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Entertaining and helpful, House animals in America is a portrait of Americans' interactions with the cats, dogs, birds, fishes, rodents, and other pets we call our very own. A lot more than 60 percent of U.S. households have pets, and America expands more pet-friendly every day. But as Katherine Grier demonstrates, the ways we discuss and treat our pets - as companions, as children, and since things of beauty, status, or pleasure - have their roots long ago. Grier commences with an all natural history of pets as pets, then talks about the changing role of pets in family life, new criteria of dog welfare, the problems presented by borderline instances such as livestock pets, and the marketing of both pets and pet products. She centers particularly on the time between 1840 and 1940, when the psychological, behavioral, and commercial characteristics of contemporary family pet keeping were set up. This audiobook is peppered with the heat and humor of anecdotes from period diaries, letters, catalogs, and newspapers. House animals in America in the end shows the way the history of pets has evolved alongside changing ideas about human character, child development, and community life. This audiobook supported a museum exhibit, "Pets in America," which opened at the McKissick Museum in Columbia, South Carolina, in December 2005 and travelled to five other cities from May 2006 through May 2008.
