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Border Collie Books
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Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men: Searching Through Scotland For A Border Collie (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as border-collie)
avg rating 4.15 — 210 ratings — published 1991
The Dog Wars: How the Border Collie Battled the American Kennel Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as border-collie)
avg rating 4.08 — 60 ratings — published 2007
Answers to Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as border-collie)
avg rating 4.12 — 460 ratings — published
Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as border-collie)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,544 ratings — published
Perfect Puppy in 7 Days: How to Start Your Puppy Off Right (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as border-collie)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,304 ratings — published 2011
How to Behave So Your Dog Behaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as border-collie)
avg rating 4.27 — 973 ratings — published 2004
The Culture Clash (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as border-collie)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,789 ratings — published 1997
The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as border-collie)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,670 ratings — published 2002
Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as border-collie)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,800 ratings — published 1984
Boomer the Border Collie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as border-collie)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Key Dogs from the Border Collie Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as border-collie)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1993
A Way of Life: Sheepdog Training, Handling and Trialling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as border-collie)
avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published 2002
Hooked on Ewe (Scottish Highlands, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as border-collie)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,633 ratings — published 2015
Imago (Imago, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as border-collie)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,701 ratings — published 2017
The Road Home (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as border-collie)
avg rating 3.96 — 46 ratings — published 2010
Border Collie Haiku (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as border-collie)
avg rating 4.24 — 29 ratings — published 2011
Nop's Trials (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as border-collie)
avg rating 4.11 — 816 ratings — published 1984
“The trainer Tony Illey has said, “The most difficult thing I ever saw a dog do was bring a ewe who’d just lost her lamb through a field full of lambing ewes.”
Let me offer a gloss: Ewes with new lambs are extremely protective of their lambs and often charge a dog. When they lose sight of their lamb, they assume the dog has killed it, and despite his teeth will try determinedly to trample him. A ewe who’s lost her lamb will rush back and forth seeking it, bleating to other newborn lambs trying to collect one. The other mothers are confused by this, and when the dog gets near them they, too, go on the attack.
Unlike Tony Illey, I don’t think what this dog did was difficult. It was impossible. Knowing that the dog can read sheep better than any man and can react much quicker than any man, what commands would you give him?
Correct answer: his name.”
― Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men: Searching Through Scotland For A Border Collie
Let me offer a gloss: Ewes with new lambs are extremely protective of their lambs and often charge a dog. When they lose sight of their lamb, they assume the dog has killed it, and despite his teeth will try determinedly to trample him. A ewe who’s lost her lamb will rush back and forth seeking it, bleating to other newborn lambs trying to collect one. The other mothers are confused by this, and when the dog gets near them they, too, go on the attack.
Unlike Tony Illey, I don’t think what this dog did was difficult. It was impossible. Knowing that the dog can read sheep better than any man and can react much quicker than any man, what commands would you give him?
Correct answer: his name.”
― Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men: Searching Through Scotland For A Border Collie
“The sheepdog trial is a contest of farm and ranch dogs doing the same work they do every day at home. It's a simple test: dog runs out, gathers sheep, and fetches them to his shepherd. Dog drives the sheep through obstacles. Then dog and man sort the sheep and pen them. Any halfway decent sheepdog can do it but some are better than others”
― Mr. and Mrs. Dog: Our Travels, Trials, Adventures, and Epiphanies
― Mr. and Mrs. Dog: Our Travels, Trials, Adventures, and Epiphanies
