我将送你一只德国牧羊犬幼仔作为圣诞礼物。
现在，每当我听到朋友失去亲人，我不再打电话礼貌地提出“如果有什么我能做的……”相反，我试图想出一个特定的适合那人需要的任务，如带狗去寄宿养犬处，或在葬礼时看房子。
Now whenever I hear of a friend who's lost a loved one, I no longer call with the polite offer, "If there's anything I can do…" Instead I try to think of one specific task that suits that man's need, like taking the dog to the boarding kennel, or house sitting during the funeral.
他在《犬外》一书的结尾写道：“我固然知道一些事情。
“I do know some things,” he writes at the end of “Outside of a Dog”.
我住在一个农场里，那里有许多许多——犬舍到门廊间的小径、房子南面紧贴墙角的转弯处的小道、马匹踩出来的土痕，还有从一扇门到下一扇门之间的小路。
I live on a farm, and we have dozens. The path between the doghouse and the porch, the tight corner around the house on the south side, horse trails, the line between one gate and the next.
但正是切斯特像呼吸一样不假思索地施爱与人，正是它让我想起了这个很久以前就已订立了的人犬之间的契约。
But it was Chester who dispensed affection as unreflectively as he breathed who got me thinking about this long ago pact between humans and dogs.
因此我鼓励人们去尽可能多的犬舍，找尽可能多的训犬师。
I encourage people to go to as many clinics and clinicians as possible.
我们朝停直升机的南草坪走去，切尔西走在我和希拉里中间，家里的宠物犬巴迪在我旁边。摄影师们拍下的照片把我带给亲人的痛苦暴露无疑。
As we walked out to the South Lawn to get on the helicopter, with Chelsea between Hillary and me and Buddy walking beside me, photographers took pictures that revealed the pain I had caused.
牧羊犬洼地的面积，相当于两个我现在所住的房子，如果在那里使用太阳能电池板取暖的话，我们可能就要覆盖一到两英亩的面积去获取足够的电力了。
At Sheep Dog, which is twice the size of our current home, to use solar panels to effectively heat the whole house, we'd probably have to cover an acre or two to get enough electricity.
那也是为什么我在训练我的牧牛犬时有那么大的困难。
This is why I had such a hard time training my cattle dogs to herd.
我曾听说过那头大柯利牧羊犬喜欢孩子。
“我一开始不相信这些东西，但心理犬看来确实很有帮助。”费舍说。
"I was initially pretty skeptical about the whole thing, but the dogs do seem to help," said Fisher.
“我一开始不相信这些东西，但心理犬看来确实很有帮助。”费舍说。
"I was initially pretty skeptical about the whole thing but the dogs do seem to help" said Fisher.
敢问我们中间谁没有过碰到一条大丹犬在百老汇游荡的窘况，我打包票你们说过：这东西到底是要去哪儿？
Who amongst us hasn't seen a Great Dane trotting across Broadway and said: Where on Earth is that thing going home to?
我觉得，在人多的地方用这东西跟女孩子搭讪，比牵一条拉布拉多犬有效果多了。
Using this in a public place, I found, was more useful for starting conversations with girls than having a Labrador on a leash.
我就不希望在火灾、一氧化碳中毒或其它灾难中失去我养的苏格兰牧羊犬麦奇和虎斑猫露西。
I know I wouldn't want to lose Maggie, my collie, or Lucy, my Tabby cat, to a fire, carbon monoxide poisoning or Lord knows what else.
也是她让我开始接触畜牧犬测试，让我懂得了很多知识，而这些知识最终促使我开始训练我的下一只澳洲牧牛犬。
She introduced me to stock dog trials and taught me a whole lot, which enabled me to begin training my next ACD.
我是一只德国牧羊犬，小时候，我现在的老爸收养了我。
"I am a German Shepherd and my Dad got me as a puppy," it reads.
在家，我读了阿尔伯特·佩森·特修关于柯利牧羊犬的书(我们家有一只柯利牧羊犬)，我父亲的《哈迪男孩》，我母亲的路易莎。梅。爱尔考特小说。
At home, there were books by Albert Payson Terhune about collies (we had a collie) and my father's Hardy Boys collection and my mother's Louisa May Alcott novels.
但是在五个警察和一条德国牧羊犬闯进门一路把尖叫的马克拖进一辆厢式汽车时，我也不需要强硬。
But I don't need to be when there's five polis and a German Shepherd dog breaking down the door and dragging Marc screaming down the path and into a van.
我不会把你们当做“两条腿的犬”，因为我知道你们是人类，尽管你们古怪诡诈，我依然爱你们。
I do not think of you as a "Dog on two feet" - I know what you are. You are human, in all of your quirkiness, and I love you still.
我不会把你们当做“两条腿的犬”，因为我知道你们是人类，尽管你们古怪诡诈，我依然爱你们。
I do not think of you as a "Dog on two feet" - I know what you are.You are human, in all of your quirkiness, and I love you still.
我参加了一个俱乐部，那里除了我和我的旅途伙伴的狗以外，其作都是边境牧羊犬。
I attended a herding clinic on beautiful Vancouver Island and the dogs entered were all border collies, except for my travel partner's and my own.
那是我刚开始训练我九个月大的澳洲牧牛犬时的反应。
That was my reaction when I first began training with Brew, my nine-month old Australian Cattle Dog.
“好吧，比利，”他说，“我听说‘老头帽’农场的牧羊犬要生小崽了。
"Well, Billy, " he said, "I heard that Old Man Hatfield's collie is going to have pups.
我考虑再收养一只小狗；我正在寻找一只比劳拉大点的小狗，30到40磅左右，比如说一只纯种的英国伯德牧羊犬。
I am on the prowl for another shelter dog for myself; I’m looking for something a little bigger than Nora, say 30 or 40 pounds, and some type of border collie mix.
“爸爸，”我说，“我不想要一只老牧羊犬。”
那人继续说，“我总是有一种幻觉，觉得自己是条狗，是条巨大的、白色的毛的比利牛斯山脉犬。”
I keep hallucinating that I'm a dog. A large, white, hairy Pyrenees mountain dog.
真情告白：我是一个不做瑜伽的印度人，我不知道下犬式。
True confession: I am an Indian who doesn't do yoga. I wouldn't know a downward dog if it bit me.
真情告白：我是一个不做瑜伽的印度人，我不知道下犬式。
True confession: I am an Indian who doesn't do yoga. I wouldn't know a downward dog if it bit me.
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