Summary
DOGS – Laurie Taylor explores the making of the modern companion animal, from working animals to pampered pets. Chris Pearson, Professor of Environmental History at the University of Liverpool, charts the changing fortunes of hunting dogs, street dogs and show dogs, as they moved from the rural to the urban, shedding utilitarian roles to become cherished family members. Also, Mariam Motamedi Fraser, Honorary Research Fellow at University College, London, asks if dogs belong with humans and the natural bond is less natural than we assume.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:45.8 | Hello, my father never wanted our dog. Trouble began early over its name. Mother, who wasn't exactly streetwise, wanted to name it |
| 0:57.7 | Puck. Dad was horrified. He said, can you imagine what the neighbours would think if they saw me |
| 1:02.4 | running down the street shouting that? It was finally agreed after days and days of discussion that this |
| 1:08.8 | rather scruffy new member of our household should be called Lucky. |
| 1:14.9 | That, however, proved to be thoroughly incongruous. |
| 1:18.5 | Because Father treated him as a delinquent child who needed to be harshly socialised. |
| 1:25.1 | He would become particularly irate if Lucky chose to move around, to merely exercise its limbs. |
| 1:31.9 | Get in your box! became a familiar injunction in our back kitchen. No dogs were ever allowed in the front room, |
| 1:39.7 | so much so that the demand became a commonplace way for us children to attack each other. |
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