The World According to Dogs
Larissa MacFarquhar writes on Stanley Coren’s “The Pawprints of History,” which suggests that dogs have been scanted in the historical record.
"In one particularly rigorous month in 1687, more than three hundred people were put to death for violating the Laws of Compassion" — on shogun Tsunayoshi, born in the Year of the Dog, who made even ignoring a dog punishable by death