ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the ways in which space and place are co-produced by humans and animals within specific cultural contexts. It examines the key sites through which animals are produced as pets, from the intimate domestic space of the home, to the numerous public and commercial spaces in which animals are transformed into suitable inhabitants of the modern world. The chapter discusses the places that animals themselves create within and between these spaces, the lively cartographies of cross-species' relating that challenge human understandings of spatial boundaries and create new geographies of multispecies inhabitation. Companion animals have become increasingly integrated into the domestic space of the home during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Animals are now firmly integrated into human spaces of consumption, with all manner of luxury products, services and activities available to 'enhance' the human-animal bond, from gourmet pet foods to diamond collars, doga to agility training, pet sitting to behavioural therapy.
