Book review: ‘Medieval pets’ by Kathleen Walker-Meikle (2012)

I love pets, I love the Middle Ages, so how could I resist this book! As with most of my book reviews I’ll just share some bits I found interesting and talk a bit about what I think here and there, if needed. I will also share a few photos of my pets being a bit medieval, like Beike here: Beike re-enacting a medieval illumination, hat was stuck to the gate, she only had to sit still for a few seconds and was well rewarded for the effort. First quote from the book, some of the types of dogs medieval people classified: “Among the remaining English dogs, Caius discusses working dogs, which include the ‘mastiue or Bandogge’, the ‘Dogge keeper’ (a guard dog), the ‘Butchers Dogge’, the ‘Molossus’, the ‘Dogge messinger’ who ‘carrieth letters from place to place, wrapped up cunningly in his lether collar’, the ‘Mooner’ (a dog who barks at the moon), the ‘water drawer’ (turns well wheels), the ‘Tynckers Curre’ (which carries the tinker’s buckets on its back), and ‘defending dogges’. Caius…