The Invention of Pets

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle (1963)

ASSET SOURCES

Survival International
http://goo.gl/6KUFWr
https://goo.gl/NOiUwg

Libyan Cave Painting Photos by Joe & Clair Carnegie / © Libyan Soup
https://goo.gl/RtBb02
https://goo.gl/MxW4Vb

Nenet And Chukchi With Dogs ©Jimmy Nelson Pictures B.V.
http://goo.gl/OMDiam

Black Lab Gray – Water Happiness by Emo Teofanov
https://goo.gl/ZikJBb

Descubren Insolito Entierro De Perros Prehispanicos by INAH
https://goo.gl/vX8eHC

Free Animal Videos.org
http://goo.gl/lWijWs

The Alex Foundation & Life With Alex
http://goo.gl/yJJdPi
https://goo.gl/U4Cm1U

BOOKS

Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin
http://goo.gl/25v54u

The Tiger In The House by Carl Van Vechten
http://goo.gl/jq7h6d

Parrot Culture by Bruce Thomas Boehrer
http://goo.gl/qhwclM

What’s A Dog For? By John Homans
http://goo.gl/MpFo1j

The Open: Man And Animal by Giorgio Agamben
http://goo.gl/sYdw83

Thinking Through Animals by Matthew Calarco
http://goo.gl/03f305

In The Company Of Animals by James Serpell
http://goo.gl/iTbfEx

ONLINE SOURCES

Cognitive Foundations of the Relationship between Humans and Animals among Hunter – Gatherers and Traditional Farmers
http://goo.gl/7KANzq

The Separation Of Human And Animal
http://goo.gl/prDweL

What Does It Mean To Be Human by Maria Popova
https://goo.gl/jw9R4x

Politics by Aristotle
http://goo.gl/NFPwze

Animation by Preston Blair
http://goo.gl/W0MZLW

Rene Descartes and Animals Are Automata
http://goo.gl/dT0GtI

Witches And Familiars
https://goo.gl/GBCtQF

The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton
https://goo.gl/bRU6v7

Dogs May Have Helped Humans Beat The Neanderthals
http://goo.gl/kgQWbx

2015-2016 APPA National Pet Owners Survey Statistics
http://goo.gl/2m4tnP

Darwin The Dog Lover
http://goo.gl/CIsmnK

The Big Search To Find Out Where Dogs Come From
http://goo.gl/8bWG3S

Dogs Are Even More Like Us Than We Thought by Maya Wei-Haas
http://goo.gl/v9jy4s

Dogs Not As Close Kin To Wolves As Thought
http://goo.gl/lb1qDC

DNA And Victorian Dog Fancy
http://goo.gl/TjlW73

A Biological Homage To Mickey Mouse by Stephen Jay Gould
http://goo.gl/cOJXZ2

Pride And Pedigree: The Evolution Of The Victorian Dog Fancy by Harriet Ritvo
http://goo.gl/XudZAq

Buccleuch’s Labrador Stud Book
http://goo.gl/131yXA

Oxytocin
http://goo.gl/lJcWsz

Dogs And Cats Can Love
http://goo.gl/TIIqMe

Were Cats Domesticated More Than Once
http://goo.gl/e6FSsO

How Humans Created Cats
http://goo.gl/3EorFs

Aesop’s Fables The Lion & The Mouse
http://goo.gl/tl95ob

The Kennel Club
http://goo.gl/uzWE0S

SPECIAL THANKS

BBC Earth & BBC Worldwide
https://goo.gl/7VdFDq
https://goo.gl/a5SS0K

Rhett & Link
https://goo.gl/OVes7E

Origin Of Dogs Traced by Joshua Marks
http://goo.gl/G882T0

Kevin Illustrations by Ian Gibson – Lead Artist at Sky Tyrannosaur
http://goo.gl/qncWBq

Dr. Juliane Kaminski
https://goo.gl/3iRFcc

Dr. Larry Young
http://goo.gl/X8EHBA

VIDEO CREDITS

Written, Produced, Edited and Hosted by Kevin Lieber
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Contributing Editor Matthew Tabor, Koala Fight Media