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Cargando... The Dogs of Bedlam Farm: An Adventure with Sixteen Sheep, Three Dogs, Two Donkeys, and Me (edición 2005)por Jon Katz
Información de la obraThe Dogs of Bedlam Farm: An Adventure with Sixteen Sheep, Three Dogs, Two Donkeys, and Me por Jon Katz
   Nonhuman Protagonists (154) Best Dog Stories (78) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) jennybeast | Apr 14, 2022 |  ritaer | Aug 12, 2021 | ) fuzzi | Nov 23, 2019 |  ) suztales | May 30, 2015 | I enjoyed reading this book so much I plan to read the others he has written. His need to become the best person he can be is given a jump-start in the course of caring for his dogs. He recognizes that in order to help them he needs to develop patience, tolerance, and understanding. The dogs don't respond in positive ways when he is impatient with them. He feels responsible not only for their physical welfare but also for their lives as well-adjusted dogs, capable of enjoying purpose in their lives, and returning the love they are given. Border Collies have a high work drive and when kept as pets they often become destructive. Jon not only sees the benefit in working his Border Collies for their sake, but learns how to take care of his farm for his own sake also. As a reader, you will enjoy the ups and downs of Katzs' life as he tries to give his dogs the best possible lives and at the same time run a farm. What he learns from his dogs helps him to run his farm and maintain decent relationships with his neighbors. HIghly recommended. ( ) mmignano11 | Dec 9, 2012 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives. They can't really be held responsible for what they do. But we can." -from The Dogs of Bedlam Farm When Jon Katz adopted a border collie named Orson, his whole world changed. Gone were the two yellow Labs he wrote about in A Dog Year, as was the mountaintop cabin they loved. Katz moved into an old farmhouse on forty-two acres of pasture and woods with a menagerie: a ram named Nesbitt, fifteen ewes, a lonely donkey named Carol, a baby donkey named Fanny, and three border collies. Training Orson was a demanding project. But a perceptive dog trainer and friend told Katz: "If you want to have a better dog, you will just have to be a better goddamned human." It was a lesson Katz took to heart. He now sees his dogs as a reflection of his willingness to improve, as well as a critical reminder of his shortcomings. Katz shows us that dogs are often what we make them: They may have their own traits and personalities, but in the end, they are mirrors of our own lives-living, breathing testaments to our strengths and frustrations, our families and our pasts. The Dogs of Bedlam Farm recounts a harrowing winter Katz spent on a remote, windswept hillside in upstate New York with a few life-saving friends, ugly ghosts from the past, and more livestock than any novice should attempt to manage. Heartwarming, and full of drama, insight, and hard-won wisdom, it is the story of his several dogs forced Katz to confront his sense of humanity, and how he learned the places a dog could lead him and the ways a doge could change him. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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