{"id":499,"date":"2017-11-04T17:08:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T16:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/?p=499"},"modified":"2019-04-06T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T15:18:11","slug":"ingrid-tague-came-love-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/2017\/11\/04\/ingrid-tague-came-love-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingrid Tague: how we came to love pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/351055015&amp;color=%23ff9900&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tague-animal-companions.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tague-animal-companions.png 285w, https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tague-animal-companions-197x300.png 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/>The eighteenth century was when pet-keeping went mainstream. The first recognizable pet shops were set up, the first missing dog ads appeared in the newspapers. Over the course of the century, pet-keeping went from being seen as a sign of extravagance, sometimes even sinfulness, to being accepted, even celebrated as wholesome and desirable. But the transition, as you\u2019ll hear in this interview, wasn\u2019t always easy and it raised a host of anxieties about race, gender, slavery, sexuality, liberty and our place in nature.<\/p>\n<p>My guest this week is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.du.edu\/ahss\/history\/facultystaff\/tague.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ingrid Tague<\/a>, who is professor of history at the University of Denver. Her most recent book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psupress.org\/books\/titles\/978-0-271-06588-5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain<\/em><\/a>, is out this month in paperback from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psupress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Penn State University Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eighteenth century was when pet-keeping went mainstream. The first recognizable pet shops were set up, the first missing dog ads appeared in the newspapers. 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