I WANTED TO EXPRESS my sincere appreciation for the excerpt
from Stanley Coren's book The Modern Dog about his cairn terrier, Flint
("My wife. My dog Flint. The war," Books, Dec. 29). As a fellow cairn
terrier owner, I laughed hysterically at some of Flint's more memorable antics.
I thought I was alone in the world with my soap-opera-watching, rodent-hunting,
tail-chasing and territorial terrier. I read the article out loud to my own
cairn, as she watched me inquisitively with her head tilted to the side. This
article also warns potential dog owners of the importance of making an informed
decision. Owning a cairn has absolutely enriched my life. Coren's story
effectively demonstrates that they are not everyone's cup of tea.
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Joseph Anderson, Kitchener, Ont.
WHY DID COREN need a dog to make him laugh? By giving two
pages to such a boring piece, Maclean's reeks of desperation. I've always
thought people with small, yappy dogs have major character flaws, or some sort
of mental or emotional deficit. The only halfway interesting part of this
segment was when Coren's canine freaked when it saw the rats on TV, and how the
mutt tried to follow the rats off-screen. As it stands, we got a cheap and
watered-down version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small. Not even
the Yorkshire moors could have saved this yawner.
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