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Alternately comical, melancholic, pragmatic, and poetic, Donald McCaig's collection AUseful Dog offers a delightful exploration of the simple yet rich relationship between dogs and humans. Having cast aside urban life in the 1970s in favor of working and living on a sheep farm in Virginia, McCaig has spent the past three decades raising working sheepdogs and writing about his experiences with them. A Useful Dog comprises a selection of short pieces—vintage McCaig—that reveal not only the ins and outs of sheepdog work and trials but also the joy and devotion that dogs bring to our daily lives. For any dog enthusiast, this little book will prove a telling reminder of why the dog became known as man's best friend.
University of Virginia Press
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Andrew Koh
reviewed A Useful Dog on August 15, 2013
A Useful Dog
Alternately comical and melancholic, these sharply crafted essays explore the rich relationship between working dogs and humans. It includes some canine history, but mostly the book focuses on the communion between man and working dog. The writing is witty and McCaig's love for border collies apparent on every page. Perhaps the best example appears in the opening passage: "The snow is deep and he is old but two hundred sheep are yarded half a mile from feed so I send him. The snow is deeper than he is. He coils himself below its blank crust to buck into the light like a porpoise. Each lunge, each crash back in flurry achieves, nearly, three feet. He has eleven years and must get eight hundred yards. Too much love can burst the heart."
Dog lovers will adore this book.
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