Sophie is the farm dog at Happenchance Farm, one of the most successful and respected organic farms around where I live and she is one of the great farm dogs I have known. On Sundays, she comes with her farmer to the Cambridge Farmer’s Market, and she waits for him – in warm weather right underneath the stand, in cold weather like today, she finds a spot in the sun (today on the truck.) She does not run off, bark at people, or mind anyone’s business but her human. She is not grabbed and rubbed like a stuffed animals, she is happy to be close and to wait, she is trusted completely.

Great farms dogs are among the most wonderful dogs in the world, they are allowed to be the wonderful animals that they are, they are not turned into children and objects of need. Sophie is a Queen.