Pets in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pets in America write by Katherine C. Grier. This book was released on 2010-11-15. Pets in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Entertaining and informative, Pets in America is a portrait of Americans' relationships with the cats, dogs, birds, fishes, rodents, and other animals we call our own. More than 60 percent of U.S. households have pets, and America grows more pet-friendly every day. But as Katherine C. Grier demonstrates, the ways we talk about and treat our pets--as companions, as children, and as objects of beauty, status, or pleasure--have their origins long ago. Grier begins with a natural history of animals as pets, then discusses the changing role of pets in family life, new standards of animal welfare, the problems presented by borderline cases such as livestock pets, and the marketing of both animals and pet products. She focuses particularly on the period between 1840 and 1940, when the emotional, behavioral, and commercial characteristics of contemporary pet keeping were established. The story is filled with the warmth and humor of anecdotes from period diaries, letters, catalogs, and newspapers. Filled with illustrations reflecting the whimsy, the devotion, and the commerce that have shaped centuries of American pet keeping, Pets in America ultimately shows how the history of pets has evolved alongside changing ideas about human nature, child development, and community life. This book accompanies a museum exhibit, "Pets in America," which opens at the McKissick Museum in Columbia, South Carolina, in December 2005 and will travel to five other cities from May 2006 through May 2008.
Redemption
Redemption - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Redemption write by Nathan J. Winograd. This book was released on 2007. Redemption available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explains the "No Kill" movement, tracing the history of animal sheltering and describing what can be done for homeless dogs and cats by shelters without the need to kill them.
Pet Nation
Pet Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pet Nation write by Mark Cushing. This book was released on 2021-09-21. Pet Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now in paperback and with an update about pets during COVID. In the last 20 years pets have gone from the backyard to sleeping on our beds, then showing up in every corner of America. Pet Nation tells the story of this seismic shift and the economic, media, legal, political, and social dramas springing from this cultural transformation. Since 1998 the pet population in the U.S. has almost doubled -- about two-thirds of the country now owns a pet. No longer left to wander the neighborhood, dogs and cats eat special food, get individualized medical attention, and even fly in the cabin. As founder of the Animal Policy Group, Mark Cushing provides an inside look at the rise of Pet Nation, tracking the myriad ways pets are acquired (a "Canine Freedom Train" runs south to north), reporting on pet rights legislation (and the unseen problems that come with elevating their status), pet healthcare (revealing the truth and myths about large scale breeders), and discovering that despite what many organizations would have us believe, there is a shortage of dogs. Insightful, surprising, and full of great stories, Pet Nation opens our eyes to the big changes happening in front of us right now. It shows us not only what our love of animals says about pets, it shows us what it says about ourselves.
U.S. Pet Ownership & Demographics Sourcebook
U.S. Pet Ownership & Demographics Sourcebook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook U.S. Pet Ownership & Demographics Sourcebook write by American Veterinary Medical Association. This book was released on 2007. U.S. Pet Ownership & Demographics Sourcebook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides data and analyses of pet ownership statistics in the United States.
Pet Shop Boys versus America
Pet Shop Boys versus America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pet Shop Boys versus America write by Chris Heath. This book was released on 2020-03-19. Pet Shop Boys versus America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No other pop group in recent history has faced fame with such intelligence, humour and shrewdness as the Pet Shop Boys. In 1991, the band toured North America for the first time shadowed by journalist Chris Heath and legendary rock photographer Pennie Smith. They visited fourteen cities in one month, confronting the American music industry and colliding with the likes of Liza Minnelli, Steven Spielberg and Axl Rose. This is more than a documentary of a tour; it is an unusually intimate portrait of two maverick British musicians always reluctant to compromise. ‘There was a time when the Pet Shop Boys seemed to exist entirely on radio, television and in magazines. This is the other world of the Pet Shop Boys in concert, travel and backstage, as they bring their art and glamour to America. It’s funny too.’ Johnny Marr ‘A brilliant book, to be read over and over again. How could anyone not love these men?’ NME
