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Delightful photographs that celebrate the bond between Jack Russell terriers and horses.

"...delightful pictures with sentimental captions that capture the personality of this breed..."--Plain Dealer

"...[the author] will win your hear with her marvelous little book...it's a treasure that will become a favorite with any all all recipients, dog lovers or not...what [the author] encapsulates in more than 50 color and black-and-white photos are absolute motion machines in action and delightfully somnolent beings in repose...this is one charming jewel that may require a double purchase-one for a gift and one for the giver to keep."--Sanford Herald

Beginning in the nineteenth century, when the hunting parson Reverend Jack Russell first bred the terrier that bears his name, these dogs have become great favorites of all species of creatures, from their owners and friends and neighbors to other canine breeds, cats, barnyard animals, and especially horses. Widely popular as both working and companion animals, Jack Russell Terriers can be found scampering around stables, dashing along riding trails, and at the rail of equestrian competitions of all varieties.
With more than fifty color and black-and-white photos of terriers in action and in repose—to the extent that these perpetual-motion machines are ever in repose!—and accompanied by evocative literary quotations, Jack Russell Terriers and Their Friends is the perfect companion for everyone whose life is touched by or entwined with these loveable creatures.

Marilyn Mackay-Smith, the award-winning equestrian photographer and a well-known breeder of Jack Russell terriers, is the author of Above and Below Ground. For many years her "Gamecock" calendar graced the walls of horse-lovers and dog fanciers. She lives in Boyce, Virginia.