The tinier the dog, the bigger the man.
In her upcoming book “Yap! A Short History of Small Dogs,” animal historian and pug owner Stephanie Howard-Smith says that for the modern man, touting around a “small, ‘tiny’ dog in public can demonstrate [his] absolute confidence in his masculinity.”
“[They] have no need to overcompensate by owning a typically macho dog,” Howard-Smith writes in the book, which covers the last 2,500 years of the relationship between man and his pint-sized best friend and explores the history of famous small pups of the past. It is set to be released by Granta Books and Ballantine Books in October of this year.
Though there…
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