Zachary Anderegg
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Zak Anderegg never intended to be an author. After finding an abandoned puppy in a remote AZ slot canyon and receiving national publicity for the rescue, several of his close personal friends as well as hundreds of Riley's Facebook fans encouraged him to write about the event. During the writing process an unexpected thing happened. While writing about the experience of finding and rescuing Riley, Zak found himself weaving in the story of his own personal childhood struggles of dealing with constant attacks from classmate bullies and threats from within his own family. When he found Riley it was almost as if Zak had found a kindred spirit with whom he could relate. Seeing Riley emaciated and clinging to life in the bottom of that canyon, Zak unknowingly also saw a shadow of his former self down there; a young and innocent life tormented and imprisoned by careless and selfish people who had made him their target. For Zak, the decision to rescue Riley from that canyon was never an option. He would do whatever it took to pull Riley out of there, and in doing so, help begin the journey of rescuing himself from the demons of his own past. Zak completed the telling of his story in the book Rescuing Riley Saving Myself and hopes the deeply personal subject matter that he shares will shed new light on the importance of how we treat each other in our daily lives. While we are all capable of truly great things in life, we are equally capable of hurting each other in profound and life changing ways. By sharing the hardships and scars of his own past and contrasting those with the insights of watching Riley heal and ultimately flourish, Zak hopes to affect change in the reader by bluntly demonstrating the consequences of how we can forever change, for better or worse, those people who are a part of our lives. Zak & Riley have been featured on The Ellen Show, the Today Show, Inside Edition as well as numerous other media outlets. You can visit Riley's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/canyonpuppy
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