“Be[a]ware of the Dog”: A Post‐Humanist Approach to Housing

Renting with pets: a pathway to housing insecurity?

“…For people living in single-person households, a growing demographic, companion animals can be a significant source of regular social contact (Franklin & Tranter, 2011). There is also a growing tendency for companion animals to be viewed as family members (Blouin, 2013;Fox, 2006;Power, 2008), with 88 per cent of households in Australia (Franklin, 2006) and 63.2 per cent in the US (Burns, 2013) describing their pets this way. Power (2008) shows that in many instances, companion animals come to be viewed as core 'more-than-human' members of the family, with household practices shifting to incorporate their needs and interests.…”

“…There have been two dimensions to this change. The first is a steady shift that has seen animals such as dogs increasingly moved from living primarily outside the house to assuming residence inside; the second has seen companion animals welcomed within formerly 'human' spaces such as living areas and bedrooms (Franklin, 2006;Grier, 2006). In Australia, for instance, Franklin (2006) found that dogs were allowed in living rooms in 76 per cent of households and bedrooms in 52 per cent.…”

“…Despite the ubiquity of companion animals across households in Australia, the United States and United Kingdom (where they are found in 63, 62 and 47 per cent of households, respectively, see Animal Health Alliance, 2013;Humane Society, 2014;PFMA, 2014) and the growing tendency for these animals to be considered as family members (Franklin, 2006;Power, 2008), they have rarely been considered as important cohabitants of rental housing within policy or research. Within rental policy, investor concerns about the risks of companion animals (e.g.…”

Critical evaluation of the use of dogs in biomedical research and testing in Europe

“…In the past the relationship between humans and dogs was often more practical and so humans provided food, shelter and social contacts, while the dog contributed by herding, protection and hunting. Pet dog populations grew significantly after World War II as urbanization increased (Derr, 2004) and in the 1950s and 1960s, dogs were still kept outside more often than today (Franklin, 2006). In many Western countries and Japan dogs are now included in families and homes (Power, 2008).…”

Animal Autobiography; Or, Narration beyond the Human

“…By contrast, Savvides [22], in her account of canine autobiographies used to promote the welfare of street or "soi" dogs in Bangkok, Thailand, finds in those animal autobiographies a more thoroughgoing hybridity. Drawing on Franklin's sociological studies of human-canine relationships vis-à-vis domestic living arrangements ( [23]; see also [24,25]), Savvides describes such accounts as a product of identifications that, result in ontological as well as generic hybridization. She argues that the canine autobiographies in question "allow their human readers to understand...soi dogs as not-unlike-humans, or, perhaps, to understand that humans are not-unlike-soi dogs" ( [22], p. 241).…”