A Good Dog: The Story of Orson, Who Changed My Life

A Good Dog: The Story of Orson, Who Changed My Life

â€œPeople who love dogs often talk about a â€˜lifetimeâ€™ dog. Iâ€™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.â€â€“Jon Katz

In this gripping and deeply touching book, bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of his lifetime dog, Orson: a beautiful border collieâ€“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, Katzâ€™s new companion is a great herder of school buses, a scholar of refrigerators, but a dud at herding sheep. Everything Katz attemptsâ€“ obedience training, herding instruction, a new name, acupuncture, herb and alternative therapiesâ€“helps a little but not enough, and not for long. â€œLike all border collies and many dogs,â€ Katz writes, â€œhe needed work. I didnâ€™t realize for some time I was the work Orson would find.â€
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 authorâ€™s lifetime dog, his story is a lifetime treasureâ€“poignant, timeless, and powerful.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780812971491
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2007-06-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812971491

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780812971491
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2007-06-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812971491

A Good Dog: The Story of Orson, Who Changed My Life

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