A Rare Breed of Love: The True Story of Baby and the Mission She Inspired to Help Dogs Everywhere


Posted on May 28, 2008
By Julia Szabo

by Jana Kohl
 
Fireside, 224 pages, $25.95
 
Available on Amazon.com
 
Baby is a one-legged senior Poodle who suffered terribly during her years as a breeding bitch at a puppy mill. At age 9, Baby won the lottery: she got adopted by the author of this book, who got an idea: embark on a mission to educate dog lovers about the horrors of puppy mills, and to help end the cruel exploitation of millions of other Babys across the country and around the globe.
 
Turning Baby into an ambassadog for puppy mill awareness, her new owner morphed into the ultimate stage mother, arranging to photograph her Baby with some very famous people. We see Baby doing yoga with Mariel Hemingway, enjoying red-carpet moments in the arms of Lindsay Lohan and Jane Fonda (with Gloria Steinem cheering her on in the background), sharing laughs with Eric Idle and Bill Maher, having a heart-to-heart with Montel Williams and a fashion moment with designer Todd Oldham.
 
We also get to see the warm, fuzzy side of numerous political animals as they pause for face time with Baby; among the little dog's constituents are Senators Barack Obama, Edward Kennedy, Elizabeth Dole, and John Ensign.
 
The best part of this book is the way it treats animal cruelty as equal in seriousness to child protection and other important social issues; noted children's advocate John Walsh makes an appearance to say "I believe in justice - for all." 
 
Hopefully everyone will read Baby's story and be inspired to spread the word that pet-shop puppies are the product of cruel puppy mills. Buying that "doggie in the window" is supporting the very system that abused and exploited Baby. Far better to take a stand by adopting from an animal shelter or rescue group.
 
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