Pet Person

We take our long history of domesticating animals for granted. Thus the story of our steadfast companions through the centuries remains untold: left off museums’ specimen collections, unreported in publications of Royal Societies, and never to be observed in zoos.

Rebecca Giggs guides us through this secret history and considers what it might mean for the future of humanity. She reveals the complexity of our desires, the shifting boundaries between wild and tame, our search for a home and, most of all, our need to love and be loved. She gives us the opportunity to examine nature at its most familiar and asks: where do we draw the line between devotion and dominion?