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    Best Friends: The True Story of the World's Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary

    By Samantha Glen and Mary Tyler Moore

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    Discover a place where every creature is safe and loved in the inspiring true story of Best Friends, the no-kill animal sanctuary in Angel Canyon, Utah.
     
    In the summer of 1982, a group of young men and women pooled every penny they had and bought three thousand acres of desert in Utah. It was to become the most famous no-kill animal sanctuary in the world—a haven for over two thousand furry and feathered friends, including:
     
    Sinjin, the badly burned black cat who survived to welcome others home; Victor, the abandoned Australian Shepherd mix who became the Godfather of dogs; Sparkles, the broken-down pack horse who comforts humans and animals; and then there’s Tyson and Tommy, two tiny black kittens who have something to teach us all . . .
     
    In Best Friends, you’ll fall in love with the animals and the people who share a special bond, whose enchanting adventures together will touch your heart with the true meaning of friendship.
     
    Includes an introduction by Mary Tyler Moore
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateFeb 1, 2001
    ISBN9781617739040
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    Best Friends: The True Story of the World's Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary
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    Samantha Glen

    SAMANTHA GLEN is the co-author, with Terri Crisp, of Out of Harm's Way. With Mary Pesaresi she has also written Family: Everyday Stories About The Miracle of Love, which the Family Channel honored with its Seal of Quality and voted best adult book of 1996, and Search and Rescue. She currently writes a bi-weekly column called "Animal Talk" for a Northern Nevada newspaper. She lives with her husband and four-legged family in Lake Tahoe.   MICHAEL MOUNTAIN, one of the founders of Best Friends, still works as their Outreach and Media director.

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    • 4/5
      A well written book about the beginnings of Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Like many books of this topic, the names, people and places often times to blend together.
    • 5/5
      I've been to the Best Friends Sanctuary and it is truly a beautiful, spiritual place where animals of all kinds enjoy paradise here on Earth. On the 1-5 scale the book itself doesn't quite rate a 5, but the Best Friends organization rates at least a 10 so I'm bumping it up the book's star quotient to thank the author for bringing attention to their work. No animal lover would ever regret the purchase of this story.
    • 5/5
      This book relates the early history of a huge (the size of Manhattan) animal sanctuary in Utah, from choosing the place to becoming fully operational and solvent. The author presents both a sweeping picture and stories of individual animals and some people. Predictably, the narrative is in turn funny, moving and poignant, but always warm and interesting. The general tone is very uplifting and the book is mostly pleasant to read (if you're very sensitive toward animal suffering you might want to skip chapter 10 - I wish I had - but otherwise I didn't find it emotionally hard to read). It's a book whose "characters," both human and animal, will stay with you long after you finish it.
    • 2/5
      I adore Best Friends Animal Sanctuary !! Love it, Love it, Love it!! But this book..... not so much. I found it to be choppy and slow and just felt very flat. Even some of the "emotional" parts didn't come across with any feeling. I'll read more about Best Friends because I can't wait to go there someday but this book just didn't do them justice.