Yap! a short history of small dogs

"Yap! Whether that sound suggests an irritating little runt of a dog or a sweet huggable bundle of canine fluff, you need to curl up with this captivating, informative, anecdotal history of our most diminutive four-legged friends. Dogs have been valued members of our societies for tens of thousands...

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Main Author: Howard-Smith, Stephanie (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, 2026.
Edition:First edition.
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520 |a "Yap! Whether that sound suggests an irritating little runt of a dog or a sweet huggable bundle of canine fluff, you need to curl up with this captivating, informative, anecdotal history of our most diminutive four-legged friends. Dogs have been valued members of our societies for tens of thousands of years. They've guarded our homes, herded our flocks, hunted our food, and rescued us when we've needed help. But since ancient times, little terriers and lapdogs have enriched human lives in a different way. For millennia we've bred and kept them, both because they work for us and they bring us joy. Animal historian Dr. Stephanie Howard-Smith tells the story of our smallest working canines and our beloved companions in a series of fun, lapdog-sized chapters, each of which focuses on a famous historical pooch. From the convents of medieval Europe, where nuns hid small dogs to be their faithful friends (despite the disapproval of male church leaders) to King Charles's Spaniels, Queen Victoria's Pekingese, Paris Hilton's Chihuahua, and the pet influencers of twenty-first-century social media, Yap! follows the pawprints of the pups who set the mold for the dogs we share our homes with today. Celebrating the petite companions with whom we've had our longest and closest relationship, from the lean mean little terriers who've kept our homes vermin-free, to our precious French Bulldogs and Toy Poodles, Terriers and Dachshunds, Pomeranians and Pugs, Shih Tzus and Spaniels, Howard-Smith presents a heartfelt ode to the yapping little dogs that have shaped our lives as much as we have shaped theirs: how they've evolved from working dogs to couch companions, providing the blueprint for the modern canine, and offered us companionship when we've most needed it."--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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