TY - BOOK AU - Zaleski, Laurie, TI - Funny farm: my unexpected life with 600 rescue animals SN - 9781638085805 AV - HV4716.Z35 A3 2023 U1 - 636.08 23/eng/2019 PY - 2023/// CY - Thorndike, Maine : PB - Center Point Large Print, KW - Zaleski, Laurie. KW - Animal rights activists KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Animal welfare KW - Animal shelters KW - Animal rescue KW - Businesswomen KW - Autobiographies KW - fast KW - Biographies KW - Large type books N1 - Regular print version previously published by St. Martin's Press; Runaways --; We Were the Joneses --; What Doesn't Kill You --; Accidentally Eden --; Going for Broke --; Mayonnaise Sandwiches --; The Facts of Life --; Jersey Devils --; Father Figure --; The Trespasser --; The Good Fight --; Crossroads --; Nightfall --; Homeward Bound --; Moving Day --; A Pig Too Far --; Chucky --; Act Two --; No Fences --; Valentine's Day --; Epilogue/Someday N2 - "Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She was planning to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues -- horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens and pigs -- when Annie died, just two weeks before moving day. In her heartbreak, Laurie resolved to make her mother's dream her own. In 2001, she established the Funny Farm Animal Rescue outside Mays Landing, New Jersey. Today, she carries on Annie's mission to save abused and neglected animals. Funny Farm is Laurie's story: of promises kept, dreams fulfilled, and animals lost and found. It's the story of Annie McNulty, who fled a nightmarish marriage with few skills, no money and no resources, dragging three kids behind her, and accumulating hundreds of cast-off animals on the way. And lastly, it's the story of the brave, incredible, and adorable animals that were rescued. Although there are some sad parts (as life always is), there are lots of laughs."-- ER -