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Can Wolfdogs Help Veterans Heal?
Wolf dogs can't live in the wild and can't live in society, and the veterans who care for them at this sanctuary know exactly what that feels like. They both need to trust each other in order to heal.
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Birds of a Feather: A True Story of Hope and the Healing Power of Animals
Lorin Lindner is a clinical psychologist who spent years counseling homeless veterans in Los Angeles while also taking in parrots whose owners could no longer care for them. Birds of a Feather is her account of how those two parts of her life became one thing, Serenity Park, a sanctuary on the grounds of the West Los Angeles VA where veterans living with PTSD care for abused and neglected parrots, and where the caring runs in both directions.
The story starts in the late 1980s with two rescued cockatoos, Sammy and Mango, and grows from there, through Lindner's work as clinical director of New Directions for Veterans, the founding of the Earth Angel Parrot Sanctuary near Ojai, and the opening of Serenity Park in 2005.
Written with Elizabeth Butler-Witter and published by St. Martin's Press in 2018, the book makes a plain, practical case that parrots don't belong in living rooms. They are loud and long-lived, and far more complicated than a living room can handle, and the kindest way to love them is to support a sanctuary. A portion of the book's profits goes to Serenity Park.
Why We Recommend It
Lorin Lindner founded the Lockwood Animal Rescue Center and its Warriors and Wolves program, the sanctuary in our film "Can Wolfdogs Help Veterans Heal?". Birds of a Feather is her own account of how that work began. Veterans and rescued animals, learning to heal alongside each other. If you liked the film, this book tells how the story started.