would let “the dog poop on purpose”: Justin Jouvenal, “Fairfax Neighbors Head to Court over Unscooped Dog Poop,” Washington Post, Oct. 24, 2011.
“not once during these three days”: Ibid.
“Will it offend you if I use the word ‘poop’?”: Julie Carey, “Fairfax County Woman Cleared in Dog Poop Trial,” NBCWashington.com, Oct. 25, 2011.
“Do dogs really use the bathroom?”: Ibid.
in 2008 the sisters had filed an unsuccessful complaint: Jouvenal, “Fairfax Neighbors Head to Court over Unscooped Dog Poop.”
“fecal matter”: R. Bowers et al., “Sources of Bacteria in Outdoor Air Across Cities in the Midwestern United States,” Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77, no. 18 (Sept. 2011): 6350–58.
“I don’t always pick up”: Zeaman, Dog Walks Man, pp. 32–33.
the highest prize at the San Francisco Chronicle: Mary Ann Dancisin, “Virginia Wineries: Best in Class, and Double Gold, in SF Competition,” Virginia Wine Guide Online.
There’s a great YouTube video: “Friendly Dog Meeting Curious Cows Makes Internet Hit,” London Telegraph, Jan. 22, 2012.
A blind man, Bill Irwin: Bill Irwin, Blind Courage (Waco: WRS Publishing, 1996).
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According to a survey of American dog owners: “Thundershirt Study Reveals Prevalence of Anxiety Among Dogs,” Thundershirt.com.
“the ninja warriors of dogdom”: Richard Woodward, “Great Plott!,” Slate, Feb. 12, 2008.
“no other animal has been portrayed so ubiquitously as the Bad Guy”: Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods, The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter than You Think (New York: Dutton, 2013), p. 17.
while one recent study suggests a much earlier start date: K. Wayne et al. “Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Ancient Canids Suggest a European Origin of Domestic Dogs,” Science 342, no. 6160 (2013): 871–74.
a fitting touch considering Greene died of sunstroke: “Then and Now: A Last Walk in the Sun,” Warwickonline.com, Nov. 19, 2010.
“What do you mean Patrick is dead?”: John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story (New York: Vintage, 1999).
but that a “chimney effect”: “Where in the World Is Stuckie?,” walb.com, Feb. 21, 2003.
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“With her makeup off”: Joe Friedman, “Why I Hate Florida,” JoeFriedman.hubpages.com.
Americans spent $53 billion on pet products: American Pet Products Association.
The pet industry has proven: Carol Tice, “Why One Recession-Proof Industry Just Keeps Growing,” Forbes, Oct. 30, 2012.
including a New York Times piece: Andrew Martin, “For the Dogs Has a Whole New Meaning,” New York Times, June 4, 2011.
“the desire to treat pets as humans”: Michael Shaffer, One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food (New York: Henry Holt, 2009), pp. 23–24.
“Nearly any trend in human consumerism”: Ibid.
“The U.S. pet set gets not only”: “The Great American Animal Farm,” Time, Dec. 23, 1974.
“attributing human qualities”: Alexander Hammer, “Affluence Is Fueling Pet Industry Growth,” New York Times, Sept. 21, 1969.
A 2008 University of Chicago study: N. Epley et al., “When We Need a Human: Motivational Determinants of Anthropomorphism,” Social Cognition 26, no. 2 (2008): 143–55.
Studies also tell us: M. McPherson et al., “Social Isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion Networks over Two Decades,” American Sociological Review 71, no. 3 (June 2006): 353–75.
“the dog has been granted temporary personhood”: James Serpell, The Domestic Dog (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 254.
“Our expectations are really going up”: James Vlahos, “Pill-Popping Pets,” New York Times Magazine, July 13, 2008.
4.5 million people in this country are bitten: J. Sacks et al., “Dog Bites: How Big a Problem?,” Injury Prevention 2 (1996): 52–54.
“if you want to cause a commotion”: Coren, The Modern Dog, p. 116.
flat-out equate dogs to people: Gregory Berns, “Dogs Are People, Too,” New York Times, Oct. 5, 2013.
Erica devised an experiment: E. Feuerbacher and C. Wynne, “Relative Efficacy of Human Social Interaction and Food as Reinforcers for Domestic Dogs and Hand-Reared Wolves,” Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 98, no. 1 (July 2012): 105–29.
the author of a study about dogs and scent: N. Hall et al., “Training Domestic Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) on a Novel Discrete Trials Odor-Detection Task,” Learning and Motivation 44, no. 4 (Nov. 2013): 218–28.
a German Shepherd has some 225 million: Stanley Coren, “Do Some Dog Breeds Have Better Noses and Scent Discrimination than Others?,” Psychology Today, Jan. 15, 2011.
