Separated at birth?
Patty Hearst's hairball and ... a sixties cocktail waitress? (Top) Diane Arbus: Lady bartender with a souvenir dog (Bottom) Shih Tzu, Toy...
Form & function?
This is more than Westminster dogs do.
Show rings and social climbers
Engraving on wood by W. M. Thackeray "Peach-coloured liveries laced with silver, and pea-green plush inexpressibles, render the De...
Dog snobs, wine snobs
Dog snobbery has little to do with practical uses of our longtime companions and lots to do with memorizing the proper terminology, like...
Fetch!
A Lab is thought to have a character as solid as its coat color, with a level of blind loyalty that more spirited dogs would find...
Kennel clubbiness
The Leash, one of several ultra-elite clubs that still exist in Midtown Manhattan, and so private it doesn’t have a website, was founded...
Turning dogs into cats?
A closer look reveals a long list of breeds, some that even professional fanciers don’t suspect, clearly lionized in one way or another....
Lap dogs
Dog in Armchair by Alfred De Dreux, 1857 As with other luxury breeds linked to desirable spots, saying a dog felt no need to roam implied...
The book of dog snobs
(Cruikshank) “And a comfortable thing it is to think that birth can be bought for money. So you learn to value it." —Thackeray, The Book...
