Rescue Me

What exactly is it we want from dogs today? This is a little book about the oldest relationship we humans have cultivated with another large animalin something like the original interspecies space, as old or older than any other practice that might be called human. But its also about the role of this relationship in the attrition of lifeespecially social lifein late capitalism. As we become more and more obsessed with imagining ourselves as benevolent rescuers of dogs, it is increasingly clear that it is dogs who are rescuing us. But from what? And toward what? Exploring adoption, work, food, and training, this book considers the social as fundamentally more-than-human and argues that the future belongs to dogsand the humans they are pulling along.