“people may behave like animals”: “Dogs, wolves, and the meaning of ‘dogness,’ ” published on the University of Florida website, June 15, 2010.
“Do Dogs (Canis familiaris) Seek Help in an Emergency?”: K. Macpherson and W. Roberts, “Do Dogs (Canis familiaris) Seek Help in an Emergency?,” Journal of Comparative Psychology 120, no. 2 (May 2006): 113–19.
“it ran over and jumped in the person’s lap”: Alex Boese, Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments (New York: Harvest, 2007).
“arguably the most successful mammal”: Hare and Woods, The Genius of Dogs.
“that a ball cannot pass through a solid object”: Ibid., p. 155.
The Genius of Dogs includes a handy chart: Ibid., p. 235.
“where no matter what they could see”: Ibid., p. 151.
have your dog microchipped instead: Ibid., p. 154.
“will inspect different hiding locations”: Ibid., p. 161.
Studies designed specifically: Ibid., p. 161.
“it’s become a cliché that we love dogs”: McConnell, The Other End of the Leash, p. 7.
“that our pets are programmed”: Hal Herzog, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat (New York: Harper, 2010), p. 79.
were believed to be “indefatigable mourners”: Susan Orlean, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), p. 116.
“A dog’s life is a short one”: Ibid.
they “inflict the suffering of loss upon us”: Grenier, The Difficulty of Being a Dog, p. 9.
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“the perfect teacher”: Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart (Boston: Shambhala, 2005), p. 14.
“one of those alarming West Texas sunsets”: Michael Hall, “The Buzz About Marfa Is Just Crazy,” Texas Monthly, Sept. 2004.
“Simply entering virtually assures an animal’s doom”: Jean Martin, “Death by Pound,” San Antonio Express News, Nov. 21, 2004.
“don’t like restrictions on their dogs”: Herzog, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, p. 126.
“health, behavior, and nutrition”: Schaffer, One Nation Under Dog, p. 224.
“people giving up their pets”: Ibid.
“animals, which do nothing useless”: Grenier, The Difficulty of Being a Dog, p. 3.
“Bed Bugs: Old Problem Resurfaces in RV Parks”: Leanne Phillips, “Bedbugs: Old Problem Resurfaces in RV Parks,” rvbusiness.com, Feb. 28, 2011.
“shouldn’t disregard the possibility”: Jeremy Ecker, “Can Dogs Carry Bed Bugs,” TheBedBugInspectors.com, Sept. 11, 2012.
“The sky was as full of motion and change”: Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop (New York: Vintage, 1990), p. 231.
“many working-class blacks are easily intimidated by strange dogs”: Elijah Anderson, Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
“African Americans in particular may endorse”: K. Chapman et al., “Fear Factors: Cross Validation of Specific Phobia Domains in a Community-Based Sample of African American Adults,” Journal of Anxiety Disorders 25 (2011): 539–44.
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to the hundreds of thousand
s: Jeri Clausin, “Navajo Nation’s Dogs Roam Unchecked,” Huffington Post, Aug. 16, 2011.
there isn’t a single veterinarian: Julie Hauserman, “Lakota Community Offers Help for Reservation Dogs,” Humane Society of the United States, Jan. 5, 2011.
The Choctaw nation: John Upton Terrell, American Indian Almanac (Cleveland: World, 1971).
The Iroquois tribes used to: Harold Blau, “The Iroquois White Dog Sacrifice: Its Evolution and Symbolism,” Ethnohistory 11, no. 2 (Spring 1964).
According to a belief common among Plains Indians: Harold E. Driver, Indians of North America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969), p. 34.
Unlike tribes who partook of dog meat: Terrell, American Indian Almanac, p. 289.
Several Plains tribes, including the Shoshone: Robert H. Lowie, Indians of the Plains (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1954), p. 39.
“might answer back, thus upsetting”: Serpell, The Domestic Dog, pp. 247–48.
“pneumonia, kennel cough, giardia”: Andrew J. Manuse, “Rash of Sick Pups Sparks Kennel Investigation,” Boston Herald, July 22, 2006.
University of Pennsylvania study: D. Duffy et al., “Breed Differences in Canine Aggression,” Applied Animal Behaviour Science 114 nos. 3–4 (2008): 441–60.
