Dogs are our loyal friends of humans, which has become the consensus of the vast majority of people, and of course, it is also a proposition that dog lovers have been emphasizing. As a result, dogs have also been able to enter many homes and establish intimate relationships with many people.
But in the process of good interaction with our dogs, I believe that no one has ever thought that in fact, dogs have also shaped the civilization of our city, and it also plays an important role in the process of urban development.
But dogs have also been a problem that we humans must face, and we must find a way to solve the troubles, but dogs are very close to our human emotions, and the relationship is constantly severed, so the solution process of these troubles presents a different color.
Chris Pearson, Ph.D. in History, is a Senior Lecturer in 20th Century History, Department of History, University of Liverpool, UK, with a focus on animal history, environmental history, and cultural history. His book "Dogs in the City: How Dogs and Humans Work Together to Create Modern New York, London and Paris" is the overall presentation of his related research, which is the result of joint research in the fields of animal history, environmental history, and cultural history.
Of course, dogs are animals, and it has been domesticated by us humans for 10,000 years, but it is in the process of getting along with us humans, especially in modern society, with the rapid development of cities, the relationship between dogs and us humans has also changed very much.
The city itself is not a space specifically designed for dogs, but dogs still enter the city with us humans. So what kind of state does a dog behave in a city? This involves the environment, it involves culture, and this is the problem that the author of this book is trying to accomplish. The author has completed the corresponding research and sorting out the historical development of the relationship between humans and dogs in New York, London, and Paris.
The author first took us into the early days of the formation of modern cities, to understand the problems that dogs must face when entering the city and the solutions they once faced, so that we can see the details of humans and dogs working together to build modern cities in the past.
The first is the problem of stray dogs, when humans formed big cities, dogs also entered the city, but there was no corresponding management at that time, so there will be a large number of stray dogs in the city. People in the city are bound to be very disgusted with stray dogs, because they bring dirt, disease, and chaos.
In the past, various measures have emerged in different cities at different stages of development, such as shelters for stray dogs. The author has an in-depth discussion around these shelters, exploring the pros and cons of these shelters and whether they are the best place for dogs.
In the face of dogs, including us modern people, we will still be concerned about the problem of dog bites, as well as the problem of rabies caused by being bitten by them. We already have a solution in modern times, and that is a vaccine, but these solutions did not exist more than 100 years ago, so solving these problems is even more difficult.
Therefore, there is also the action of killing stray dogs or sick dogs. However, this kind of hunting is not in line with the spirit of humanism, after all, for dogs, it is also a life. Since then, humane hunting has slowly emerged, so a large number of stray dogs have been hunted, allowing the environment to be controlled.
Dogs can still be seen in our modern cities, but they are no longer stray dogs, they are often pet dogs raised by their owners, and the raising of pet dogs must have corresponding licenses, and there will be a series of other breeding measures, which allows dogs to enter the civilized society. In fact, this is also related to our further understanding and understanding of dogs.
So in this book, there are more thoughts about dogs, such as the intelligence of dogs, such as whether dogs can be trained, and so on. A lot of evidence has proven that dogs are indeed capable of completing many tasks given to them by humans, and even dogs have also taken on the task of assisting humans, including the emergence of police dogs and guide dogs.
If we want to understand the impact of dogs on our human cities in a more in-depth and comprehensive way, such a book by a historian undoubtedly meets our needs in this regard. It is a professional and rigorous book, but it is also very interesting to read, and it is a very useful book to get to know our human friend dogs, so that we can start an in-depth exploration of dogs. #狗狗##狗狗那些事儿##历史冷知识#