Dog and I
Confessions Of A Best Friend
1st Edition
Published on 3. July 2007
200 pages
978-0-14-318163-7 (ISBN)
Description
From Canadas beloved award-winning journalist and bestselling author comes a collection of essays, new and previously published, on mans best friend. In the course of 20 years of column writing about everything from politics to hockey and everything in between, Roy MacGregor has learned firsthand that the columns with the greatest reader impact have been those about the family dog. Roy has collected these columns and written many more on everything from puppy love to the sorrow of losing a pet, as experienced by Roy and the dogs hes known and loved.
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ROY MACGREGOR is the acclaimed and bestselling author of Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey (shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award); A Life in the Bush (winner of the US Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness Book and the CAA Award for Biography); and bestsellers Northern Light, Canoe Country and Original Highways; as well as two novels, Canoe Lake and The Last Season, and the popular Screech Owls mystery series for young readers. A longtime columnist for the Globe and Mail and numerous other newspapers and magazines, MacGregor won four National Magazine Awards and two National Newspaper Awards. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and was described in the citation as one of Canada's "most gifted storytellers."
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Condents
- Introduction
- Extreme Youth
- Mortification at the Fall Fair
- Shoes and Socks
- The Puppy Brain
- Care and Feeding, Then and Now
- Fetch. Fetch. Fetch.
- The Teen Years
- Alleged Adulthood
- Pawprinted Legacies of the Great
- Lost Dog at Twenty Below
- Merchandising Madness
- Dogs as Fashion Accessories
- Squirrels and Sisyphus
- In the Now of Mid-life
- So Very Old
- Dog in Winter
- Grizzled and on the Lam
- You Will Know When It's Time
- Walking Alone
- Dog Wonder
- Acknowledgments
