PETS IN THE VICTORIAN HOME
"The Toys"

For a fashionable woman in Victorian England a pet miniature dog was as indispensable as an opera box or presentation at court.  She was nobody without her pet who accompanied her wherever she went, and was fed and housed, according to canine requirements, as daintily as the heir to the title and estates. The fashion in lapdogs changed as rapidly as that in gowns and bonnets. 

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