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Peg Kehret has long been known to her readers as the author who loves animals.

In this loving memoir, she recounts the joys and challenges of her life on a small animal sanctuary.

She rescues a mother cat and her kittens who were shot with a pellet gun, and discovers a black bear on her porch, staring at her through the window. She studies the animals and birds she encounters, attempting to improve the lives of band-tail pigeons and starving deer.

Wolves, like children, are not born to lead calm lives.

Feo's live is extraordinary. She and her mother train domesticated wolves to fend for themselves in the snowy wilderness of Russia. She loves working with the wolves, especially the three that have been wilded but refuse to leave Feo. They're half-wild, not pets.