Abstract: “Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine. Urine is another and highly complex source of social information,” writes J. R. Ackerley in My Dog Tulip (47). Published in 1956, Tulip, a memoir, chronicles the 16-year companionship of Ackerley, a gay writer working for the BBC, and Tulip, a female Alsatian, unspayed for most of her life. Together, this dyad share an apartment in London, spending most of their time in the city negotiating their copresence in the urban landscape. Nor does it get easier in the countr...
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