Have you seen Tom's latest book?
Renowned equestrian writer and horseman, Tom Moates, is back. In his 14th book, Dogmanship, A Horseman's Ponderings, Moates turns his attention to a whole new realm—dogs!
"I've been working with dogs for years now, including a ton of rescue dogs and studying Border Collies up close at work—truly fascinating animals with an amazing capacity for connection with people," Moates explains. "As a horseman first, I tend to approach dogs in my second-nature horsemanship ways. Sometimes this approach and understanding is spot-on. Other times, well, no, not so much. I began writing about these canine experiences to clarify them in my own head. But soon that grew to a whole book's worth of thoughts and encounters to share with others."
One of America's most respected and prolific writers on the subject of horsemanship, Moates now shares with the reader how his unique view of horsemanship applies to training dogs. The result is a thorough rumination on how getting a dog's mind centered and with a person is as key to building a positive and willing relationship with canines as it is with equines.
Breakthroughs with troubled rescue dogs, training challenges, and conversations with celebrated horseman Harry Whitney and distinguished dogman Jack Knox and others—Dogmanship, A Horseman's Ponderings is the comprehensive chronicle on the ins and outs of building a truly willing relationship between dogs and humans.
About Tom Moates
Tom Moates is a leading equestrian journalist and author. This award winning writer is on the masthead of Equus magazine as a Contributing Writer, and his articles run in many horse magazines in the United States and abroad including: Ranch & Reata, Eclectic-Horseman, America’s Horse, and Western Horseman. Moates’s newest book, Six Colts, Two Weeks, joins his other titles, Discovering Natural Horsemanship, A Horse’s Thought, Between the Reins, Further Along the Trail, Going Somewhere, and Passing It On, all established titles in the library of modern horsemanship literature. A compilation of his most notable articles and essays, Round-Up: A Gathering of Equine Writings, was published in 2011. Moates lives on a solar powered farm with his wife Carol and a herd of horses in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Book ordering info and Moates’s latest publishing news are available at www.TomMoates.com.
There are miles of difference between journalists and writers, between reporting and telling a story. This is a sterling example of the latter. The writer here never gets in the way of what is a most engaging tale. The writer never succumbs to sensationalism or sentimentality, easy temptations with a subject of this nature. Word selection, pacing, organization--it's all here, beautiful in its simplicity, so much hard work appearing so effortless." From American Horse Publications: regarding Moates's award winning cover feature in Equus magazine, "A Cross-Country Ride Like No Other."
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