Do our DOGS Really Love Us?
Tony Robinson's Cunningcast
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The Evolution of Dogs in the 18th Century
i've seen loads of pictures from the renaissance onwards of people holding little dogs and having a dawing looks in their eyes. Once you have resources to take care for an animal that you don't need any other benefit from besides an emotional one that's what opens up the way of thinking about dogs. By the 19th century you get this idea that a family without a dog in some senses isn't a family right. That is a radical change from even a hundred years before then whenSure you would have a dog that worked and that was fine or if you were really rich and lazy you might have a dog just a pet but that was sort of if not sinful certainly at least
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