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Review: 'Funny Farm' a warm memoir of rescue in many forms

This cover image released by St. Martin's Press shows "Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals" by Laurie Zaleski. (St. Martin's Press via AP) “Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 ...
The Michigan Daily

Laurie Zaleski’s ‘Funny Farm’ offers a complex look at family and poverty

The image of two mangled, abandoned calves set the tone in “Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals” by Laurie Zaleski. Immediately, the author pulls you into a tragedy full of poverty ...
The Washington Post

She cares for 24 pigs, 20 goats, 210 cats, a skunk and 345 other rescue animals — and that’s not even her day job.

MAYS LANDING, N.J. — For nearly a month, a blind lamb named Bradley has been sleeping in Laurie Zaleski’s living room. Also sharing her humble two-bedroom abode: 11 dogs, 4 chickens (in diapers), 23 ...
The Union Democrat

Funny Farm Rescue owner Laurie Zaleski talks about her 'unexpected life' with 600 animals, some in diapers

MIZPAH, N.J. — Even if you're prepared, making the turn into Funny Farm Animal Rescue, where the speed limit drops to 1 mile per hour, is like entering another, better, world. It's not quite the goat ...
The Morning Journal

Review: ‘Funny Farm’ a warm memoir of rescue in many forms

“Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals” by Laurie Zaleski (St. Martin’s Press) As its title promises, Laurie Zaleski’s memoir about how she came to found and run a large animal rescue ...