How dogs shaped city life
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How the Street Dogs Came to Be Dangerous and Degenerate
Historians argue that street dogs came to be seen as increasingly dangerous, diseased and degenerate. Partly this was because of rabies in the rapidly urbanizing cities of the nineteenth century. Pet dogs were viewed as being hygienic, well-looked after; street dogs 'dirty' And breed is also important: there was a codification of scientific raceism at the end of the 19th century. This bled into fears about street dogs which made them more unwelcome.
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