Kennelmen were tasked with general care and management of dogs in an estate or hunt kennel, including grooming, feeding, and day-to-day handling. By the early twentieth century, however, evidence began to appear that kennelmen, like domestic servants generally, were experiencing something of an identity crisis. A satirical 1910 article in Our Dogs distinguished between “kennelmen” and “handymen-kennelmen”: the former was a relatively respectable “worthy who looketh after the well-being of dogs, assisted by a medicine-chest.” In contrast, the latter had to balance dog keeping with “a turn at the garden,” “work[ing] the kitchen mangle,” and “taking master Fred to get his haircut.” [note: 'Gerald Sidney, “Canine Characters: The Kennelman,” Our Dogs, no. 29 (25 August 1910): 510.']' (304-305)