'No pet should die alone': Photographer promotes senior pet adoptionĪnd so it came to pass that the couple had 25 mostly geriatric - and mostly large - dogs living with them in Orange County when the time came for them to move to the spot in Maine where they had long planned to retire. Whenever rescued dogs were too old or too sick to get adopted by anybody, they’d end up going home with Rosenfelt and Myers. Over the past 18 years, he and his wife have helped find homes for more than 4,000 dogs that had been on death row at crowded animal shelters. TodayĪs curmudgeons go, Rosenfelt is of the crème brûlée variety - crusty on the outside, but sweet and mushy on the inside. Everything was a hassle.” Rescue dogs Noel and Jack get comfortable in one of the three RVs used for the cross-country trek. You can’t just stop and walk the dogs on the highway we had to bring 200 feet of plastic fencing and set up a dog park everywhere we went. “I hated it because everything we did was so complicated. They were having SO much fun - but I just hated it,” a curmudgeonly Rosenfelt told in a phone interview. “If you ask any of the other 10 people who were on the trip, they would literally tell you it was the greatest adventure of their lives.

So much so that “it made the D-day invasion look like a spur-of-the-moment decision,” Rosenfelt writes in “Dogtripping,” his new book about the epic cross-country trek with 11 volunteers and 25 rescue dogs in three RVs.