Author: kcgrier
I'm a historian who writes about the evolving relationships of people with animals. My blog, The Pet Historian, focuses on Americans' relationships with their pets from the eighteenth century to the present. I use material and visual culture to help tell this complicated and fascinating story.
Working with my graduate students at the University of Delaware, I also created a website called Disposable America, where we use digital journalism to explore the history of disposability and its material legacy.
Pet skunks Micky and Katy try to write their own story….1939
Sensational Scents: Skunks as Pets
Another Enormous Cat with a Postcard of His Own
Happy New Year from Nix…and me.
A Christmas Stocking for a Parakeet
Pets for Christmas 1906: Lathrop’s Pet Stock Shop, Rochester, New York
National Mutt Day!
Happy Thanksgiving! A Bronze Turkey’s Photographic Portrait, ca. 1880
The Pet Historian 