- Every Dog Has His Day
The 10th book in the
Hank the Cowdog book series.Plot
Starts off with people coming to the ranch to round up the
cow s. With them they bring Benny, a quick-wittedborder collie , who Hank takes a disliking to right away. They also bring Miss Scampers, abeagle , who Hank thinks he is in love with. Later on to stop Hank from getting in the way, High Loper, ties him up and Benny takes his place to round up the cows. Hank tries to get Drover to help him but Drover runs away to see Miss Scampers. Pete the localcat then shows up and begins teasing Hank. Hank jumps at Pete over and over again and in the end the rope snaps. Miss Scampers is impressed but she thinks that Benny could do a better job. So Hank stands in the way of the gate to not let anything pass. But when the cows do come through, and his blocking of them makes the humans angry. So Hank runs off, and in the woods he is found by the twocoyotes Rip and Snort, the twoturkey vultures Junior and Wallace are nearby waiting for the coyotes to make the kill. To stop from getting eaten Hank decides to have the First Wolf Creek Decathlon, Hank wins and the coyotes can't eat him and they leave angrily. Hank then goes off and in the scrub he finds Benny who says that High Loper is stuck in quicksand. Benny then runs off. Hank find High Loper and pulls him out the quicksand via the rope around his neck. They return to the ranch house and the book ends.Major Characters
*Hank- Head of Ranch Security
*Drover- Hank's assistant
*Pete- cat
*Miss Scampers- beagle
*Benny- Border Collie, antagonist in book
*Rip- coyote, villain in book
*Snort- coyote, villain in book
*Wallace- turkey vulture
*Junior- turkey vultureReferences
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Herding
*Quicksand
*cattle
*songs Links
http://www.hankthecowdog.com/
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