Our Dogs, Ourselves by Alexandra Horowitz

Author:Alexandra Horowitz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2019-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

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I. Legal writers have acknowledged that dogs have a “possessory interest in certain personal property, such as a bone” (or a certain blue-and-orange ball), but the law doesn’t consider this a property right.

II. Today, all American states mandate that dogs be leashed in public (dog parks excepted), and most owners appear to comply. Collars or harnesses form an extension of the leash. Dogs deemed “aggressive” might be required to wear a muzzle.

III. Such behavior was by no means universal: Henry VIII banned dogs from court entirely.

IV. Also notable for the early use of “he” to describe a dog, who at the time was often an “it.” “She” is nowhere to be found, though.

V. Used with wire-haired breeds, stripping pulls hairs directly out, instead of cutting them.

VI. A trepan was a saw used to cut a hole in a person’s skull to release evil spirits.

VII. Also a forerunner to flaked cereal for humans.

VIII. Middlings, or midds, can be either a shorthand for meal or flour of medium grade (i.e., the next round after the good bits are used), or a by-product of wheat milling. Now sometimes called “floor sweepings,” they are in fact of similar nutritional value as the sweepings at a wheat mill. The lowest grade of flour, called “red dog,” is not usually fed to dogs.

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