num_pages: 256
description: An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. 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 rescueshorses and goats dogs and cats chickens and pigswhen 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.
language: English
title: Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
publisher: St. Martin's Press