ANGUS: A Memoir.(Review)(Brief Article)

CHARLES SIEBERT. Crown, $21 (192p) ISBN 0-609-60494-5

Fearless, feisty and smart, Jack Russell terriers currently enjoy a popularity rivaled by few other breeds, thanks in part to TV shows like Frasier. In this slim, impressionistic "memoir," Angus, an 11-month-old Jack Russell born on a farm in Devon, relates his life story as he lies dying of wounds from a coyote attack. Bought at the age of eight weeks by an American couple, both writers, Angus is taken to a Cornish village at the western tip of England, where he spends the next six months endearing himself to, and growing to love, his new owners, whom he thinks of as "Huge Head" and "Sweet Voice." In charming, …