Dancing With Dogs

 I think it's ironic that Jon Katz wrote Dancing Dogs which is a book about dogs and his last name is Katz. This book is a collection of 16 short stories involving dogs. In one of the stories a woman starts a business taking her dogs to parties and nursing homes and entertaining them by dancing along with her dogs. Many of the dogs are rescues and many of the people rescuing the dogs are they themselves rescued by their canine companion. One story is set on a sheep farm where the sheep herding dog has just passed away. This dog's companion was larger than the dog but had learned to herd sheep effectively. When the farmer gets another sheep herding dog, this former sheep herding dog's companion is miffed and won't let the new dog do it's work. The farmer puts it in the barn as punishment and lets the new dog do the herding. The animal in the barn declines to the point where the farmer calls the vet. The vet listens to the story and tells the farmer what to do. The farmer must buy another donkey because the animal in the barn being punished does  not know it is a donkey but instead it thinks of itself as a dog. I didn't see that one coming. I enjoyed the 16 stories about dogs.