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A Useful Dog Hardback - 2007

by Donald McCaig

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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.

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  • Title A Useful Dog
  • Author Donald McCaig
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st University o
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • Publication date March 30, 2007
  • ISBN 9780813926179 / 0813926173
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7 x 5 x 1.25 in (17.78 x 12.70 x 3.18 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Pets
  • Library of Congress subjects Sheep dog trials, Sheep dogs
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006032913
  • Dewey Decimal Code 636.737

About the author

Donald McCaig, sheepdog trainer and writer, is the author of Nop's Trials, Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men (both about working border collies), Jacob's Ladder (a Civil War novel), and An American Homeplace (Virginia). He lives on a farm outside Williamsville, Virginia with sheepdogs Slick, Luke, June, Zip, Silk and sheep guard dogs Ruth and Boo.

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