275 Pets in Early America

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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What kinds of animals did early Americans keep as pets? How did early Americans acquire pets? What kinds of animals did early Americans keep as pets? Ingrid Tague, a Professor of History at the University of Denver and the author of Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain, joins us to answer your questions about pets and pet keeping in Early America. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/275 Sponsor Links Omohundro Institute The Ben Franklin's World Shop Virtual Public Event: Equality: A Historical Perspective Complementary Episodes Episode 067: John Ryan Fischer, An Environmental History of Early California & Hawaii Episode 077: Rinker Buck, The Oregon Trail Episode 168: Andrea Smalley, Wild By Nature: Colonists and Animals in North America Episode 234: Richard Bushman, Farms & Farm Families in Early America Listen! Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook Group Ben Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcast Ben Franklin's World Facebook Page Sign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter *Books purchased through the links on this post will help support the production of Ben Franklin's World. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's world is a production of the O'Mahandro Institute.
0:12.0	Hello and welcome to episode 275 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:17.0	The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and
0:21.8	events of our early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.
0:26.0	And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.
0:29.0	Yes, yes, hold on a second. I'm getting to that.
0:33.0	And that was Sprocket, my co-host for this episode.
0:37.0	Okay, see Sprock, I did it. I introduced you.
0:40.0	Oh! Now Sprocket joins me today, mostly behind the scenes, because today's episode is about
0:45.7	pets and the practice of pet keeping in early America. It's an episode that was inspired by
0:50.5	you. You've been asking to know more about Pets in
0:53.3	America, so my digital audio team teammates and I used your request as an
0:58.1	opportunity to create a new type of episode. It's a format we're calling
1:02.4	Ask a Historian. type of episode. It's a format we're calling
1:02.8	Ask a Historian.
1:04.8	So we asked you for your questions about Pet Central America
1:08.0	and then we used your questions as the foundation
1:10.4	or scaffolding if you will around which we built this entire episode.
1:14.0	And after that, we then went out and found a historian who could answer your questions.
1:18.6	Ingrid Tague, a professor of history at the University of Denver,
1:22.3	and author of the book Animal Companions,
1:25.2	pets and social change in 18th century Britain.
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