CHAPTER 1: ATMA
deeply attached to his dogs: Information is taken from Cartwright, Historical Dictionary of Schopenhauer’s Philosophy, 136.
“To anyone who needs lively entertainment”: Schopenhauer, “Ideas Concerning the Intellect Generally,” 82.
Schopenhauer got up and moved his poodle’s seat: Anecdote is from Wallace and Anderson, Life of Arthur Schopenhauer, 174.
“When I see how man”: Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism, 21.
every one of them the same name: Sometimes the name is given as Atman; The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has Atma (see Wicks), which is the version I’ve chosen to use.
“on Mount Gertrude”: Benfer, “Gertrude and Alice.”
the rhythm of the dog’s breathing: Ibid.
When Basket died in 1937: Information about Basket and Basket II compiled from Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 251–52; Souhami, Gertrude and Alice, 171; and Malcolm, Two Lives, 23, 137–38.
“His going has stunned me”: Malcolm, Two Lives, 137–38.
“You will likely call”: Pronek, How to Raise and Train a French Bulldog, 11.
not only is his name Bashan: Mann, Bashan and I, 97.
fashions in dog names go in cycles: Classical dog names compiled from Abbott, Society & Politics in Ancient Rome, 187–88; and Ovid, Metamorphoses: “Actaeon,” Book 3, 138–41, 206–33, and “Cephalus and Procris,” Book 7, 394–97, 753–93.
15 percent of British dog owners: ICM research. “Of the 1172 adult pet owners questioned, 15 per cent admitted that they preferred their pet to their cousin and six per cent said that they preferred their pet to their partner”—www.icmresearch.com/media-centre/post/a-third-prefer-pets-to-family.
Sixteen percent listed their dogs: Ibid.
the same names turn up in top-ten lists: Dog name trends are analyzed each year by VPI Pet Insurance; according to 2012 records, the ten most popular dog names based on the policyholders’ inquiries were (1) Max, (2) Bailey, (3) Buddy, (4) Molly, (5) Maggie, (6) Lucy, (7) Daisy, (8) Bella, (9) Jake, and (10) Rocky—www.petinsurance.com/healthzone/pet-articles/new-pets/How-We-Name-Our-Pets.aspx.
Other common names: Popular names for pit bulls are listed at a pit bull chat website, www.pitbull-chat.com/showthread.php/59463-What-are -the-top-10-most-used-names-for-the-American-Pit-Bull-Terrier.
San Francisco Health Department records: According to the San Francisco Health Department records, of about 375 dog bites recorded from 1994 to 1997, seven were perpetrated by a Rocky. Next were Mugsy, Max, and Zeke, each tied with six bites. Accessed 21 September 2013, http://www.nanceestar.DogNamesPage1/html.
Norman Mailer—who once got into a street brawl: Manso, Mailer, 221.
CHAPTER 2: BULL’S-EYE
“he owns a bull terrier”: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Sikes.
“a white shaggy dog”: Dickens, Oliver Twist (1866), 91.
illustrators like George Cruikshank: For Cruikshank’s illustrations, see Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838), 216, 312.
the modern, long-faced bull terrier: Alexander, Bull Terriers, 13.
“faults of temper”: Dickens, Oliver Twist (1866), 109.
“downiest of the lot”: Ibid., 138.
Sikes constantly denigrates his dog: Ibid., 110, 144.
treats his girlfriend: Ibid., 381.
“carry out new evidences”: Ibid., 383.
hurls himself at the dead man’s shoulders: Ibid., 410.
“striking his head”: Ibid., 411.
“put his great paws”: Dickens, Little Dorrit, 203.
“seized the dog with both hands”: Ibid., 479.
“deeply ashamed”: Ibid., 480.
“to the feet of his mistress”: Ibid.
“He was bad-tempered”: Camus, The Stranger, 45.
“great black and white”: Brontë, Jane Eyre, 112.
“a lion-like creature”: Ibid., 107.
“then he jumped up”: Ibid., 436.
“workmen are always ready”: Audry, Behind the Bathtub, 53.
“the manliest dog on the planet”: See www.bluebeards-revenge.co.uk/blog/english-bulldog-voted-manliest-dog-on-the-planet/.
all kinds of macho objects and activities: For bulldog-themed products, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldog_%28disambiguation%29.
Cesar Millan: Millan and Peltier, Cesar’s Way.
fighting breeds were crossbred: Villavicencio, “A History of Dogfighting.”
“villainous-looking set”: McCabe, The Secrets of the Great City, 389.
“Let dogs delight to bark and bite”: Watts, “Let Dogs Delight,” 114.
mercenary pet pilferers: Information about the Fancy compiled from Woolf, Flush, 51, 52, 62, 109; and Mayhew, The London Underworld in the Victorian Period, 196.
CHAPTER 3: CAESAR III
the short story “Coming, Aphrodite!”: “Coming, Aphrodite!” originally appeared under the title “Coming, Eden Bower!” in Smart Set 92 (August 1920), 3–25. In addition to the title change, the magazine version was shorter and omitted the story’s sexual elements. The many textual variants are listed in the appendix of Uncle Valentine and Other Stories edited by Bernice Slote, 177–81.
