““Rescue doesn’t account for a fraction of a percentage point’s worth of difference in a place like LA. But it makes all the difference in the world to the one saved. It also makes all the difference in the world to the rescuer. The joy is in that first walk and in watching them take the long pees they always do. It is in leading them away from the barking and shrieking echoing off the cinderblock walls. The rescuer gets the deep pleasure of giving a deprived dog something good to eat. Of getting them to a safe place. Of cleaning them up. When the dog is ready to play again, we are the ones they play with. When they are ready to love a human again, we are the objects of it.””
