'During the 1920s and 1930s, at a time of union agitation across the service trade, a lively correspondence on the appropriate behavior and treatment of kennelmaids appeared in Our Dogs. Like the house mistresses who engaged in the so-called “servant problem” debate, kennel owners proclaimed their own responsible behavior even as they decried that of others. [note: 'Laura Schwartz, “‘What We Think Is Needed Is a Union of Domestics Such as the Miners Have’: The Domestic Workers’ Union of Great Britain and Ireland, 1908–14,” Twentieth-Century British History 25,no. 2 (June 2014): 173–98.']' (306)