It's a Wild Life: How My Life Became a Zoo by Bud Deyoung

It's a Wild Life: How My Life Became a Zoo by Bud Deyoung

Pursuing your passion includes a whole lot of crap. For Bud DeYoung, that's about two hundred pounds a day! Since childhood, Bud had a passion for animals. As an adult, that passion led to the rescue of a bear who lived in his family's house, then more animals crowding for space, until Bud eventually built an entire private zoo around his home in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Along the way, a regular visitor named Carrie joined her passion for animals with Bud's. Together they now educate the public about animal conservation, battle the harsh winters and blazing summers, and daily dole out love to the hundreds of rescued animals in their care. Meanwhile, they teach by example how to make the world a better place while pursuing their passion. Welcome to the fascinating, heartwarming journey of one man, one woman, and an amazing cast of critters, whose stories will warm your soul. Welcome to the wild life of the DeYoung Family Zoo.

This is a must-read, inspirational account for any animal loverI hope there is a second edition in a couple of years so that we can catch up with the characters introduced in this book and understand the ongoing fortunes of this very special zoo. ~ LibraryThing Reviews I couldn't put DeYoung's book down and was even a bit sad when I turned the last page. I will definitely be telling all my friends to read It's a Wild Life: How My Life Became a Zoo. ~D. Bettenson, DBettenson New Book Reviews Thank you, Bud DeYoung, for letting me into your fascinating ... life. Your downhome-style account touchingly covers how and why your life became a zoo and will tug at the heart of every animal lover. ~ Jennifer Keats Curtis, award-winning children's author of the Animal Helpers series, speaker, and founder of MY-Say ... a beautiful story full of inspiration and love. --Open Book Society

Bud DeYoung Since childhood, Bud DeYoung had a passion for animals. At the young age of eight, he brought kids home from school to see his little zoo. When Bud was fifteen, he traded the family beagle for a monkey. This was the beginning. Today on his own property in Michican's Upper Peninsula, Bud runs a zoo that has been open to the public since 1988 and is featured in a television series called My Life Is a Zoo on Nat Geo WILD and the 2012 independent film Zooman. Along with Big Cat Carrie, Bud cares for over two hundred happy critters, from Bengal tigers to arctic wolves to a very hungry hippo named Wallace. Together Bud and Carrie educate the public about animal conservation, battle harsh winters and blazing summers, and daily dole out love to the hundreds of animals in their care. Through Bud and Carrie's daily sacrifice, animals find rescue, people are inspired, and Bud DeYoung and Carrie Cramer know the fulfillment of living and building upon their dreams. You can visit Bud and Carrie at the DeYoung Family Zoo in Wallace, Michigan, and online at TheDeYoungFamilyZoo.com. Cindy Martinusen Coloma is a best-selling author and has written 12 novels including Beautiful (2010 Christy Award Finalist and 2011 Revolve Book of the Year), The Salt Garden (Library Journal's Best Books 2004) Orchid House (2008 ECPA bestseller) and Winter Passing (2001 Christy Award Finalist), as well as several non-fiction books and over 100 published articles. Cindy lives in Redding, California with her husband and four children.

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ISBN 13	9781605426372
ISBN 10	1605426377
Title	It's a Wild Life: How My Life Became a Zoo
Author	Bud Deyoung
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Publisher	Medallion Press
Year published	2014-06-26
Number of pages	256
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