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Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories
Albert Payson Terhune
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Buff: A Collie and Other Dog-Stories is one of many popular books written by Albert Payson Terhune that have delighted dog lovers for decades. Terhune loved dogs, and he bred and raised collies at his Sunnybank Kennels. Terhune sometimes included difficult passages in his stories, and he did not always conclude with the typical "happy ending"--but his passion for dogs was always clearly evident in his novels. An excerpt from the Foreword to this book in which Terhune describes the nature of a dog:
"Service that asks no price; forgiveness free
For injury or for injustice hard.
Buff: A Collie and Other Dog-Stories is one of many popular books written by Albert Payson Terhune that have delighted dog lovers for decades. Terhune loved dogs, and he bred and raised collies at his Sunnybank Kennels. Terhune sometimes included difficult passages in his stories, and he did not always conclude with the typical "happy ending"--but his passion for dogs was always clearly evident in his novels. An excerpt from the Foreword to this book in which Terhune describes the nature of a dog:
"Service that asks no price; forgiveness free
For injury or for injustice hard.
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Trent shifted to the opposite paddock, whence he had turned the second flock of thirty into the central enclosure. And here Buff repeated his unerring performance.
Though Trent was filled with amazed admiration at his pet’s discernment, yet he recognised there was nothing miraculous in it. Buff had herded both these new flocks into the paddocks at least three times before, on their way from pasture, during the few days Trent had owned them. He had become familiar with their scents and their separate identities, after the uncanny fashion of the best sort of working collie.
As the job ended, and Trent started homeward, with Buff trotting chummily beside him, a slender black saddle-horse came single-footing around the bend of the road between the paddocks and the farmhouse. Astrid. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I reread this book now and then. It's been part of my life almost as long as I can remember. Straightforward stories about noble dogs and somewhat less noble humans that consistently bring me to tears. I left this book at my parents' home so that they can introduce the next generation to these stori
A collection of dog stories by Terhune, a mix of general fiction and some (probably also fictionalized) anecdotes about his own, famous Sunnybank collies. Stories by a dog lover for dog lovers. This is one of my favorite authors.
Dogs are my fav. I liked how it was from dogs point of view.
As I would happily re-read this book as well as recommend it to others, it gets 5 stars from me. I learned more about collie (and pit bull) behavior. While it makes me sad and mad when Terhune writes about how people maltreat dogs, I know from my personal experience that sometimes humans are cruel.
What a peculiar mix of stories.
At the outset, Buff: a Collie, strikes almost as an inspiration caused by the "compromise" between Master and Mistress in The Coming of Lad, for Buff is only mostly collie, but partially the sort of terrier the Master is said to have wanted. This has little bearing on
I loved it. What a great collection of stories.