Twenty years ago, Lori Weise worked near Los Angeles’ Skid Row. She saw hundreds of homeless people. Then she noticed something else: Many of them had pets.

Fix the dogs and feed the men.That’s what Lori Weise decided to do 16 years ago when she started working at Modernica Inc., a furniture factory on the edge of L.A.’s Skid Row. She could… ...

Lori Weise and Richard Tuttelmondo fight homelessness on skid row with dogged determination. Good thing, too. It takes a certain tenacity to prowl the streets of downtown Los Angeles dispensing ...

To Weise's dismay, she's been embraced as the "Pitbull Lady," since most of the dogs she deals with end up being pitbulls. "I'm a dog rescue, not a pitbull rescue" Weise says with a bankrupt poker ...

LOS ANGELES – Fix the dogs and feed the men. That's what Lori Weise decided to do 16 years ago when she started working at Modernica Inc., a furniture factory on the edge of L.A.'s Skid Row. She ...

Or is it cruel and immoral? Mithers explores these questions through the life story, lightly but deftly sketched, of Lori Weise, one of those stubborn, modest people who accomplish radical change ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Downtown Dog Rescue, the Arts District nonprofit rescue operation that has saved and placed hundreds of homeless pit bulls into homes through the past 14 years, ...

LOS ANGELES — Fix the dogs and feed the men. That’s what Lori Weise decided to do 16 years ago when she started working at Modernica Inc., a furniture factory on the edge of L.A.’s Skid Row.

Host Peter O'Dowd speaks with author Carol Mithers about her new book, "Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets" Mithers profiles Lori Weise, whose ...

Twenty years ago, Lori Weise was working at a furniture factory near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. She saw hundreds of people living on the streets. Then she began noticing something else ...

Twenty years ago, Lori Weise was working at a furniture factory near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. She saw hundreds of people living on the streets. Then she began noticing something else ...