A behind-the-scenes examination of how a high-intake public shelter asserts control over human and animal populations, how those humans and animals respond to and resist such control, and what the consequences of these dynamics of domination and defiance are for impounded companion animals and for all animals. Can we save America's homeless animals?

Katja M. Guenther is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside, and author of Making Their Place (Stanford, 2010).

1. Monster's World
2. Helping/Policing/Killing
3. The Myth of the Irresponsible Owner
4. The Struggle for Shelter Animal Survival
5. The Transformative Power of Grief
6. The Peculiar Problem of Pit Bulls
7. Animals' Resistance to Shelter Rule
8. Waiting, Wondering, and Wavering
9. A New Revolution