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Jon Katz at Slate
Here's a quick link to all the Jon Katz articles at Slate. The most recent, regarding a border collie in the dog underground railroad, seems to have caused a tiny uproar. Though I don't know if it can be called an uproar if it's tiny. In any case, more katz here:
Slate
http://slate.msn.com/id/2077581&qp=40207.
Jon Katz on Fresh Air
I just discovered this Fresh Air interview with Jon Katz, and quite enjoyed listening to it. You might enjoy it too.
Jon Katz Interview on Fresh Air
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1964311
Jon Katz
For awhile I considered calling this "The Jon Katz Adoration Page," but then I thought that might become redundant after reading what I had to say about Jon Katz on this page. So I'm calling it The Jon Katz Page, and I'll post thoughts and links and whatall about Jon Katz here, in an effort to get even more people to buy and read and adore Jon Katz books like I do. I'll post items in the order I read them or find them, so they'll likely appear here in reverse order, and I'll post a notice in the axis when there's an update here.
The New Work of Dogs
When I first learned that Jon Katz was going to blurb my book, my first response was, "who's Jon Katz?" When I found out who Jon Katz was, of course, I felt pretty stupid. His books, including The New Work of Dogs have pretty much become the dog books to read if you are at all interested in reading dog books. I had seen his books, but I'd never read one, in part because while I was writing my own dog book, I found that I couldn't read any dog books. I had to completely divorce myself from a genre that had recently become one of my favorites. So it has taken me until just now to finally pick one up and read it. And I'm stuffed full. I can't imagine why I hadn't read The New Work of Dogs before now.
The New Work of Dogs is just the right book for me at just the right time. In it, Mr. Katz makes a good case for all dogs--not just dogs herding sheep or leading the blind or sniffing bombs--are working dogs. They are working in our homes, performing a new kind of work, whether it be as companions or surrogates or lozenges, those dogs are definitely working, doing something in our lives that we can't necessarily do for ourselves. He spends a chapter with each of several dog "owners," shepherding us through their lives and how it is their dogs do some kind of major work. The book is touching and never cruel (though it would be easy to be cruel to some of the humans he explores), and though the book doesn't necessarily offer a sound-bite analysis of our relathionship with dogs, it does something only the best dog books do for me: it makes me spend more time with my dogs. It makes me want to help dogs in their work. It makes me want to read more Jon Katz. And it makes me a better human.
What more can you ask from a book than that it make you a better human?
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