(From the book jacket)
When Jon Katz adopted a border collie named Orson, his whole world changed. Gone were the two yellow Labs he wrote about in A Dog Year, as was the mountaintop cabin they loved. Katz moved into an old farmhouse on fory-two acres of pasture and woods with a menagerie: a ram named Nesbitt, fifteeen ewes, a lonely donkey named Carol, a baby donkey named Fanny, and the border collies Orson, Homer, and Rose.
The Dogs of Bedlam Farm recounts a harrowing winter Katz spent on a remote, windswept hillside in upstate New York with a few life-saving friends, ugly ghosts from the past, and more livestock than any novice should attempt to manage. Heartwarming and full of drama, insight, and hard-won wisdom, it's the story of how his dogs forced Katz to confront his sense of humanity, and how he learned the places a dog could lead him and the ways a dog could change him.