James Herriot's dog stories
This was a wonderful, passionate book about, well, James Herriot's favorite dog stories. Theywere all true, some funny, some inspirational, and some sad. I have picked out some of my One of my all-time favorites is "Roy: From rags to riches." It's about a young, almostfull-grown golden retriever, badly neglected and almost dead that was found in an old shack. Anold gypsy woman who had just lost her terrier to a car accident claimed him when they wereabout to put him to sleep. For a month they were not seen anywhere, until the day she broughthim outside. He was pure gold, healthy and loved. Although Dr. Herriot didn't do anything, itwas obvious why this made it into the collection. Another great one was "Jock: Top dog." Jock was a Border Collie living out on a farm. Bytradition, he would always chase people's cars down the long lane up to the farm. It was one ofhis biggest joys in life. But the farmer bought one of the healthiest bitches in the area, and shehad puppies with Jock. With both of the parent's health and vigor, they began to outpace Jock,even in his art of car chasing. But once they were sold and gone, Jock was still Top Dog.
It was obvious why James Herriot devoted three out of ten stories to Tricki. It makes you thinkabout the morality of animal testing, veal and feedlots, animal abusers, etc. It can really be for any age people,although the vocabulary is a little British, but what do you expect. He was no philosopher; nodeep ideas in his writing, but it's still good. James Herriot's other titles explain this-All Things Wise andWonderful, All Creatures Great and Small, etc. This concept disagrees with theidea of man's dominion over the earth, and manifest destiny and all of that. It was the swimmingthat made him sick. The last, but one of the best stories was "Brandy: The dustbin dog. For awhile itlooked grim for Brandy, but then miraculously he gradually got better. But that's okay since hisfavorite ones aren't probably ones where people die. Humphrey, couldn't stand to see him "suffer,"so she even gave him chocolate and such (she was extremely rich). From what I've read it seems that people telling about their own real-life experiences(like Mr. I would recommend this book to any dog or animal lover.
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