Rescue Me!

摘要

AFTER A WHILE, THE VOLUNTEERS STARTED CALLING IT THE LOVE BELL. It rang every time a pet found a "forever home" during the adopt-a-thon that took place a month after the tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo. on May 22. At the remarkable weekend event in June, just over 1,300 storm-displaced animals—dogs, cats, rabbits, chickens, ferrets, potbellied pigs, goldfish, even a yellow conure that flapped its way to the emergency shelter and landed on the shoulder of the local ASPCA director—were adopted or reunited with their families by Sunday night.