A Hearth for a Dog: The Paradoxes of Soviet Pet Keeping

Abstract

Shur’a moved in and stared pointedly at the bench where I was sitting, stepping aside only grudgingly when my hostess approached with the teapot. “That’s really his spot,” she noted casually, turning back to the kitchen for more food. As I moved from the padded comfort of the bench to the rickety uncertainty of a bentwood chair, the Borzoi gracefully wedged his massive frame onto what I now realized was “his” cushion. Yawning and licking his chops, he waited for Galla to finish setting the table. It was 1989 and I was in the midst of an unusual, but not really extraordinary encounter with late Soviet pet-keeping culture.

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