“ugly but sensitive face”: Cather, Coming, Aphrodite! and Other Stories, 11.
“he had been bred”: Ibid., 5.
“nobody but his dog”: Ibid., 10.
“I wish you wouldn’t”: Ibid., 12.
“it had never occurred”: Ibid., 13.
“But he’s half the fun”: Ibid., 25.
“lying on his pallet”: Ibid.
“she had often told”: Ibid., 33.
“Caesar, lying on his bed”: Ibid., 36.
everyone who’s written about this story: See, for example, Cynthia Griffin Wolff’s introduction to Cather, Coming, Aphrodite! and Other Stories, xxvi; and Petry, “Caesar and the Artist,” 307.
“never did he feel so much”: Cather, Coming, Aphrodite! and Other Stories, 10.
“a kind of Heaven”: Ibid.
“lost in watching”: Ibid., 11.
“accompanied by a maid”: Wharton, The House of Mirth, 36.
25 percent of female dog owners: See Chomel and Sun, “Zoonoses in the Bedroom,” 167–72.
“How I loved that first ‘Foxy’ of mine”: Adams, Shaggy Muses, 145.
“love and understand”: Ibid., 186.
“made me into a conscious sentient person”: Ibid., 145.
strict no-pet policy: Information about dog-friendly inner-city rail networks comes from Cohen, “Pet and Train Travel Regulations in the U.S.”; European regulations compiled from www.raileurope.co.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=1662.
CHAPTER 4: DOUCHKA
troublesome and neurotic German shepherd: Behind the Bathtub was published first in French as Derrière la baignoire (Paris: Gallimard, 1962), then in English as Behind the Bathtub: The Story of a French Dog, translated by Peter Green (Boston: Little, Brown, 1963), and, two years later, as Douchka: The Story of a Dog (London: Country Book Club, 1965).
“fighting off Douchka’s would-be admirers”: Audry, Behind the Bathtub, 170.
“I could neither cure”: Ibid., 175.
“what no man had”: Ibid., 184.
“loving her gave me”: Ibid., 43.
“hope constantly springing”: Ackerley, We Think the World of You, 60.
“she would gaze longingly”: Ibid.
“I—I can’t bear”: Ibid., 132.
“It always affected me”: Ibid., 107.
“That she was awaiting”: Ibid., 155.
“a pang goes through my heart”: Mann, Bashan and I, 64.
“dog love is local love”: Garber, Dog Love, 14.
“dogs occupy the niche”: Knapp, Pack of Two, 210.
“Dogs are obviously attached”: Bradshaw, In Defense of Dogs, 145.
“Of course it does!”: Ibid.
“I loved her”: Ackerley, We Think the World of You, 107.
The Prix Médicis is traditionally awarded: Information regarding the 1962 Prix Médicis comes from Schlocker, who writes, “The disagreements among the various judges were severe this year and twice had to be determined by the deciding vote of the chairman.” See Schlocker, “Literary Harvest in France,” 144.
“The book is easy reading”: William, review of Behind the Bathtub, 297.
“an angry, tormented book”: Lewis, “Animal Farming,” 29.
“run-of-the-mill animal stuff”: Nye, “In the Night Forest,” 14.
“presumably writes”: Wyndham, review of Douchka, 708.
“based on a childhood episode”: Grellier, “Behind a Bath,” 25. However, not all the reviews were bad; see, for example, Burger, “The Impact of Douchka”; and Jacobson, “She Would Have Preferred to Gnaw on a Plump Child.”
Past columns (all by women): Lodge, “I Love My Dog More Than I Love My Husband”; Gibson, “I Put My Dog’s Happiness First”; Griffis, “My Dog Has Outlasted All My Romantic Relationships.”
“it is held”: Kuzniar, Melancholia’s Dog, 1.
“Beneath the story of”: William, review of Behind the Bathtub, 297.
CHAPTER 5: EOS
a beloved female greyhound belonging to Prince Albert: Information compiled from Nichols, The Beloved Prince; Orpen, “Royal Favorites”; and Misztal, “Queen Victoria and Her Dogs.”
“She was my companion”: Orpen, “Royal Favorites,” 208.
“much pleased”: Bowater, “Queen Victoria’s Silver Gift.”
“a darling little fellow” and “he had such dear”: Marsden, Victoria & Albert, 270.
This grotesque gewgaw: Details of the Melbourne Centerpiece from National Gallery of Victoria collection, www.ngv.vic.gov.au/col/work/15654.
“very friendly”: Marsden, Victoria & Albert, 104.
“Favorites often get shot”: Misztal, “Queen Victoria and Her Dogs,” 389.
“dear Eos”: Ibid.
“is going on well”: Ibid.
“Eos is quite convalescent”: Ibid.
“attack”: Ibid.
“I am sure”: Orpen, “Royal Favorites,” 206.
“in despair”: The Letters of Queen Victoria, 474.
“Poor dear Albert”: Roberts, Royal Artists, 116.
“Do not allow”: Pronek, How to Raise and Train a French Bulldog, 14.
