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Author Katz, Jon.

Title A good dog : the story of Orson, who changed my life / Jon Katz.

Publication Info. New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007.
©2006

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  636.7 KATZ 2007    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  636.7 KAT    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  636.7374 KATZ    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  636.7 KAT    Check Shelf
Edition 2007 Random House trade paperback edition.
Description 240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note Originally published in hardcover: New York : Villard Books, 2006.
"Includes a new afterword"--Cover.
Summary "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." Author 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, their relationship is deep, stormy, and loving. 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, herb and alternative therapies--helps a little but not enough, and not for long. 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.--From publisher description.
Subject Dogs -- New Jersey -- Anecdotes.
Dogs -- Behavior -- New Jersey -- Anecdotes.
Human-animal relationships -- New Jersey -- Anecdotes.
Border collie -- New Jersey -- Anecdotes.
Katz, Jon.
ISBN 9780812971491 paperback
0812971493 paperback
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