The New Roger Caras Treasury of Great Dog Stories

by Roger A. Caras

ACE 0884862097 (ISBN13: 9780884862093)

Good boy / Jane M. Lindskold --
The oracle of the dog / G.K. Chesterton --
Red dog / Rudyard Kipling --
Pelt / Carol Emshwiller --
The dachshund / Mark Twain --
Kerfol / Edith Wharton --
Silver Blaze / Arthur Conan Doyle --
The coon dog / Sarah Orne Jewett --
Deaths of distant friends / John Updike --
Lucifer and Hey-You / James Michener --
The last of the Winnebagos / Connie Willis --
Strange meets Matilda Jean / Patrick F. McManus --
Dogs / Ring Lardner --
Coyote and Quarter Moon / Bill Pronzini and Jeffrey Wallmann --
The law of club and fang / Jack London --
Josephine has her day / James Thurber --
The last dog / Mike Resnick --
A mess of skunks / Farley Mowat --
Dispatching Bootsie / Joyce Harrington --
Pat'tidge dog / Jim Kjelgaard --
Louis / Saki --
Winter dog / Alistair Macleod --
The great escape / James Herriot --
A contest fit for a queen / Susan Dunlap --
The pinchbug and the poodle / Mark Twain --
In the doghouse / Orson Scott Card with Jay A. Parry --
Penny and Willie / Bette Pesetsky --
Yellow journalism / Dave Barry --
Dog's lives / Michael Bishop --
Shaggy dog / Margaret Maron --
Like cats and dogs / Roger Caras.

467 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

Roger A. Caras was an American wildlife photographer, writer, wildlife preservationist and television personality.

Known as the host of the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Caras was a veteran of network television programs including "Nightline," "ABC News Tonight" and "20/20" before devoting himself to work as president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and to becoming an author.

Reviews

[Michelle Winters · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oh man!!! way too many sad stories, dogs getting hurt?!?!? That's not what I was to read in a dog book!