But dogs are individuals: Tillman, the skateboarding bulldog: www .youtube.com/watch?v=CQzUsTFqtW0; Bailey, the swimming bulldog: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLczOGIBjHE; Sarge, the diving bulldog: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug2RTKH1tzU; Rosie, the motorcycling bulldog: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwJ9_Q_vBus&ntz=1; Winston the rocking bulldog: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6WMV_HvWKc.
“in a hurry”: Leslie, Autobiographical Reflections, 307.
“took a severe hand”: Stewart, Albert, 212.
“He sees what my intentions are”: Mann, Bashan and I, 61.
CHAPTER 6: FLUSH
“He & I”: The Brownings’ Correspondence, 9:157.
“given up the sunshine”: Woolf, Flush, 70.
“This you’ll call sentimental”: Letter to Ethel Smyth, 2 June 1935. Collected in Letters of Virginia Woolf, 3025.
“silly”: 29 April 1933. Collected in Diaries of Virginia Woolf, 153.
“came up stairs”: Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 352.
“spoken to me”: Ibid., 361.
Incidentally, Flush has no reason to complain: Paraphrased from Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford, 68.
“I was accused”: The Brownings’ Correspondence, 7:330–31.
“After all it was excusable”: Ibid., 331.
While he may not have ridiculed: Information compiled from Grant, “Virginia Woolf and the Beginnings of Bloomsbury,” 99.
“They steal fancy dogs”: Mayhew, The London Underworld in the Victorian Period, 196.
“the poor little creature”: J. W. Carlyle to H. Welsh, 5 June 1851, CLO 26:83–84.
“for if they find I am ready”: Ibid.
“and that is so sad”: Ibid.
against doctor’s orders: The Brownings’ Correspondence, 8:45.
“we are not in the least surprised”: Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams,” 56.
“with that great dog”: Barrie, Peter Pan and Other Plays, 78.
“a look”: Ibid.
“friendly and cynical mongrel”: Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga, 85.
“trying to be a Pomeranian”: Ibid., 301.
“it is by muteness”: Galsworthy, Some Slings and Arrows, 42.
“Family men prefer poodles”: Audry, Behind the Bathtub, 47.
“The servant maintained”: Ibid., 63.
“twa couple”: Scott, Guy Mannering, 119.
“auld Pepper”: Ibid.
“O, that’s a fancy”: Ibid., 120.
“not a lady’s dog, you know”: Dickens, Dombey and Son, 179.
“a blundering, ill-favored”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 7: GIALLO
Landor was said to be the model: Linton, “Reminiscences of Walter Savage Landor,” 114.
“all the playful”: Ibid.
“Not for a million”: Forster, Walter Savage Landor, 427.
“the old man”: Field, “The Last Days of Walter Savage Landor,” 388.
“The Pomeranian”: Ouida, “Dogs and Their Affections,” 315.
In his lodgings: See Field, “The Last Days of Walter Savage Landor,” 544.
“an approving wag”: Ibid., 547.
“He is foolish”: Ibid., 692.
“Giallo!”: Landor, Letters and Other Unpublished Writings, 221.
“Poor dog!”: Ibid.
“Oh Madam”: J. W. Carlyle to E. Twisleton, 3 December 1855, CLO 30:127–129.
Proust wrote regular letters: Proust’s letter cited in Grenier, The Difficulty of Being a Dog, 109.
Clark Griswold: See “Ultimate Dog Tease” at www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw.
Text from Dog: http://textfromdog.tumblr.com.
“a sign of affection”: Harris, “Internet Goes to the Dogs with Blawgers.” See also Tannen, “Talking the Dog.”
“When someone offers what sounds”: Susan Cohen quoted in Knapp, Pack of Two, 109.
Arnold Arluke and Clinton R. Sanders: Quotations taken from Arluke and Sanders, Regarding Animals, 68–69.
CHAPTER 8: HACHIKŌ
Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor of agricultural science: Information compiled from Bondeson, Amazing Dogs; and Turner and Nascimbene, Hachikō.
simply the most recent variant: For information on the Faithful Hound motif, see Ashliman, Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts.
Like Greyfriars Bobby: See Bondeson, Greyfriars Bobby.
“Why did dogs”: du Maurier, Rebecca, 322.
“I sit outside”: Knapp, Pack of Two, 41.
“breeds with”: Herzog, Some We Love, 112.
René Descartes’s claim: See Oeuvres des Descartes, 243.
“It struck me”: Audry, Behind the Bathtub, 22.
“a person’s core sense”: Knapp, Pack of Two, 74.
“When the dog fails”: Ibid., 66.
CHAPTER 9: ISSA
“Publius’ darling puppy”: Martial, Epigrams, 109.
“admirable”: Ouida, “Dogs and Their Affections,” 314.
“gay vague”: Colman, “Gay or Straight?” 6.
“Checkers speech”: See transcript, www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/nixon-checkers/.
“Fala speech”: See transcript, www.wyzant.com/help/history/hpol/fdr/fala.
When Bush introduced Barney: Taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_%28dog%29.
“too great a human”: Audry, Behind the Bathtub, 231.
