Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

--- Groucho Marx

PERIODICALS

Magazines are an excellent source of information on the herding border collie. The following ones contain advice on training and handling, information on upcoming trials and clinics, trial results, veterinary information, articles about better-known dogs and handlers, and reviews and ads for training books and videos.

AMERICAN BORDER COLLIE

This magazine, while not officially defunct, has not published in some time.  The last issue produced was March/April 2006, and subscribers report difficulty in getting refunds.

THE WORKING BORDER COLLIE
14933 Kirkwood Road
Sidney, OH 45365
bi-monthly
$35 per year
$45 Canada (U.S. funds only)

THE RANCH DOG TRAINER (includes other breeds)
Cyn-Dee Cooper, Publisher/Editor
P.O. Box 437
Odessa, MO 64076
(816) 633-5321
ranchdog@earthlink.net
bi-monthly
$30 per year
$35 Canada

THE SHEPHERD'S DOGGE
51 Farwell Road
Tyngsboro, MA 01879
quarterly: $20 per year

WORKING SHEEPDOG NEWS
Enterprise Tamar
St. Thomas Road
Launceston, Cornwall
PL15 8BU
U.K.
bi-monthly
$49 (US) surface mail
$55 (US) airmail

BOOKS

The following books are widely available, useful and/or entertaining.  For a good source for books about sheepdogs, check out DogDazes.com and Toft East Publishing's catalog of books about working sheepdogs.

Training

A Way of Life: Sheepdog Training, Handling and Trialing
H. Glyn Jones/Barbara C. Collins
Farming Press, Ltd. 1987

Working Sheep Dogs: Management and Training
John Templeton/Matt Mundell
Howell Book House, Inc. 1988

Training the Sheep Dog
Thomas Longton and Barbara Sykes
Crowood Press 1997

The Farmer's Dog
John Holmes
Popular Dogs Pub. Co., Ltd. 1960 (revised 1984)

Herding Dogs: Progressive Training
Vergil Holland
Howell Book House 1995

The Sheepdog--Its Work and Training
Tim Longton and Edward Hart
Newton Abbot 1976

Lessons from a Stock Dog: A Training Guide
Bruce Fogt
The Working Border Collie, Inc. 1996

History

National Sheepdog Champions of Britain & Ireland 1922-1993
E.B. Carpenter
Farming Press Books 1994

Key Dogs from the Border Collie Family
Sheila Grew
Heritage Farms Pub. Co. 1993

Sheep Dogs and Their Masters
John Herries McCulloch/Dee Woessner
Toft East Publishing 1994 (first published 1938)

Fiction

Nop's Trials
Donald McCaig
The Lyons Press. 1984

Nop's Hope
Donald McCaig
The Lyons Press. 1994

One Dog, His Man and His Trials (humor)
Marjorie Quarton
Blackstaff Press 1993

Children's Fiction

Only One Woof
James Herriot
St. Martin's Press 1985

Floss
Kim Lewis
Candlewick Press 1991

The Shepherd Boy
Kim Lewis
Candlewick Press 1990

Some Fine Dog
Patti Shenloch
Holiday House 1992

Chummy, The Story of a Champion
Brenda Munitich
De Jager-Haum 1986

General

Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men: Searching Through Scotland for a Border Collie
Donald McCaig
The Lyons Press. 1991

Training Videos

Starting Your Border Collie on Cattle, Sheep, or Ducks
Rural Route Videos

Come Bye! and Away! The Early Stages of Sheepdog Training
H. Glyn Jones

That'll Do! Widening the Sheepdog's Experience
H. Glyn Jones

Take Time!
H. Glyn Jones

Sources

THE DOG HOUSE
2915 Anderson Lane
Crawford, TX 76638
(817) 486-2500

DIAMOND FARM BOOK PUBLISHERS
Dept. RD, Box 537
Alexandria Bay, NY 13607
(613) 475-1771

BORDER COLLIES IN ACTION
Route 2, Box 54D
Tulelake, CA 96134
(800) 833-0332

HI-RIDGE FARM
R.R. 3, Napanee, Ontario
Canada K7R 3K8
(613) 354-4433

RURAL ROUTE VIDEOS
P.O. Box 359, Austin, Manitoba
ROH OCO Canada
(800) 823-7703

Complete List of Border Collie Books

The Border Collie Museum's Bibliography

General Dog Publications (by Cindy Tittle Moore)

Last updated June 14, 2007