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Almost my first awareness of my own identity was as a dog lover. I do not know how this came about. It almost feels as if my love of dogs was born with me. I was about five years old when I became fully aware of loving dogs. I mention this here, at the outset, because it seems remarkable to me now that over 50 years later, after I have built almost an entire career writing about social work practice and theory (and mostly not about dogs), that I am finally writing about how the two connect -dogs and social work.
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Fook, J. (2014). The Meaning of Animals in Women’s Lives: The Importance of the ‘Domestic’ Realm to Social Work. In: Ryan, T. (eds) Animals in Social Work. The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137372291_2
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