Episode 47: The History of Pets

Erika Fudge. Pets. 2008.

Katherine C. Greer. Pets in America: A History. 

Michael MacKinnon. ‘Pets.’ in The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life. 2014.

Anthony L. Podberscek, Elizabeth S. Paul, James A. Serpell. Companion Animals and Us: Exploring the Relationships Between People and Pets. 2000.

Amy Nelson ‘Bringing the Beast Back In: The Rehabilitation of Pet Keeping in Soviet Russia

Companion Animals’ in Everyday Life: Situating Human-Animal Engagement within Cultures. 2016. 

The Domestication of Cats: The History of the Only Domesticated Felidae Species and Their Relationship with Humans. 2020.

Gavin Ehringer. Leaving the wild: the unnatural history of dogs, cats, cows, and horses. 2017.

Donald Engels. Classical Cats: The Rise and FAll of the Sacred Cat. 2001. 

Maria Garb. Egyptian cats, Anatolian cats and Vikings: Separating evidence from fiction about the cat domestication. https://www.anadolukedisi.com/en/cat-domestication-fiction-evidence/ 

Carlos A. Driscoll, David W. Macdonald, and Stephen J. O'Brien. From wild animals to domestic pets, an evolutionary view of domestication. https://www.pnas.org/content/106/Supplement_1/9971#sec-3

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=ayn

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-origin-of-dogs/484976/

https://www.anadolukedisi.com/en/cat-domestication-fiction-evidence/

Carolin Johansson. The Origin of the Egyptian Domestic Cat. Uppsala Univerity. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:560231/FULLTEXT01.pdf 

Heidi G. Parker, Dayna L. Dreger, Maud Rimbault, Brian W. Davis, Alexandra B. Mullen, Gretchen Carpintero-Ramirez, Elaine A. Ostrander. Genomic Analyses Reveal the Influence of Geographic Origin, Migration, and Hybridization on Modern Dog Breed Development. https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/pdfExtended/S2211-1247(17)30456-4 

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