But after a series of well-publicized maulings in 1987: Peter Applebome, “Series of Pit Bull Attacks Stirs a Clamor for Laws,” New York Times, July 12, 1987.
studies have linked Pit Bull ownership: J. Barnes et al., “Ownership of High-Risk (‘Vicious’) Dogs as a Marker for Deviant Behaviors,” Journal of Interpersonal Violence 21, no. 12 (Dec. 2006): 1616–34.
“Dobermans, Rottweilers, and German Shepherds”: James Hettinger, “Can’t Judge a Bull by the Cover,” Animal Sheltering, March/April 2013.
In 1738, a Blue Paul Terrier: Mike Homan, The Staffordshire Bull Terrier in History and Sport (Devon, UK: Beech Publishing House, 1988).
“Public Health Implications of Brucella canis Infections”: Prepared by Jim Kazmierczak, National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians.
“who had been profiled”: Beth Duckett, “Whisperer Helps with Pets,” Arizona Republic, Nov. 30, 2009.
“We took refuge in our bedroom”: Penelope Smith, Animal Talk (New York: Atria, 2008), p. 20.
through the earth’s magnetic fields: Dennis Moore, “ ‘Pet Psychic’ Unmasks Traumas, True feelings,” USA Today, June 3, 2002.
“I’m a good dog”: Joan Ranquet, Communication with All Life: Revelations of an Animal Communicator (Carlsbad, NM: Hay House, 2007), p. 47.
“dogs can talk about”: Peter Applebome, “Talking to Animals in Their Frequency, and Sniffing,” New York Times, Jan. 18, 2006.
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In a 2011 article for The Fix: Nic Sheff, “A Dog’s Life,” The Fix, Oct. 15, 2011.
“Walking in front of your dog”: Cesar Millan, “6 Tips for Mastering the Dog Walk,” Cesar’s Way, July 2, 2013.
In a 2006 op-ed: Mark Derr, “Pack of Lies,” New York Times, Aug. 31, 2006.
“hold [the dog] suspended until”: William Koehler, The Koehler Method of Dog Training (New York: Howell Book House, 1996).
“He’ll come with you”: Ibid.
“There is nothing that says”: “Effective Dog Training—Ian Dunbar,” FORA.tv, Jan. 12, 2009.
“We are not like plumbers”: Jean Donaldson, “Talk Softly and Carry a Carrot or a Big Stick?” The Woofer Times, Sept. 2006.
“It’s the urge to dominate”: Schaffer, One Nation Under Dog, p. 198.
Then there’s the Tennessee man: Russell Goldman, “Elton, the ‘Gay’ Dog, Spared the Gas Chamber,” ABC News, Jan. 13, 2013.
“hair-raising drop-offs”: “Road Trip: California’s Pacific Coast Highway,” Travel.NationalGeographic.com.
sometimes, they actually do: Heather Millar, “The Ups and Downs of Highway 1,” Smithsonian, June 1999.
“Some dogs, I’m told, like to stick around”: Armistead Maupin, “Kiss Patrol,” in Michael J. Rosen, ed., Dog People: Writers and Artists on Canine Companionship (New York: Artisan, 1995), p. 130.
“Usually they’ll hold off”: William Yardley, “Oregon Wants ‘Dog Friendly’ to Be Less So,” New York Times, Sept. 2, 2009.
the “craziest, most badly behaved sons of bitches”: Tara Palmeri, “Liars Use Phony Vests and ID Tags to Get Fake Service Dogs into Posh New York Restaurants,” New York Post, Aug. 12, 2013.
“These are some of the most loyal”: John Weatherford, “Bitchin’ News: Experts Say Dogs Owned by Homeless People Don’t Have It So Bad,” Willamette Week (OR), May 24, 2006.
In one study, more than 90 percent: R. Singer et al., “Dilemmas Associated with Rehousing Homeless People Who Have Companion Animals,” Psychological Reports 77 (1995): 851–57.
“Anyone who has had to sleep”: Lars Eighner, Travels with Lizbeth (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1993), p. xiii.
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“the frantic bustle of America”: Steinbeck, Travels with Charley (New York: Penguin, 2012), p. 115.
“This is a dog of peace and tranquility”: Ibid.
“Don’t go in there!”: Lee H. Whittlesey, Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park (Maryland: Roberts Rinehart, 1995), p. 3.
“Abuse directed against animals”: Frank Ascione and Phil Arkow, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Animal Abuse (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1999) p. xvi.
Though men are more likely than women: Joni Johnston, “Female Animal Abusers,” Psychology Today, July 2, 2012.
In an examination of thousands: Kathleen Gerbasi, “Gender and Nonhuman Animal Cruelty Convictions: Data from Pet-Abuse.com,” Society and Animals, Oct. 2012.
