Every Flower of the Field by Sara Davison

“We were in business six years,” Schotland remembered. He had noted the efforts of all three women to save homeless Hamptons animals - in those days many got pets just for the summer and then left them - and decided to empower the ladies. A writer/TV critic and on-air Today show commentator, he once angered their audience by advocating sport rabbit hunters deserved to be hunted themselves, since there were overpopulated.

They honor the people of ARF who have been willingly seduced into helping them.”Ĭleveland Armory was one such seduced. But tonight we’re here for the less fortunate Hamptons animals, the helpless, the dislocated, the homeless. … They have a powerful lobby now in Washington and Albany and some of them even have health insurance (or pet insurance). “Today, they know how to communicate with us, read our moods, and seduce us into doing all sorts of things they want us to do. “Canines and felines have evolved quite a bit since they first wandered out of the forest … and started … developing a very symbiotic relationship with people,” Kroft told the crowd. Watermill Center’s Robert Wilson and Broadway producers Darryl Roth, Bonney Comley and Stewart Lane were among the social crowd of animal lovers. Today ARF is a Hamptons institution which celebrated its 40th Anniversary with a sold out Bow Wow Meow Ball on its 22 acre Wainscott facility.

Philanthropist Jean Shafiroff and Pet Philanthropy Circle’s Jewel Morris. Some day this will be a recognized shelter.” They struggled for years, but Sony Schotland’s husband always told her, “Just keep at it. The struggling shelter didn’t want newcomers, so, Sony Schotland, Dorothy Wahl and the late Barbara Hotchkiss Posener branched out on their own. Once upon a time, long ago in 1970, famed writer and animal protector Cleveland Amory put three women together to help the Hamptons Animal Shelter survive.

Every Flower of the Field by Sara Davison