Author Profile: Randy GrimFounder of Stray Rescue of St. Louis and author of Don't Dump the Dog
By Randy Grim I am often asked why I started Stray Rescue. I often ask myself that, too. I never devised a game plan or had a vision - it started, I suppose, out of necessity. I do know that 15 years ago, I hated my job as a flight attendant and figured there had to be more to life than asking: "chicken or beef?" Before Stray Rescue, I'd see stray dogs - some in packs - and in an effort to get them off the streets, I'd make the normal calls to the local shelters and government agencies, only to find out that these dogs were simply out of luck. I started to think of ways to catch them, and before long I invented some wacky capture methods and enlisted friends to help save the poor guys. Each year, the makeshift organization grew as I overloaded everyone I knew with a stray dog. Little did I know that our attempts to help a few stray dogs would evolve into two no-kill shelters with a legion of more than 200 volunteers and have an impact on the stray dog crisis in America. It was after a book was written about my work with street dogs that things kind of exploded, and the subsequent media attention caught me like a deer in headlights. I am a very private, shy person (with lots of phobias including a fear of public speaking), so dealing with the TV shows, magazine articles, movie offers, and speaking engagements has been a real endurance test for me. But I love the dogs I save. I feel their pain, so I keep up the act of "The Man Who Talks to Dogs" and write books like Don't Dump the Dog, so those canines don't suffer and die. That's pretty much all there is to it. For more information:
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