CHAPTER 10: JIP
“showed his”: Dickens, David Copperfield, 189.
“Jip must have”: Ibid., 381.
“He is, as it were”: Ibid., 283.
“little petitioner”: Eliot, Middlemarch, 43.
“likes these small pets”: Ibid., 44.
“It is painful”: Ibid., 43.
“Ladies usually are fond”: Ibid., 43–44.
“very young ladies”: “Pets, and What They Cost,” 410.
“diplomatic agents”: Ibid., 411.
“Ladies of mature age”: Ibid.
“If it had grown up”: Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 74.
“talisman”: Bonaparte, Topsy, 164.
“curious incident”: Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, 347.
“an ugly”: Ibid., 117.
“I would rather”: Ibid., 115.
Dog Betrays Woman’s Infidelity: See Ashliman, Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts.
“well-trained dog”: Châtelaine of Vergi, 50–51.
“The Wonder Dog”: La Fontaine, “The Little Dog,” 220–22.
“I tore the bracelet”: Douglass, Lady Caroline Lamb, 92.
“still warm”: Wharton, “Kerfol,” 337.
“her distress”: Ibid.
“dared not”: Ibid., 338.
Each in His Own Way: Pirandello, Each in His Own Way, 13–20.
“a small”: Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 158.
“The Bitch”: Colette, Collected Stories, 417–20.
CHAPTER 11: KASHTANKA
“a reddish mongrel”: Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog, trans. Wilks, 173.
“Once he had even”: Ibid., 176.
“If she had been”: Ibid., 178.
“the delicious dinners”: Ibid., 204.
“a quietly sentimental tale”: Chekhov, Kashtanka, trans. Meyer.
“Children will respond”: Fleming, “Review of Kashtanka.”
“particularly agonizing”: Chekhov, “Kashtanka,” trans. Garnett, 181.
“Fedyushka would tie”: Ibid.
“the more lurid”: Ibid.
“she learned very eagerly”: Ibid., 191.
“the capacity for satisfaction”: Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto, 52.
“Animals are more unrestrained”: Mann, Bashan and I, 201.
“Man himself”: Darwin, “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals,” 11.
“little bull-dog”: Maeterlinck, Our Friend the Dog, 3.
“succeeds in piercing”: Ibid., 40.
“how to preserve”: Kuzniar, Melancholia’s Dog, 2.
“If a lion”: Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 223.
“To call my present idea”: James, Essays in Radical Empiricism, 198.
“A dog cannot lie”: Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 250.
“sitting at the foot”: Maeterlinck, Our Friend the Dog, 65.
“I envied the gladness”: Ibid., 67.
“not a single one”: Woolf, Flush, 132.
“we may be”: James, A Pluralistic Universe, 309.
CHAPTER 12: LUMP
Lump was a handsome dachshund: Story of Lump and Picasso summarized from Duncan, Picasso and Lump.
“squat, clumsy, deformed”: Ouida, “Dogs and Their Affections,” 3.
“Only someone”: Stock, “A Dog’s Life.”
“I make no apologies”: Hockney, Dog Days, 5.
“he quite expects it”: Ross, The Book of Noble Dogs, 235.
“vouch’d by glorious renown”: The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold, 467.
“shining yellow coat”: Ibid., 490.
“the darling himself”: Ross, The Book of Noble Dogs, 236.
“hideously expensive”: Lustig, “James, Arnold, ‘Culture,’ and ‘Modernity,’” 164.
“a pedigree as long”: Ibid., 165.
“snoring audibly”: Ibid.
“the dog demanded”: National Portrait Gallery, www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw08605/Benjamin-Britten.
“he should sit”: The Works of George Byron, 175.
the young Henry Kissinger: Information about Kissinger and his spaniel from “Kissinger Returns.”
certain inmates are allowed: See Canine Partners for Life, http://k94life.org.
85,000 Americans are injured: See “Nonfatal Fall-Related Injuries Associated with Dogs and Cats,” www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5811a1.htm.
CHAPTER 13: MATHE
“most delicate breeds”: Shaw, The Illustrated Book of the Dog, 158.
“the greyhound”: Froissart, Chronicles, 447.
Disguised Man Recognized by Dog: See Ashliman, Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts.
this dusky hellhound: Information on spectral black dogs from Briggs, An Encyclopedia of Fairies, 301; and Trubshaw, ed., Explore Phantom Black Dogs.
the beast was called the Gytrash: See Brontë, Jane Eyre, 107.
“the Devil will come”: Kieckhefer, Magic in the Middle Ages, 161.
a dark dog appears: “Cardinal Crescenzio,” Oeuvres complètes de Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné, 269.
“The Cardinal and the Dog”: Complete Works of Robert Browning.
Mephistopheles first appears to Faust: Goethe, Faust, 61–62.
“I passed a pleasant day”: Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott, 8:335.
“when I rise”: Letters of Samuel Johnson, 2:314.
