title: Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter
author:  Elizabeth Hess 
description: For some people, animal shelters seem dark, desperate places. All terrified barks and frightened hisses, the shelter is the last stop for many an animal on what has too often been a painful journey. For others, the shelter is a place of hope, where the perfect dog or cat waits to be adopted. In her time spent volunteering at the Columbia-Greene Humane Society, author Elizabeth Hess discovered that shelter life couldn't be defined in such simple terms. In this &quot;subterranean animal culture,&quot; life is a &quot;complex mix of people and animals, emotion and ideology ... where life and death decisions are made as regularly as coffee.&quot;
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  ## About the Book
  
  
  **_Paul O’Grady’s Country Life_ for
  
  
  the first time gives a glimpse into
  
  
  the home life of one of Britain’s
  
  
  best-loved stars, alongside the
  
  
  animals he adores.**
  
  
  Sometimes rural idyll, sometimes hell on
  
  
  earth, Paul’s country life in Kent has been
  
  
  shared over the years with some very vocal
  
  
  pigs, a mad cow, various rescued barn owls,
  
  
  the world’s most sadistic geese and Christine
  
  
  the psychotic sheep – among many other
  
  
  animal waifs and strays. And Paul tells the
  
  
  stories of the dogs in his life – including
  
  
  Eddie, the tiny chihuahua/Jack Russell
  
  
  cross with Napoleonic ambitions, Miss
  
  
  Olga, Bullseye, Louis, Boycie and, of course,
  
  
  Buster, the greatest canine star since Lassie.
  
  
  In addition, Paul shares some of his favourite
  
  
  recipes, explores country lore and superstitions,
  
  
  and extols the benefits of growing your own
  
  
  vegetables, herbs and fruit.
  
  
  This is a warts-and-all account of country
  
  
  living, as far removed from the