West Texas -- The Education of a Dog Man -- Overcoming the Home Court Advantage -- Mr. and Mrs. Dog -- What Your Dog is Trained to Do and Why -- The Trainer's Trainer -- A Desperate Gamble -- The E-collar -- Mrs. Dog Buys Our Ticket -- Behaviorism -- Positive Trainer Pat Miller -- The Last Dog Still Standing -- Listening to Dr. Dodman -- Some Epiphanies -- Ethology -- Drives -- A Thousand Yards -- One More River to Cross -- "That's a Good Boy" -- "It Can't Have Been Easy to Arrange" -- Welsh Roads (A Rant) -- Hafod Bridge -- Fifteen Minutes of Fame -- The Standard -- The Dogs' Sabbath -- The Parade of Flags and Dogs -- Bad Sheep -- Eternity in an Hour -- Only a Dog -- Your Dog -- First Friends -- The Double Lift
Summary
The author draws on twenty-five years of experience raising sheepdogs to vividly describe his--and his dogs June and Luke's--unlikely progress toward and participation in the World Sheepdog Trials in Wales
