Not Left Behind: Rescuing the Pets of New Orleans
photography by Troy Snow, text by Bob Somerville (Yorkville Press, $19.95)

" 'I didn't really have a case of the photojournalist's dilemma--do I take pictures or help,' [photographer Troy Snow] recalls. 'Actually, more often than not, I had to remind myself to pick up the camera and take some pictures.…' " Some of what they experienced in the next two weeks is detailed in the photographs that fill this book. But they and many others did so much more. Best Friends was the first animal rescue organization to hit the flooded streets, but there were ultimately many others involved as well. The unprecedented scope of the storm was in key ways matched by an unprecedented response at the grassroots level--from rescuers on the scene and thousands of supporters and donors around the country.

Not Left Behind doesn't attempt to provide a complete picture of what was done to rescue the pets of New Orleans. Probably no single book ever can. But in its small way, the story of what these few did speaks volumes about the spirit of compassion that floated on those waters of destruction…. As a national community, we made mistakes in responding to Katrina. But we also did things right. In our ignorance, we insisted that people leave without their pets. But in our compassion we went back, and we made sure that as many as possible were, in the end, not left behind." –excerpted from the book's introduction by Bob Somerville