Funny farm : my unexpected life with 600 rescue animals Laurie Zaleski

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaleski, Laurie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zaleski, Laurie.

Animal rights activists--United States--Biography.

Businesswomen--United States--Biography.

Animal rescue--United States.

Animal shelters--United States.

Animal welfare--United States.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

My unexpected life with 600 rescue animals

My unexpected life with six hundred rescue animals

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Funny Farm is an inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. Laurie had planned to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues--horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens and pigs--when Annie died, just two weeks before moving day. In her heartbreak, Laurie resolved to make her mother's dream her own. In 2001, she established the Funny Farm Animal Rescue outside Mays Landing, New Jersey. Today, she carries on Annie's mission to save abused and neglected animals. Funny Farm is Laurie's story: of promises kept, dreams fulfilled, and animals lost and found. It's the story of Annie McNulty, who fled a nightmarish marriage with few skills, no money and no resources, dragging three kids behind her, and accumulating hundreds of cast-off animals on the way. And lastly, it's the story of the brave, incredible, and adorable animals that were rescued"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Prologue

Part I: Necessity is a mother. Runaways

We were the Joneses

What doesn't kill you

Accidentally Eden

Going for broke

Mayonnaise sandwiches

The facts of life

Jersey devils

Part II: Annie's girl. Father figure

The trespasser

The good fight

Crossroads

Nightfall

Homeward bound

Part III: Oh give me a home. Moving day

A pig too far

Chucky

Act Two

No fences

Valentine's Day

Epilogue/Someday.

ISBN:

9781250272836

1250272831

OCLC:

1227086718