To Infinity and Beyond: the Future of Dogs, Humans, and their Relationship
Susan McHugh's book Dog provided some very interesting insight on humans' perspectives of dogs and is a great example of how we use representation to express ideas about ourselves, our experiences, and our world. At the beginning of chapter four, Dog Futures, McHugh mentions a particular film called Cats and Dogs (2001). The movie is about a secret organization that fights an everyday war of which humans are completely unaware of. Two armies of cats and dogs struggle against each other; the loyal dogs protect the current world where the sinister cats try to change the current situation for their own benefit. All in all, it's a fitting film to demonstrate the way we use dogs as a complex representation of ourselves. It is likely that most people would simply brush off Cats and Dogs as a child's film with little depth, and this does make sense since the movie is aimed at eight-year-olds. In fact many people, especially adults, trea...