"Free Puppies" Documentary

My 1st dog, Brandy, adopted from a shelter.

 

From a N.Y. Times review:

"As a lifelong Southerner, I am acutely aware of the negative assumptions people make about this region. Watching “Free Puppies” was especially troubling for me because I understand how many of the film’s viewers will see its depictions of ignorance and filth and decide everything they think they know about the rural South is true. The only truth.

Stereotypes often contain some measure of truth, of course, and perhaps there is more than the usual allotment of truth in stereotypes about people who keep animals in deplorable conditions. But the filmmakers have taken care to convey the complex reality behind the stories of neglect."

 

 "“Free Puppies” will be released on DVD — and as video-on-demand on Apple and Amazon — on Dec. 13. The heroes of the film are Monda Wooten, Ruth Smith and Ann Brown, three pet rescuers who live in the area where Alabama and Tennessee share a border with Georgia. Their work to remedy local animal suffering is the narrative lens through which the film considers this regionwide problem.

(FULL STORY HERE.)