Ranyhyn
Well-Known Member
Please please, download, buy or find this book and re-read.
As a child my heart was moved by glorious, heart wrenching Lad and his exlpoits. This book formulated a lot of my ideals in a dog and also in dog ownership. The writing is beautiful and often very moving. A true dog person's book.
An exerpt:
"Lad was an eighty-pound collie, thoroughbred in
spirit as well as in blood. He had the benign dig-
nity that was a heritage from endless generations
of high-strain ancestors. He had, too, the gay
courage of a d'Artagnan, and an uncanny wisdom.
Also who could doubt it, after a look into his
mournful brown eyes he had a Soul.
His shaggy coat, set off by the snowy ruff and
chest, was like orange-flecked mahogany. His ab-
surdly tiny forepaws in which he took inordinate
pride were silver white. "
As a child my heart was moved by glorious, heart wrenching Lad and his exlpoits. This book formulated a lot of my ideals in a dog and also in dog ownership. The writing is beautiful and often very moving. A true dog person's book.
An exerpt:
"Lad was an eighty-pound collie, thoroughbred in
spirit as well as in blood. He had the benign dig-
nity that was a heritage from endless generations
of high-strain ancestors. He had, too, the gay
courage of a d'Artagnan, and an uncanny wisdom.
Also who could doubt it, after a look into his
mournful brown eyes he had a Soul.
His shaggy coat, set off by the snowy ruff and
chest, was like orange-flecked mahogany. His ab-
surdly tiny forepaws in which he took inordinate
pride were silver white. "
Although it is justified with it's realism... the outcome of the book is quite easily imaginable. 
I've put Lad on my list for 'next time I've been drinking long enough to forget I really have to budget and thus go mental on amazon, but purchase at least one vaguely academic text in order to justify the huge package of reading-goodness arriving in it's exciting cardboard box'.........