A SCHOOLMASTER'S DOG
SHEEPDOG GLORY, by Roy Saunders; Andre Deutsch, through Oswald-Seely, 10/6. HE author of this book, though he trains and enters dogs in trials, is neither a farmer nor a shepherd, but a teacher of art in, Cardiff High School. When his turn comes to run his dog
the hard-heads nudge one another and whisper, but not so noticeably or contemptuously as they would in New Zealand. I don’t know what would happen in New Zealand if a miner from the West Coast or a shop assistant from Wellington entered a dog in the Dominion championships, but I am sure the secretary would suspect a hoax. In Wales everybody seems to be welcome if his dog is good enough; and that, in the opinion of Mr. Saunders, is, at the outset, shepherd’s lucky. If the pup you buy has it in him he will train you as fast as you train him-if you give him a chance. Mr. Saunders has not, when his story ends, won the international: but he has had national triumphs, and you do not doubt that greater things lie just ahead. In the meantime we get a clear, informed, and always interesting account of the dogs and shepherds of Wales, of the Border Collie breed, and of the difficulties of some of the trial courses. It igs an amateur’s exposition, not quite free from mumbo-jumbo-for example, a soulful but silent appeal to the dog before a run which the dog under- Stands; but most of it is plain factual stuff with which shepherds will have no quarrel. Owners and trainers of "eye" dogs will agree, I think, that the Cardiff schoolmaster knows" most of the lore
and all the tricks.
O.
D.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 902, 16 November 1956, Page 14
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288A SCHOOLMASTER'S DOG New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 902, 16 November 1956, Page 14
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