American - Novelist | January 1, 1940 -
A young dog's faith is absolute... Dogs are notorious for hope. Dogs believe that this morning, this very morning, may begin a day of fascination, easily grander than any day in the past.
Donald McCaig
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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.
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If you get a dog that goes out there and bumps the sheep, comes on too hard, the sheep don't trust him.
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Had we settled in Pennsylvania, there's no way I would have written a Confederate novel.
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I do not believe you can work with animals - certainly you cannot train them - without deciding that if humans have souls, dogs do, too.
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Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us.
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It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.
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Though each trainer believes his or her method is best, I don't think it matters which method the pet owner adopts so long as that owner finds a capable mentor and sticks with the training. Eventually you will learn to see your dog, and when that happens, the richness of your and your dog's lives will tell you what to do next.
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Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops.
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I'm out of the terse Hemingway school.
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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.
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The majority of border collie owners and breeders don't want to have anything to do with the show ring.
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