The lives and deaths of shelter animals / Katja M. Guenther.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guenther, Katja M., 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal shelters--United States--Sociological aspects.

Animal shelters.

Euthanasia of animals--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Euthanasia of animals.

Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Animal welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 295 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many other dogs at the shelter, Monster is associated with marginalized humans and assumed to embody certain behaviors because of his breed. And like approximately one million shelter animals each year, Monster will be killed. The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals takes us inside one of the country's highest-intake animal shelters. Katja M. Guenther witnesses the dramatic variance in the narratives assigned different animals, including Monster, which dictate their chances for survival. She argues that these inequalities are powerfully linked to human ideas about race, class, gender, ability, and species. Guenther deftly explores internal hierarchies, breed discrimination, and importantly, instances of resistance and agency.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1 Monster’s World

2 Helping/Policing/Killing

3 The Myth of the Irresponsible Owner

4 The Struggle for Shelter Animal Survival

5 The Transformative Power of Grief

6 The Peculiar Problem of Pit Bulls

7 Animals’ Resistance to Shelter Rule

8 Waiting, Wondering, and Wavering

9 A New Revolution

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781503612860

1503612864

OCLC:

1202623355