Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

Janette Young and Neil Carr

2 Behind bars: contradictions in the expectations and experiences of life with marginalised companion animals

Ruthann Arletta Drummond

3 Dog shows as casual leisure: asymmetry of human and animal experience

Magdalena Dąbrowska

4 Dog showing and training: enjoyable hobbies or destructive practices that reinforce speciesist ideologies?

Scott Hurley

5 Off-leash recreation in an urban national recreation area: conflict between domesticated dogs, wildlife and semi-domesticated humans

Jackson Wilson, Aiko Yoshino and Pavlina Latkova

6 Walking the dog – chore or leisure?

Lisel O’Dwyer

7 Recentring companion species wellbeing in the leisure experience: towards multispecies flourishing through dog walking

Katrina Myrvang Brown and Petra Lackova

8 Domesticated dogs and ‘doings’ during the holidays

Bodil Stilling Blichfeldt and Katarína Leci Sakáčová

9 From labour to leisure: the relocation of animals in modern Western society

Janette Young and Amy Baker

10 Post-humanistic insight into human-equine interactions and wellbeing within leisure and tourism

Paula Danby

11 Pampered prisoners: meeting the ethological needs of the modern sport horse to enhanced equine welfare

Antonia J. Z. Henderson

12 Human-initiated animal fights

Erik Cohen

13 Domestic animals’ leisure, rights, wellbeing: nuancing ‘domestic’, asymmetries and into the future

Janette Young and Neil Carr

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