Dog with Fire in Eyes: See Ashliman, Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts.
blazing red eyes: Information about red-eyed dogs compiled from Briggs, An Encyclopedia of Fairies, 301; and Trubshaw, ed., Explore Phantom Black Dogs.
killed and eaten by his own hunting dogs: See Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 3, lines 206–35.
eaten by their pets: See Palmer, “Would Your Dog Eat Your Dead Body?”
“That bosom”: Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, 236.
CHAPTER 14: NERO
“It sleeps at the foot”: J. W. Carlyle to J. A. Carlyle, 10 December 1849, CLO 24:308–9.
“a most affectionate”: J. W. Carlyle to J. Forster, 11 December 1849, CLO 24:309–10.
“mostly bread and water”: T. Carlyle to J. W. Carlyle, 20 July 1857, CLO 32:190–92.
“sprang from the library”: J. W. Carlyle to J. Welsh, 28 March 1850, CLO 25:54–56.
“It was common knowledge”: Woolf, Flush, 139.
“My little dog continues”: J. W. Carlyle to J. Welsh, 4 March 1850, CLO 25:36–37.
“more fuss”: J. W. Carlyle to J. C. Aitkin, 10 March 1850, CLO 25:45–46.
“I like him better”: J. W. Carlyle to M. Russell, 31 December 1849, CLO 24:317–19.
“comes down gloomy”: J. W. Carlyle to J. Forster, 11 December 1849, CLO 24:309–10.
“that vermin”: J. W. Carlyle’s journal, 27 March 1856, CLO 30:195–262.
“to the unspeakable joy”: J. W. Carlyle to M. Russell, 6 January 1852, CLO 27:4–5.
“Dullish all of us”: J. W. Carlyle’s journal, 14 November 1855, CLO 30:195–262.
“washed and combed”: Ibid., 24 November 1855.
“and was indulgent”: J. W. Carlyle to W. Allingham, 23 February 1856, CLO 31:37–39.
“Only think!”: J. W. Carlyle to M. Russell, 20 April 1857, CLO 32:130–33.
“flung him”: T. Carlyle to J. W. Carlyle, 25 June 1859, CLO 35:122–23.
“My gratitude to you”: J. W. Carlyle to A. Barnes, 2 February 1860, CLO 36:55–56.
“A passing carriage”: Froude’s Life of Carlyle, 593–94.
“nobody asked”: J. W. Carlyle to T. Carlyle, 3 July 1853, CLO 28:182–83.
“by two omnibuses”: J. W. Carlyle’s journal, 24 April 1856, CLO 30:195–262.
“large pound-cake”: J. W. Carlyle to J. Welsh, 28 November 1843, CLO 17:187–91.
Willie Morris’s charming book: My Dog Skip, Morris, 20, 42, 114.
CHAPTER 15: ORTIPO
She named the little dog Ortipo: English transliterations often render the bulldog’s name as Ortino; n and p can be difficult to distinguish in Cyrillic handwriting; however, the Russian sources that directly quote archival documents refer to Ortipo. The point is discussed at some length at the following source: http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=1307.165.
“To tell the truth”: Tatiana to Alexandra, 30 September 1914. Collected in Nicholas II and Alexandra, A Lifelong Passion, 404.
Tatiana’s mother was sympathetic: Alexandra to Nicholas, 28 November 1915 and 17 March 1916, http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index .php?topic=1307.0.
“It is a very cute”: Letter of Tatiana, 12 October 1914, http://forum .alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=1343.0;wap2.
“They are very small”: Tatiana to Nicholas, 17 November 1915. Collected in Zvereva, Avgusteyshie Sestry Miloserdiya, 36.
“Ortipo had to be shown”: Alexandra to Nicholas, 17 March 1916, http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=1343.0;wap2.
“struggling to carry Ortipo”: Bokhanov et al., The Romanovs, 310.
Finally, the poor creature’s body: See King and Wilson, The Fate of the Romanovs, 276, 285, 312.
historians are unsure: This question is debated in some detail at the following forum: http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic =1307.5;wap2.
soldiers impaling babies: See “The Bayonet Baby Effect,” http://antzml .wordpress.com/2011/02/25/the-bayonet-baby-effect.
victorious display of a royal dog: See “Early History of the Breed,” www .rosebury.de/breedhistory.html.
“all I observed there was the silliness”: Ibid.
“dangerously, irksomely and horribly”: See “King Edward VI,” http://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/edward6.html.
Faithful Lapdog: See Ashliman, Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts.
“The Queen’s head fell”: “Pups of the Past,” http://marie antoinettequeenoffrance.blogspot.com/2011/08/pups-of-past-marie -antoinettes-dogs.html.
audaciously honest name Looty: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Pekingese.
Notoriously, these charming little creatures: History of the breed summarized at the website of the French Bull Dog Club of America, http://frenchbulldogclub.org/about-frenchies/understanding-frenchies/understanding-the-breeds-history.
“a real Parisian guttersnipe”: Felix Yusupov, Lost Splendor 5, www .alexanderpalace.org/lostsplendor/v.html.
“best model”: Ibid.
“unpleasant looking”: Chukovskaia, To the Memory of Childhood, 72.
