DVD Review: Rescue! Brooklyn: Sean Casey Animal Rescue

Rescue! Brooklyn: Sean Casey Animal Rescue (Dreamscape Media, 2017, 96 minutes, $24.95 on Amazon)

Rescue Dogs Rock!

If you are addicted to watching the professional Animal Planet programs, especially the Animal Cops shows, you will love Rescue! Brooklyn: Sean Casey Animal Rescue!

Community Shelter

Ninety-six minutes of a neighborhood animal shelter (no-kill) in Brooklyn that has grown to expand and move locations three times is not long enough – this documentary only gets better and more enticing! You will be entertained and inspired, and will be attracted to the friendly neighborhood appeal of this DVD and will wish it were longer with more heartwarming and hilarious episodes.

Starting with saving dogs when called by Animal Control and also from the streets of New York City, Casey and his growing horde of volunteers have carved out a much needed service, at least according to the Brooklynites who are part of this movement.

Dogs, Cats, Birds, Snakes, A Sheep (in NYC!), Fish, . . . .

The best part of Sean Casey Animal Rescue (SCAR) is how down-to-earth he is: he swears when he takes off his shoes to step into a backyard fish pond to gather up the fish - the water is so cold his feet quickly become numb. He admits over and over again, laughingly, how hard it is to net a parrot outside in a tree but he keeps trying until he succeeds, which turns out to be several days. And finally, Casey still does the hard work of the shelter himself.

Peace. Love. Pit Bulls.

Scenes rotate back and forth between couples and families adopting cats and dogs to rescue attempts and finally successes (birds, sheep, dogs, cats being hoarded, scared pit bulls on the run), to introducing the SCAR family of team members (employees), all of whom spent years volunteering first, to the complete stories of dogs who cannot use their hind limbs only to learn to zip around on donated ‘wheelies’ and then regain the use of their legs!

You may just be inspired to start a shelter of your own or at least volunteer at your neighborhood animal shelter. And that is a good thing! Go for it! You will be so blessed in many ways. Pass it on and pay it forward. (Sean Casey started as a 5-year-old, according to his animal activist mom.)