ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the ways in which the Animals' Protection Society is as necessary and important as the Children's Protection Society (CPS). It suggests that stories of infant pets not only anthropomorphize animals but also construct an idealized childhood based on the portrayed pethood. Long articles on cleaning and training the bodies of infant pets, alongside tips on healthy feeding, aim not to tell the stories of the pet but rather seek to build a modern discourse that emphasizes hygienic childcare practices. The chapter also suggests that a modern nationalist rhetoric on childcare and education used stories of infant animals and the images of pets in visualizing the notions of protection, affection, discipline, submission, and hygiene in the CPS journals. The other set of ideas consists of protection, orphanhood, discipline, and affection, which frequently materialized in the stories of infant animals in need of protection, adoption, and training.
