Mr. and Mrs. Dog : our travels, trials, adventures, and epiphanies /

The author draws on twenty-five years of experience raising sheepdogs to vividly describe his--and his dogs June and Luke's--unlikely progress toward and participation in the World Sheepdog Trials in Wales.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCaig, Donald (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • West Texas
  • The Education of a Dog Man
  • Overcoming the Home Court Advantage
  • Mr. and Mrs. Dog
  • What Your Dog is Trained to Do and Why
  • The Trainer's Trainer
  • A Desperate Gamble
  • The E-collar
  • Mrs. Dog Buys Our Ticket
  • Behaviorism
  • Positive Trainer Pat Miller
  • The Last Dog Still Standing
  • Listening to Dr. Dodman
  • Some Epiphanies
  • Ethology
  • Drives
  • A Thousand Yards
  • One More River to Cross
  • "That's a Good Boy"
  • "It Can't Have Been Easy to Arrange"
  • Welsh Roads (A Rant)
  • Hafod Bridge
  • Fifteen Minutes of Fame
  • The Standard
  • The Dogs' Sabbath
  • The Parade of Flags and Dogs
  • Bad Sheep
  • Eternity in an Hour
  • Only a Dog
  • Your Dog
  • First Friends
  • The Double Lift.