Through animals' eyes: true stories from a wildlife sanctuary, paperback/lynn marie cuny

A Book-of-the-Month Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, and One Spirit Selection.

The day we met [Cuny] was feeding five beautiful yearlings intravenously, who surely would have died from dehydration, while she simultaneously supervised the feeding of skunks, possums, squirrels-you name it.

She is selfless and dauntless in her battle to rescue and rehabilitate animals.

I feel privileged to know her and serve on her board.

There are few better qualified to look through the eyes of an animal.

It is a beautiful, touching book.

Loretta Swit, actress Heartwarming tales of rescued creatures are presented in this collection of vignettes from a large wildlife rehabilitation center .

Cunys love for her charges shines through in her stories.

-- Booklist Her brief stories are often touching, such as when she describes a young raccoon, rescued from a fire, self-medicating its burned paws with aloe vera plants; or two crab-eating macaques, confined inside a research facility for eighteen years, experiencing the outdoors for the first time.

-- Natural History This book deserves a spot on every library shelf along with such nonfiction animal story classics as Adamsons Born Free, Norths Rascal, and the work of Jane Goodall .

Cunys achievement is in her ability to present the animals experiences in a factual, sympathetic, but unsentimental tone.

-- Appraisal: Science Books for Young People Lynns stories from Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation (WRR) range from the humorous to the tragic, from the surprising to the inevitable.

The animals she describes range from the day-old field mouse to the three-legged coyote; from a fox-loving hen to the exotic and abused mountain lions, macaque monkeys and black bears.

Always, she reveals the dignity of each animal, trying to survive in a world made cruel and dangerous by the thoughtlessness of humans.

About author(s): Lynn Cuny, Executive Director of WRR, began her rescue work at the age of three by saving the lives of earthworms after a hard rain.

She serves on the boards of the Summerlee Foundation and the Ahimsa Foundation and lives outside of San Antonio.