Notes
Introduction: Confessions of a Dog Hoarder
Angela R. Perri, et. al., “Dog Domestication and the Dual Dispersal of People and Dogs into the Americas,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America 118, no. 6 (February 9, 2021), https://www.pnas.org/content/118/6/e2010083118.
Donna Haraway, When Species Meet (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), 16.
Joshua Berlinger, “Opting for Pets over Children Is Selfish and ‘Takes Away Our Humanity,’ Says Pope Francis,” CNN, January 5, 2022, https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/05/europe/pope-dogs-cats-kids-intl/index.html.
Greg Rosalsky, “How ‘The Pet Revolution’ Unleashed a New Top Dog in America,” NPR, April 10, 2021, https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/08/10/1025596981/how-the-pet-revolution-unleashed-a-new-top-dog-in-america.
Terry Nguyen, “Dogfishing: When Online Daters Pose with Adorable Pets That Aren’t Theirs,” Washington Post, August 12, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/08/12/dogfishing-when-online-daters-pose-with-adorable-pets-that-arent-theirs/.
Margaret Renkl, “Everything I Know about Hope I Learned from My Dog,” New York Times, July 5, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/opinion/hope-dogs.html.
Patrick Pester, “How Did Coyotes Become Regular City Slickers?” Live Science, March 21, 2021, https://www.livescience.com/why-coyotes-in-cities.html.
John McLaughlin, The Canine Clan: A New Look at Man’s Best Friend (New York: Viking, 1983), xii.
McLaughlin, ix.
See Colin Dayan, With Dogs at the Edge of Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016), The Law Is a White Dog (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2013) and Animal Quintet (Los Angeles: Los Angeles Review of Books, 2020); Joshua Bennett’s Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020); Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018); Harlan Weaver’s Bad Dog: Pitbull Politics and Multispecies Justice (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021); and Donna Haraway’s When Species Meet, for a few titles that discuss dogs in relationship to settler colonialism, racism, and gender violence.
Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men (New York: Scribners, 1976), 4.
Dayan, With Dogs at the Edge of Life, 3.
Dayan, xvi.
Personal conversation, October 25, 2021. See also Linda Stone, “The Essential Self: Health beyond the Numbers,” Lindastone.net, December 6, 2013, https://lindastone.net/2013/12/06/the-essential-self-health-beyond-the-numbers/.
1. Life: “Adopt, Don’t Shop” and the Terror of the Fence
Amanda Mull, “Why Are Millennials So Obsessed with Dogs?” Atlantic, July 29, 2021, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/why-millennials-are-so-obsessed-with-dogs/619489/.
Nicole Spector, “One Big Reason Millennials Are Buying Homes? For Their Dogs,” NBCnews.com, August 9, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/business/real-estate/one-big-reason-millennials-are-buying-homes-their-dogs-n790921.
Mull, n.p.
Alexandra Horowitz, “Dogs, at least, Love Home Quarantine,” New York Times, March 27, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/coronavirus-dogs.html.
Michael Levenson, “No, People Are Not Returning Pandemic Dogs in Droves,” New York Times, May 22, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/22/us/dog-adoptions-pandemic.html.
Allie Conti, “No, You Beg. Adopting Used to Be a Good Thing That Good People Could Do. These Days, You’re Probably Not Good Enough,” The Cut, July 29, 2021, https://www.thecut.com/2021/07/why-adopting-a-rescue-dog-is-so-hard-right-now.html.
Jennifer Billock, “Want to Adopt a Pet? Prepare for a Full Background Check,” New York Times, June 22, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/style/pet-adoption-application.html.
Wade Roush, “Linda Stone’s Antidote to the Quantified Self: The Essential Self,” xconomy.com, August 8, 2014, https://xconomy.com/national/2014/08/08/linda-stones-antidote-to-quantified-self-the-essential-self/.
Susan Pinker, “Do Dogs Really Make Us Happier?” Wall Street Journal, December 30, 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-dogs-really-make-us-happier-11609348272.
Mull, n.p.
Lucy Campbell, “Many New Dog Owners in UK Hope to Bring Pet into Work as Lockdown Eases,” Guardian, July 12, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/12/new-dog-owners-hope-pets-office-welcome-home-alone.
Helen Mort, Never Leave the Dog Behind (Sheffield, UK: Vertebrate Publishing, 2020), 10.
Dayan, 44.
Mort, 13.
Dayan, 45.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press), 43.
Tsing, 46.
2. Food: The Working Dog and the Invention of Enrichment
https://www.schoolforthedogs.com/puzzles-for-dogs-and-why-they-matter-98048/.
Haraway, 53.
Roland Boer, “The Bible and the Soviet Constitution of 1936,” Political Theology Network, April 18, 2015, https://politicaltheology.com/the-bible-and-the-soviet-constitution-of-1936/.
Lauren Berlant, “Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency),” Critical Inquiry, special issue “On the Case,” ed. Lauren Berlant, 33, no. 4 (Summer 2007): 754.
Susan Paretts, “How to Tell If Your Dog Is in Shape or Overweight,” American Kennel Club website, August 7, 2019, https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/health/how-to-tell-if-your-dog-is-fat/.
Rachel Nuwer, “Dog Domestication May Have Begun Because Paleo Humans Couldn’t Stomach the Original Paleo Diet,” Scientific American, January 7, 2021, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dog-domestication-may-have-begun-because-paleo-humans-couldnt-stomach-the-original-paleo-diet/.
Berlant, 777.
3. Order: The Persistence of the Pack
See chapter 5 of Dayan, With Dogs at the Edge of Life.
Lopez, 33.
David Mech, “Alpha Status, Dominance, and Division of Labor in Wolf Packs,” Canadian Journal of Zoology 77: 1196–1203, http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/2000/alstat/alstat.htm.
https://www.tiktok.com/@imcesarmillan/video/6990781546575793414
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota press, 1987), 242.
See Margret Grebowicz, “Ecology after Dark: Chernobyl’s Wild Horses and the Traffic in Desire,” Minnesota Review 96 (2021), https://read.dukeupress.edu/the-minnesota-review/article-abstract/2021/96/56/173390/Ecology-after-DarkChernobyl-s-Wild-Horses-and-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext.
Nina Metz, “‘Dog Whisperer’ Cesar Millan on Why American Have So Many Problems with Their Dogs,” Chicago Tribune, February 16, 2017, https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-cesar-millan-tv-chicago-0217-20170216-column.html.
For another version of this argument, see Margret Grebowicz, “You Are Not the Boss of Your Dog,” Slate, September 21, 2021, https://slate.com/technology/2021/09/cesar-millan-dominance-theory-dog-training.html.
Conclusion: Familiaris
Dayan, 21.
Haraway, 20.
McLaughlin, x.
Tsing, 43.
Tsing, 163.
Lopez, 18.
Colin Dayan, “Dogs Are Not People,” Boston Review, January 12, 2014, https://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/colin-dayan-dogs-are-not-people-humanity.
Leigh Beeson, “Dog Parasite Is Developing Resistance to Treatments,” UGA Today, September 21, 2021, https://news.uga.edu/hookworms-are-developing-resistance-to-medications/.
For years, Anubis was thought to be an Egyptian jackal, which recent DNA evidence has identified as an African wolf.
Jean-François Lyotard, Postmodern Fables, trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), 8.
Mort, 91.