No Buddy Left Behind: Bringing U.S. Troops' Dogs And Cats Safely Home From The Combat Zone

by Terri Crisp, C. J. Hurn

Overview

No Buddy Left Behind unveils the life-altering relationships American troops serving in the Middle East have shared with the stray dogs and cats they've rescued from the brutalities of war. Overcoming monumental obstacles, Operation Baghdad Pups' program manager Terri Crisp makes it her mission to save these wartime "buddies," get them out of danger, and bring them home to the soldiers who love them. How exactly does someone get animals out of a country at war when normal resources are lacking and every step of a plan to transport animals could get you arrested, kidnapped, or blown apart? As Crisp soon learns, each rescue mission from first to last is a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants experience, and no animal is truly safe until its paws touch U.S. soil. Terri and her team have saved the lives of 223 dogs and forty-two cats befriended by military personnel since February 2008—and No Buddy Left Behind finally tells this story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762782789
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	11/06/2012
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Terri Crisp is the author of Out of Harm’s Way and Emergency Animal Rescue Stories. As the Program Manager for SPCA International’s Operation Baghdad Pups, she has made thirty-one trips to Iraq and Afghanistan since the program’s inception. She has been interviewed on the OPRAH SHOW, national TV news programs, and morning talk shows, and numerous national publications have run stories on her work. To learn more about Terri and Operation Baghdad Pups, visit www.spcai.org.
 

Cindy Hurn is a freelance writer who has also worked as a volunteer with large and small animals. Her essays, short stories and poetry have been published in The Sacramento Bee, Poetry Now Magazine, and Calaveras Station Literary Journal.      

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Chapter 1 How It All Began 1

Chapter 2 Getting the Call 11

Chapter 3 The Kindness of Strangers 23

Chapter 4 Rescue Mission #1 34

Chapter 5 A Brother's Plea 51

Chapter 6 K-Pot and Liberty 60

Chapter 7 New Friends 69

Chapter 8 Guard Duty 81

Chapter 9 Finding Felines 92

Chapter 10 Heroes in the Making 109

Chapter 11 Reaching Out 121

Chapter 12 Patriot Pets 131

Chapter 13 Team Effort 140

Chapter 14 Countdown to Baghdad 151

Chapter 15 In the Red Zone 162

Chapter 16 Full House 178

Chapter 17 The French Connection 194

Chapter 18 Au Revoir! 208

Chapter 19 Letting Go 221

Afterword Cynthia Hurn 231

Editorial Reviews

"For Operation Baghdad Pups to succeed, a huge number of people from diverse walks of life—high school students, airline executives, veterinarians, military officers, journalists and others—had to work in concert, with patience, determination and selflessness, to get the animals safely home. This is the story of human beings at their best." —The Star-Ledger

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