Once they become AKC registered, the newspapers will become flooded with ads for them. And you'll see Border collies in pet stores and animal shelters.
It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.
Believe in your work.
That we have altered the dog genetically is well understood; it is hardly known how they changed us.
I am built funny. Picture Mark Twain's head on Ichabod Crane's body. Now hold your mental picture to the light and crumple it.
Driving alone, you can make 800 miles a day.
If you get a dog that goes out there and bumps the sheep, comes on too hard, the sheep don't trust him.
The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.
What we didn't realize then - and one of the many things Timothy Leary was wrong about - is that when you drop out, you inevitably also drop in.
Had we settled in Pennsylvania, there's no way I would have written a Confederate novel.
A sheepdog trial is the most difficult test of a man and dog ever devised.
I'm out of the terse Hemingway school.
I do not believe you can work with animals - certainly you cannot train them - without deciding that if humans have souls, dogs do, too.
When people say what is 'Gone With the Wind' about, they say it's a love story between Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. But Mammy is almost a third party.
The majority of border collie owners and breeders don't want to have anything to do with the show ring.
Border collies predate the British Kennel Club. They've been bred consistently for 100 years. They're the last working dogs in the world, with some minor exceptions. Bench shows, dog shows have ruined the other breeds, like the hunting dogs. Border collies are peasant dogs, and that's protected them.
Border collies were trained in Scotland. They have the Scots' commands in their genes. At the dog trials, the owners wear those three-piece western suits, cowboy boots and 10-gallon hats, but they carry Scots shepherd's crooks over their arms and talk to their dogs in Scots accents.
You have to train a dog to think.
I'm a workaday writer.
I'd rather talk about dogs than about me.