He survived the shipwreck: See “Frenchies and the Titanic,” French Bull Dog Club of America, http://frenchbulldogclub.org/about/our-clubs-history/frenchies-and-the-titanic.
still nowhere near as fashionable: Rankings listed at www.akc.org/reg/dogreg_stats.cfm.
“We English”: See www.diplomate-ambassadeur.cz/en/french-bulldog.
“the French Bulldog originated as”: See www.akc.org/breeds/french_bulldog/index.cfm.
CHAPTER 16: PERITAS
Peritas, the favorite dog of Alexander: From Plutarch, Life of Alexander, 61:3.
“guardian of the herds”: Aristotle, History of Animals, 9:1.
“Never, with them”: Virgil, Georgics, 3:404ff.
“the true Molossian”: Wynn, The History of the Mastiff Breed, 34.
one of the first joke dog names: See Petronius, Satyricon, 142–45.
a deer in the amphitheater: Martial, Epigrams.
Cave Canem: Wynn, The History of the Mastiff Breed, 34.
bravery of the pugnaces britanniae: Grattius, “Cynegetica,” 179ff.
“hounds and greyhounds”: Shakespeare, Macbeth, 3.1.95–104.
adopting a rescue mutt: The trend for rescue dogs is chronicled by Jodi Lastman at the blog Hypenotic, http://hypenotic.com/rescue-dogs-a -trend-unleashed/.
the most expensive dog: See McGraw, “$1.5 Million Paid for World’s Most Expensive Dog.”
“meets the standards”: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_breed.
the visual demands of a “perfect specimen”: See the American Kennel Club glossary at www.akc.org/about/glossary.cfm and “Dog Show Lingo” at http://nefer-temu.8m.com/info/glossary.htm.
“We may sometimes”: See http://spoiledmaltese.com/forum/ 59-everything-else-maltese-related/114583-genetic-memory.html.
The Pekingese is a good case in point: See Cheang, “Women, Pets and Imperialism.”
CHAPTER 17: QUININE
Anton Chekhov was promised two puppies: Description from Rayfield, Anton Chekhov, 293.
“The dachshunds have been”: Ibid.
Masha named the male dog: Ibid.
“Brom is nimble”: Ibid.
“every evening”: Ibid.
“Gurov was on the point”: Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 234.
“In the family albums”: Nabokov, Speak, Memory, 30.
“grizzled muzzle”: Ibid., 85.
“because of his being”: Ibid., 30.
“until he was chloroformed”: Ibid.
“one of my few connections”: Updike, “Nabokov’s Look Back,” 15.
“he could be still seen”: Nabokov, Speak, Memory, 30.
“fat yellow dachshund”: Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark, 30–31.
“dropsical dackel”: Nabokov, Lolita, 206.
“turned up”: Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor, 233.
A notorious accident: Story of Newton and Diamond told in Coren, The Pawprints of History, 292–93.
“broad and hairy paws”: Mann, Bashan and I, 56.
“beautifully formed”: The Works of George Byron, 114.
“he and his master”: Ibid.
“he has already bitten”: Ibid., 159.
“My bull-dog is deceased”: Ibid., 159–60.
“How is . . . the Phoenix”: Ibid., 169.
“as many more”: Ibid., 215.
“Scott kept one window”: Chambers and Chambers, “Sir Walter Scott and His Dogs,” 274.
“It is very awful”: This and other details about Dickens’s dogs from “Dogs of Literature,” 493.
For these reclusive types: For more about Dickinson, Brontë, and their dogs, see Adams, Shaggy Muses.
CHAPTER 18: ROBBER
“this experiment”: Wagner, My Life, vol. 1, www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5197/pg5197.html.
“so touched the hearts”: Ibid.
“moved to pity”: Ibid.
“irreconcilable dislike”: Ibid.
“crosswise”: Ibid.
“must have run away”: Ibid.
“I have always considered”: Ibid.
“seemed only to revive”: Ibid.
“The fact that he”: Ibid.
“like a little dog”: This and other details of Wagner’s dreams from Köhler, Richard Wagner, 551.
“Little Dog Waltz”: See http://worldofopera.org/component/k2/item/450-waltz-in-d-flat-major-op-64-no-1.
known as the Leskovites: See http://bibliolore.org/2012/03/05/busoni-and-the-leskovites.
“was more agreeable company”: See www.wisdomportal.com/RachmaninoffNotes.html.
“docile, and always sagacious”: Shaw, Illustrated Book of the Dog, 64.
“the effete miniature dog”: Kogan, “From Russia, with Love.”
“I love Pooks”: Ibid.
“for a dog”: Volta, “Give a Dog a Bone.”
Laurie Anderson’s Music for Dogs: A performance of the work may be seen on video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=38g4VzkIf14.
Elgar’s Enigma Variations: For Edward Elgar’s notes on the Enigma Variations, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_Variations.
“Moods of Dan”: See www.elgar.org/2theman.htm.
The Metamorphosis of Dan: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George _Robertson_Sinclair.
“It is best”: Pronek, How to Raise and Train a French Bulldog, 27.
“quaint, cosy”: Mann, Bashan and I, 28.
CHAPTER 19: SHOCK
“Shock, who thought”: Pope, “The Rape of the Lock,” canto 1, line 115.
