A LITERARY COLLIE DOG

AND THEREBY HANGS A TAIL

memoirs of a border collie puppy

‘Brains before beauty’ they say about collies because they have not been bred to a breed standard but for working with people.

Teifi-Dog came to me as a nine week old puppy from my friends’ farm, the only one of my collies that was not a rescue dog. I shall not say a lot about him here as he manages that for himself in his book.

AND THEREBY HANGS A TAIL – memoirs of a collie puppy as he grows up to become a ‘proper sheepdog’.  By Teifi-Dog. Edited by Daffni Percival

And Thereby Hangs a Tail in Colour at £7 (free delivery)

The memoirs of a border collie puppy as he
grows up to become what his mother told him he should.

Here is the poem he wrote when he was left with a dog sitter for a few days.

The Dog’s Lament

The boss has gone; I’m a lonely dog;
I haven’t the spirit to prowl;
I look at my biscuits with jaundiced eye
And I sit by the door and howl.

I am the back-seat-driver,
I should be there in the van;
It’s me that keeps an eye on the road,
Not a damned computer plan.

The rain is dripping, the sheep are wet;
I can’t be bothered to bark;
I don’t give a damn what the ducks are doing;
My world has gone woefully dark.

Wispy, promiscuous bitch,
Is making eyes at the sitter;
But I am a serious collie dog
And I say it doesn’t befit her.

I know that we’ve been dumped
While the boss goes off on the spree.
It ain’t right; she loses all sorts of things,
But never drives off without me.

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