Cited by T. Quick, 'Puppy Love: Domestic Science, “Women's Work,” and Canine Care,' Journal of British Studies 58 (2) (2019), pp. 289-314.
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'Somewhat surprisingly given the very long history of canine domestication, recent work by Howell, Katherine Grier, Sarah Amato, Ingrid Tague, and others suggests that the positioning of dogs as participants in family life is a relatively recent phenomenon. [note: 'Howell, At Home and Astray; Sarah Amato, Beastly Possessions: Animals in Victorian Consumer Culture (Toronto, 2015), chap. 2; Ingrid H. Tague, Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Philadelphia, 2015), chap. 3; Laura Brown, Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination (Ithaca, 2010), chap. 3; Katherine C. Grier, Pets in America: A History (Chapel Hill, 2006); Kathleen Kete, The Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Berkeley, 1994); Hilda Kean, The Great Cat and Dog Massacre: The Real Story of World War II’s Unknown Tragedy (Chicago, 2017).'].' (289)

'the incorporation of dogs into the scientific home depended on commercial enterpriseas well as experimental insight. Puppies and puppy feeding became significant objects of economic concern for manufacturers of pet medicine and food. Artificial milk foods developed and marketed with the aim of ensuring ideal nutritional conditions for human infants were one of the most iconic commercial corollaries of the domestic-science movement... Perhaps unsurprisingly given nineteenth-century associations between pets and children, British manufacturers sought to capitalize on the success of these products, developing a range of artificial milk foods for dogs. [note: On pets and children, see Amato, Beastly Possessions, 63–67; Susan J. Pearson, The Rights of the Defenceless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America (Chicago, 2011), esp. chap. 1. On relations between milk, cows, and domestic science, see Carla Hustak, “Got Milk? Dirty Cows, Unfit Mothers,and Infant Mortality, 1880–1940,” in Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada, ed. Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, and Christabelle Setha (Calgary, 2017), 189–218. See also Dwork, War Is Good for Babies, chaps. 3 and 4; Peter Atkins, Liquid Materialities: A History of Milk,Science and the Law (Farnham, 2010).']' (292)

'The portrayal of dog feeding as an activity of the same order as the feeding of children recalls the Victorian patriarchal domestic ideal, in which commonalities between pets and children were often emphasized.' [note: 'Amato, Beastly Possessions, 63–67.']' (298)

'The latter years of the century saw women begin to adopt larger, more traditionally “masculine” breeds. As Sarah Amato has shown, organizations such as the Ladies’ Kennel Association created opportunities for women to redefine their roles within the dog fancy. [note: 'Amato, Beastly Possessions, 73–86, 92–102.']' (299)

'Much of women’s interest in dogs during the early twentieth century was expressed in terms of the increasingly prominent middle-class culture of feminine consumption and display... Fashion-conscious dog owners were routinely depicted in magazines and the daily press as buyers of dogs as luxury items in the same way as they might consume any other leisure-oriented good. [note: 'Sarah Cheang, “Women, Pets and Imperialism: The British Pekingese Dog and Nostalgia for Old China,” Journal of British Studies 45, no. 2 (April 2006): 359–86, at 373–36; Amato, Beastly Possessions, 43–44; Kete, Beast in the Boudoir, 84–89.']' (299)