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A Useful Dog by Donald McCaig

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3.0

This is the same author who wrote Nop's Trials and Nop's Hope, which I read earlier this year. I enjoyed both of those books but this one, a slim little volume (only 80 pages long) was a disappointment. It's a series of short stories by the author. Only one of the stories, the three-page "Passports," was really touching. Most of the stories seemed to veer off the idea of the book, which is stories about working stockdogs. One tread right into the problems with purebred dogs and genetic issues without really saying much about working stockdogs. Overall, it wasn't really worth the money.
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