Leslie Irvine is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder,
and the author of two previous books, including If You Tame Me: Understanding
Our Connection with Animals (Temple University Press).
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Irvine, Leslie.
Filling the ark : animal welfare in disasters / Leslie Irvine.
p. cm. — (Animals and ethics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59213-834-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Animal welfare—United States. 2. Animal rescue—United States. 3. Disaster
relief—United States. 4. Hurricane Katrina, 2005. I. Title.
HV4708.I78 2009
179'.3— dc
2008047845
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