A 2002 task force organized by the Department of Education: The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States, May 2012.
“The awkward fact is that most wanton animal cruelty”: Herzog, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, p. 34.
Several studies of college students: A. Arluke et al., “The Relationship of Animal Abuse to Violence and Other Forms of Antisocial Behavior,” Journal of Interpersonal Violence 14, no. 9 (1999): 963–75.
“I believe simply from enjoying the power”: Colin Blakemore, “Darwin Understood the Need for Animal Tests,” The Times (London), Feb. 12, 2009.
Dogs at the time could not: Herzog, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, p. 58.
“I will commit to concentration camps”: Ibid.
There was the Montana man: Sanjay Talwani, “Man Charged with Getting Dog Drunk,” (Helena, MT) Independent Record, March 12, 2012.
the North Carolina man who dragged: “Dog Dragged Behind Moped for Several Miles,” Pet-Abuse.com, April 28, 2012.
the New Jersey woman who attempted: Deborah Marko, “Officials Investigate Surgery on Dog at Home,” (Vineland, NJ) Daily Journal, April 12, 2012.
the two California men who lit fireworks: “Small Dog Rigged with M-80 Firework,” Pet-Abuse.com, May 23, 2012.
the St. Louis man who photographed himself: Robert Patrick, “Call to St. Louis Home Results in Charges of Child Porn, Sex with Dog,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 3, 2012.
Kinsey found that 8 percent of men: Marjorie Garber, Dog Love (New York: Touchstone, 1997), p. 150.
Dogs were almost removed: “Our Police Dogs Four in Number,” New York Times, Sept. 22, 1929.
was “viewed skeptically until she detected explosives”: Marc Santora and William Rashbaum, “F.B.I. Dog Is Killed in Raid on Hideaway,” New York Times, March 14, 2013.
This city of 27,000 has the highest: Tim Jones, “East St. Louis Cops Outgunned as Cuts Let Killers Thrive,” Bloomberg, Jan. 4, 2013.
“genetic castaways on the third rail”: Melinda Roth, The Man Who Talks to Dogs: The Story of Randy Grim and His Fight to Save America’s Abandoned Dogs (New York: Thomas Dunne, 2002), p. 10.
“I’ve hosted parties I did not attend”: Ran
dy Grim with Melinda Roth, Don’t Dump the Dog: Outrageous Stories and Simple Solutions to Your Worst Dog Behavior Problems (New York: W. W. Norton, 2009).
“only the brave dare walk its streets”: “The East St. Louis Blues,” Time, April 11, 1969.
The deaths had been widely reported: “Reward Doubled for Dog Torture Suspects,” Fox2now.com, May 15, 2012.
“I sing the mangy dog, the pitiful, the homeless dog”: Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen (New York: New Directions, 1970), p. 105.
“of a misfiring of our parental instincts”: Herzog, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, p. 92.
“From the meme’s-eye view”: Ibid., p. 93.
“the Japanese began to emulate aspects”: Ibid., p. 94.
Index
abandonment, 90–91, 247, 275, 302
accountability, 228, 230
Ackerley, J. R., 242
Adams, John, 87
addiction, 226–32, 254, 258
adoption, 27, 30, 85, 155–58, 168, 176, 178, 183, 301
Black Dog Syndrome and, 99–100
of small vs. big dogs, 175
of Vicktory Dogs, 210
advertising, 127, 141, 210, 249
African-Americans, 56, 133–34, 189–90
aggression:
in dogs, 39, 124, 210, 222, 228, 235, 236, 238, 239, 295, 299
in humans, 40, 103
aging, 48, 63, 116, 129, 196, 220, 223
of Casey, 11, 22
Agriculture Department, Oregon, 248
Alf (Cary’s dog), 159
Alibi (Newfoundland/Chow mix), 96
Ally (Poodle), 73
alternative dog treatments, 250–52
Amelia (Neil and Brant’s dog; formerly Dixie), 155–57
American Cocker Spaniels, 145–46
American Foxhounds, 87
American Kennel Club (AKC), 7, 75, 77, 78, 87
Amiryani, Maryam, 179–81
Amos (Gold’s lab), 7, 191
Anasazi culture, 200
Anderson, Elijah, 189–90
Andy (Pembroke Welsh Corgi), 45–50, 304
Angel Canyon, 211
Angels Rest, 211
anger, 230, 245, 272, 297
Animal Care Services, 173–79
animal communicators (pet psychics), 9, 30, 217–25
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