"Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives.
A member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, he writes a column about Dogs for.
A two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award, he has written for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and the AKC Gazette.
About the Author: JON Katz has written thirteen books--six novels and seven works of nonfiction, including A Dog Year and The New Work of Dogs.
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.
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.
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.
He now sees his Dogs as a reflection of his willingness to improve, as well as a critical reminder of his shortcomings.
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.
Training Orson was a demanding project.
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.
Gone were the two yellow Labs he wrote about in A Dog Year, as was the mountaintop cabin they loved.
But we can."-from The Dogs of Bedlam Farm When Jon Katz adopted a border collie named Orson, his whole world changed.
They can\'t really be held responsible for what they do. "Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives
