People who love dogs often talk about a 'lifetime' dog. I'd heard
the phrase a dozen times before I came to recognize its
significance. Lifetime dogs are dogs we love in especially
powerful, sometimes inexplicable ways.-Jon Katz In this gripping
and deeply touching book, bestselling author Jon Katz tells the
story of his lifetime dog, Orson: a beautiful border
collie-intense, smart, crazy, and unforgettable. From the moment
Katz and Orson meet, when the dog springs from his traveling crate
at Newark airport and panics the baggage claim area, their
relationship is deep, stormy, and loving. At two years old, Katz's
new companion is a great herder of school buses, a scholar of
refrigerators, but a dud at herding sheep. Everything Katz
attempts- obedience training, herding instruction, a new name,
acupuncture, herb and alternative therapies-helps a little but not
enough, and not for long. Like all border collies and many dogs,
Katz writes, he needed work. I didn't realize for some time I was
the work Orson would find. While Katz is trying to help his dog,
Orson is helping him, shepherding him toward a new life on a
two-hundred-year-old hillside farm in upstate New York. There,
aided by good neighbors and a tolerant wife, hip-deep in sheep,
chickens, donkeys, and more dogs, the man and his canine companion
explore meadows, woods, and even stars, wade through snow, bask by
a roaring wood stove, and struggle to keep faith with each other.
There, with deep love, each embraces his unfolding destiny. A Good
Dog is a book to savor. Just as Orson was the author's lifetime
dog, his story is a lifetime treasure-poignant, timeless, and
powerful. From the Hardcover edition.
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