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The founder and president of Animal Rescue Corps, former head of the Humane Society of the United States' Animal Rescue Team, and former CEO of the Washington Animal Rescue League, Scotlund Haisley has spent more than twenty five years saving the lives of animals and inspiring compassion. He has rescued animals living in abuse and neglect throughout the world, has conceived and led a six million dollar campaign to build the most humane animal shelter of its kind, and has led the rescue of over a quarter million animals from large-scale cruelty and natural disasters.Wearing a respirator mask for protection from the piercing ammonia that hangs in the air, Scotlund charges headlong into places most of us never even knew existed. He pries open the doors of ramshackle sheds, freeing puppy-mill dogs from chicken wire cages - spaces so small they can barely turn around. One day he's in a laboratory saving animals who have been tested on their entire lives, and the next, implementing higher standards in an animal shelter to better care for society's castaways.This gripping memoir takes readers on the road with Scotlund as he works alongside law enforcement and leads his army of compassion soldiers to bust puppy mills and other places that profit from abusing animals. It shares how Scotlund came to be the dynamic and fearless leader he is - realizing in a twelve-step program as a youth that his life needed meaning - and gives readers the support they need if they, too, are looking for their calling, or want to make positive change in the world.