.
PEOPLE LEFT HIM AND NEVER CAME @
BACK AND HE WAS THREE YEARS
OLD.
AND I WENT TO PET HIM AND HE
URINATED ALL OVER HIMSELF FROM
ME PETTING HIM.
THAT'S HOW SCARED HE WAS.
AND NOW LOOK 4@AT HIM.
>> AT NIGHT IT IS THE BEST WITH
THAT'S HOW SCARED HE WAS. AND NOW LOOK 4@AT HIM. >> AT NIGHT IT IS THE BEST WITH@
THEM.
THE ABSOLUTE BEST.
YOU HAVE A BOOK AND YOU HAVE A
WINTER NIGHT AND YOU HAVE ALL
THESE WARM, LOVING CREATURES
WITH YOU.
IT IS JUST SO COMFORTING.
>> I HAVE A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT
PERSPECTIVE.
ON THAT.
IT'S A FIASCO, 4@EVERY NIGHT.
>> MANY OF US HAVE A DOG 4@4@OR
MAYBE THREE BUT AFTER SPENDING
SOME TIME WITH THESE TWO, IT
DIDN'T SEEM THE LEAST BIT
UNUSUAL TO BE SURROUNDED BY 20
DOGS.
THESE TWO COULD NOT IMAGINE
LIFE ANY OTHER WA4@Y.
>> I AM NOT SURE NORMAL IS THE
WAY I WOULD USE.
IT'S BEEN 23 4@YEARS.
>> ENDING COMPANY, WE NEVER HAD
LESS 4@THAN 30.
AND WE HAD 42 AT ONE POINT.
BUT WE THINK OVER 40 IS
ECCENTRIC SO WE TRY TO 4@AVOID @
THAT.
>> YOU CAN IMAGINE WHEN TWO
STRANGERS WITH A TRIPOD AND A
BIG TV CAMERA SHOW UP, WE WOULD
GET QUITE THE RECEPTION.
BUT ALL IN ALL, THE DOGS SETTLE
DOWN QU4@ICKLY AND LET US GET 4
WORK THAT MUCH OF OUR 4@INTERVI
HOWEVER WENT LIKE THIS WHEN
ASKED WHAT A TYPICAL DAY WAS
LIKE AT THEIR HOUSE.
>> IS NOT ATYPICAL.
WE GET UP AND FEED 20 DOGS.
>> THE DAY STARTS WITH MURPHY
AND AGEE GETTING IN 4@4@THE BED
WE GET UP AND FEED 20 DOGS. >> THE DAY STARTS WITH MURPHY AND AGEE GETTING IN 4@4@THE BED@
>> RIGHT NOW THE 4@ROSENFELD'S
HAVE 15 DOGS AT HOME. 4@
IT WOULDN'T HAVE ENDED ANY
OTHER WAY.
THE MOST RECENT ADDITION IS 4@A
NEW DOG THAT JOINED THE PACK
LAST WEEK.
WILL HAVE MORE