The_Political_Economy_Of_Pets

The Political Economy Of Pets Nearly every normal family has one, and why not' They’re cute and cuddly, they love you, and people love them. After all, pets are normal commodities, owned by normal people. In this paper I will be examining the political economy of pets. First of all you may be thinking “do pets have a political economy'” Well, of course they do. The first article I stumbled across, and the article that truly inspired the theme of this paper, is “Go Go Dog!’ And German Turks’ Demand For Pet Dogs” by A. Caglar. In this article the author discusses the functions of the pets that the German Turks own. There are three categories of dogs that are owned: The fighting dog, the guard dog, and the lap dog. Each dog serves a specific purpose, and therefore has certain ideal traits with which to serve that purpose. A guard dog is protective, and frightening; a fighting dog is macho, strong, and fierce; a lap dog is affectionate and loveable. People desiring to supplement their current identities with such traits own such dogs. The dog’s qualities become a part of the person’s image, and even status. I agree with the overview that Caglar presented pets, dog, pet, dogs, people, man, ownership, owners, market, young, turks, animals, german, three, thought, subject, one, men, lap, interesting, future, fighting, even, economy, culture, article, animal, trend, stores, status, reasons, political, owning, own, out, new