“May Kiss”: Brown, Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes, 72.
“downy breast”: Ibid., 71.
“Securely on her Lap”: Ibid., 72.
Cardinal Paleotti wrote a decree: Langdon, Medici Women, 155.
“politely concealed”: Mitchell, cited in Drabble, The Pattern in the Carpet, 230.
“Dance all night”: Pope, “The Rape of the Lock,” canto 5, line 19.
“dire Disaster”: Ibid., canto 2, line 103.
“stain her Honor”: Ibid., line 107.
“lose her Heart”: Ibid., line 109.
“that Shock must fall”: Ibid., line 110.
“Guard of Shock”: Ibid., line 116.
“When Husbands”: Ibid., canto 3, line 158.
“No more thy hand”: The Works of Mr. John Gay, 94.
“In man”: Ibid., 95.
“Now Clo’s soft skin”: Fothergill, “On the Premature Death of Cloe Snappum,” 249.
“satisfie the delicateness”: Caius, Of Englishe Dogges, 20.
“This abuse”: Ibid.
Chaucer’s flirty, foolish Prioress: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 6.
even her lapdogs turn against him: Shakespeare, King Lear, 290.
After Joséphine married Napoléon: Stuart, The Rose of Martinique, 133, 198, 210.
“sitting and calling”: Austen, Mansfield Park, 50.
“thinking more”: Ibid., 12.
“she cared for her dog”: Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 10.
a female Great Dane named Bounce: Details about Pope and Bounce compiled from Johnson, “The Life of Pope.”
Shorty Rossi and his team of little people: Pit Boss is shown on Animal Planet; see http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/pit-boss/bios/shorty-rossi.htm.
“Don’t let that dog”: Ackerley, My Dog Tulip, 5.
CHAPTER 20: TULIP
“rather wooden terrier”: Ackerley, My Dog Tulip, 92.
“I realized clearly”: Ibid.
“Are not its ghosts”: Ibid., 37.
“What’s the bleeding street”: Ibid., 33.
those regarding defecation are more recent: See Brandow, New York’s Poop Scoop Law.
Dogipots: www.dogipot.com.
DoodyDanglers: http://doodydangler.com.
Poop-Freeze: www.poopfreeze.com.
difficulty pronouncing the words: See www.allshihtzu.com/How_To_Pronounce_Shih_Tzu.html.
“you have to start”: Audry, Behind the Bathtub, 45.
“sense of disgust”: Derges et al., “Complaints About Dog Faeces,” 419.
CHAPTER 21: ULISSES
“Ulisses is mixed-race”: Cited in Moser, Why This World, 332.
“I and my dog”: Lispector, A Breath of Life, 51.
“I’m a little impolite”: Cited in Moser, Why This World, 331.
“smokes cigarettes”: Ibid., 332.
“calmly let him do”: Ibid.
“One look at him”: Cited ibid., 159.
“he looked so happy”: Ibid.
“a rather grand name”: Lispector, Selected Crônicas, 170.
“Dilermando liked”: Cited in Moser, Why This World, 159.
the Swiss didn’t allow dogs: Information about Swiss hotels given in Lispector, Selected Crônicas, 174.
“I don’t like”: Moser, Why This World, 165.
“There are so many ways”: Cited in ibid., 166.
“there was not a wild beast”: Homer, The Odyssey, book 17.
“full of fleas”: Ibid.
“he dropped his ears”: Ibid.
According to French Kennel Club rules: See www.braquedubourbonnais .info/en/dog-name.htm; also Grenier, The Difficulty of Being a Dog, 60.
after Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi: See Grenier, The Difficulty of Being a Dog, 60.
“old dog”: Cited in Adams, Shaggy Muses, 44.
“an old mangy creature”: Ibid.
“mange-ridden”: Audry, Behind the Bathtub, 47.
“slobbering, overweight”: Ibid., 48.
“slobbering mongrels”: Ibid.
“When you love a dog”: Grenier, The Difficulty of Being a Dog, 29.
“A dog’s life”: Bonaparte, Topsy, 85.
“She was 95”: Grenier, The Difficulty of Being a Dog, 29.
CHAPTER 22: VENOM
“A tiger perhaps”: Berkeley, My Life and Recollections, 182.
“She has got an antelope”: The Journal of Mrs. Arbuthnot, 36.
“a peculiar”: Vane, preface to Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, 82.
“Contradicting their looks”: Rush, Memoranda of a Residence at the Court of London, 51.
“Two pet dogs”: Ibid., 185.
“sharing the small space”: Brownlow, Slight Reminiscences of a Septuagenarian, 67.
“the sinews of the first”: “Lord Castlereagh,” 548.
“lest my ill will”: Cited in Bew, Castlereagh, 440.
“a favorite dog”: “Lord Castlereagh,” 548.
“had hitherto overwhelmed”: Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne, 187.
“It was not until”: Ibid.
a satirical pamphlet: Hone, Official Account of the Noble Lord’s Bite!.
“driving in an open carriage”: Meyrick, House Dogs and Sporting Dogs, 65.
