Episode Six: Good Boy

In 1920, a young writer named Hugh Lofting published the first Dr. Dolittle story. A century years later, Jill Lepore goes in search of the new Dr. Dolittles changing the world of animal science. Specifically, dog science. For a transcript of this episode, click here.

KEY SOURCES

• “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae

• The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

• Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz

• What Dogs Know by Juliane Bräuer and Juliane Kaminski

• “Darwin and Vivisection” from University of Cambridge

• The Animal Mind: A Text-book of Comparative Psychology by Margaret Floy Washburn

Special thanks to Pace Amidon, Wes Crawford, Emily-Jane Dawson, Joseph Dusenbury, Kyle Huizenga, Neil Knobloch, Ben Meyer, Amy Mitchell, Linda Whiting, Gabe Wilson, and the Rohrbacher family.