Mass Gild September 2018

"The controversial even of 1 infamous breed of dog."

By Zazie Todd, PhD

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The Book Club alternative for September 2018 is Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon past times Bronwen Dickey.

From the dorsum cover,

"When Bronwen Dickey brought her novel domestic dog home, she saw no traces of the infamous viciousness inwards her affectionate pit bull. Which made her wonder: How had the breed—beloved past times Teddy Roosevelt together with Helen Keller—come to live on known equally a fell fighter? Dickey’s search for answers takes her from nineteenth-century New York dogfighting pits to early on twentieth‑century painting demonstrate sets, from the battlefields of Gettysburg to struggling urban neighborhoods. In this illuminating even of how a pop breed became demonized--and what business office humans conduct keep played inwards the transformation--Dickey offers us an insightful persuasion of Americans' human relationship amongst their dogs"

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Zazie Todd, PhD, is the writer of Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy. She is the founder of the pop weblog , where she writes close everything from grooming methods to the human-canine relationship. She also writes a column for Psychology Today together with has received the prestigious Captain Haggerty Award for Best Training Article inwards 2017. Todd lives inwards Maple Ridge, BC, amongst her husband, 1 dog, together with 2 cats.

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