“The bull-dog is scarcely”: Youatt, The Dog, 98.
“speedily become profligate”: Youatt, The Obligation and Extent of Humanity to Brutes, 169.
“Who will believe”: Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 36–37.
“Everyone I know”: Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto, 26.
The bulldog story: Bulldog history compiled from Caius, Of Englishe Dogges; and Shaw, The Illustrated Book of the Dog.
“Of all the dogs”: The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart, 6.
“Of all dogs”: “A Chapter on Dogs,” 41.
CHAPTER 23: WESSEX
“Two things”: Orel, The Final Years of Thomas Hardy, 87.
“My husband”: Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy, 247.
“Florence’s unspeakable dog”: Tomalin, Thomas Hardy, 317.
“the most despotic dog”: Cited in Millgate, Thomas Hardy, 489.
On Christmas Day, Wessex: Ibid.
“Wessie sends his love”: Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy, 170.
getting up early: Tomalin, Thomas Hardy, 340.
Henry Watkins, whom he welcomed: Anecdote about Watkins told in Flower, “Walks and Talks with Thomas Hardy,” 231–32.
“We miss him”: Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy, 170.
“Of course he was”: Ibid., 247.
“But I mustn’t write”: Ibid.
“Excessive dog love”: Gopnik, “Dog Story,” 47.
“the pathos-laden presence”: Baudrillard, “The System of Collecting,” 10.
“Don’t all loves”: Garber, Dog Love, 93.
Edmund Leach has a different explanation: See Serpell, In the Company of Animals, 67.
“who is evidently”: Cited in Tomalin, Thomas Hardy, 362.
“beset with desire”: Ibid., 363. See also Richardson, “The Many-Sided Thomas Hardy.”
CHAPTER 24: XOLOTL
the doglike deity Xolotl: Summary of the Xolo’s history from the American Kennel Club, www.akc.org/breeds/xoloitzcuintli/history.cfm.
the Xolo’s importance: Xolo breed trends summarized from Judie Smith, “Mirasol Xoloitzcuintli,” http://mirasolxolos.webs.com/xolohistory.htm.
he was also a rebel, like his mistress: Señor Xolotl’s antics described in Tibol, Frida Kahlo, 158.
Sightings of them: White, Myths of the Dog-Man, 1–20.
“kind of like”: Fortean Times, April 2012, 72.
“In Yorkshire folklore”: Ibid.
“the actual”: Hole, Witchcraft in England, 40.
familiars usually take the form: Details ibid., 35–45.
“fiendish servants”: Kunze, Highroad to the Stake, 386.
“lesser demon”: Russell, Witchcraft in the Middle Ages, 191.
“were often given”: Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, 60–63.
people do prefer dogs that look similar: Coren, “Do Dogs Look Like Their Owners?”
“French bullgod”: http://tatianaromanova.piczo.com/ortino?cr=5& linkvar=000044.
CHAPTER 25: YOFI
“One can love”: Beck and Katcher, Between Pets and People, 127.
“with a high level”: Grinker, Fifty Years in Psychiatry, 9.
“high-risk dogs”: In a study in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, out of 238 fatalities related to dog bites from 1979 to 1998, chows were responsible for eight. See Sacks, Sinclair, and Gilchrist, “Breeds of Dogs Involved in Fatal Human Attacks.”
“She is a charming creature”: Cited in Green, “Freud’s Dream Companions,” 67.
“a little lion-like creature”: H.D., Tribute to Freud, 98.
“passionate affection”: Bonaparte, Topsy, 37.
“proudly erect”: Ibid., 80.
Freud and Yofi would eat together: Information about Freud’s and Yofi’s lunch from Green, “Freud’s Dream Companions,” 67.
“How does a little animal”: H.D., Tribute to Freud, 179.
“I wish you could”: Cited in Edmundson, The Death of Sigmund Freud, 91.
“One cannot easily get over”: Ibid., 92.
“animal asylum”: The Diary of Sigmund Freud, 252.
“nothing could have kept”: Ibid.
“I have never seen”: Ibid.
his jaw gave off a putrid smell: Edmundson, The Death of Sigmund Freud, 213–14.
“I am impressed”: Woodward, “Lucian Freud’s Whippet.”
Dorothy Burlingham had a gray Bedlington: H.D., Tribute to Freud, 174.
her cocker spaniel Butschi: See Hitchcock, Karen Horney, 93.
Lacan said that his boxer: See “The Seminar of Jacques Lacan,” 26.
Harry Stack Sullivan: See Clinebell, Contemporary Growth Therapies, 82.
recueillement: See von Armin, All the Dogs of My Life, 84.
CHAPTER 26: ZÉMIRE
Catherine the Great, whose favorite greyhound: Information compiled from Ross, The Book of Noble Dogs, 88–89.
the talent of her dog: Described in ibid., 137–39.
Chaser, a border collie trained: Nosowitz, “I Met the World’s Smartest Dog.”
Greek philosopher Diogenes: Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, 231–32.
“the most philosophical”: Plato, The Republic, 1.2.
“Did you ever”: Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, prologue.
“signs on paper”: Bonaparte, Topsy, 80.