Creature comforts : New Zealanders and their pets : an illustrated history / Nancy Swarbrick.

By:

Swarbrick, Nancy [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1877578614
9781877578618

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DDC classification:

636.08870993 23

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Contents:

Making introductions -- Happy homes -- A man's best friends? -- The fancy -- Learning to be kind -- Feels like a Calf Club Day -- From helpers to heroes -- Pets or pests? -- Local legends -- One of the family.

Summary: New Zealand has one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world: more than half of all Kiwi households have a cat and nearly a third have a dog, while many have other pets. Yet until now no book has explored how pet keeping came to be such an integral part of the New Zealand way of life. Creature comforts does just this. By chronicling the major events and ideas that have shaped pet ownership in New Zealand, this fascinating and entertaining book explains the strong relationship we have with our animal companions, and how this has changed over time. It looks at the social impact of fanciers organisations, the moral influence of the SPCA and other animal welfare groups, the educational role of calf clubs, and the debates stirred up by animal rights movements. Beautifully illustrated, with many previously unpublished historical images.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	636.08870993 SWA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A529339B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

New Zealand has one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world: more than half of all Kiwi households have a cat and nearly a third have a dog, while many have other pets. Yet until now no book has explored how pet keeping came to be such an integral part of the New Zealand way of life. Creature comforts does just this. By chronicling the major events and ideas that have shaped pet ownership in New Zealand, this fascinating and entertaining book explains the strong relationship we have with our animal companions, and how this has changed over time. It looks at the social impact of fanciers organisations, the moral influence of the SPCA and other animal welfare groups, the educational role of calf clubs, and the debates stirred up by animal rights movements. Beautifully illustrated, with many previously unpublished historical images.

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