List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Canis Familiaris: A Dog History of Southern Africa (Lance van Sittert and Sandra Swart) -- Africanis: The Pre-Colonial Dog of Africa (Tim Maggs and Judith Sealy) -- A Short Paper about a Dog (Susie Newton-King) -- What the Dogs Knew: Intelligence and Morality in the Cape Colony (Elizabeth Green Musselman) -- Dogs and the Public Sphere: The Ordering of Social Space in Early Nineteenth-Century Cape Town (Kirsten McKenzie) -- Class and Canicide in Little Bess: The 1893 Port Elizabeth Rabies Epidemic (Lance van Sittert) -- Dogs, Poison and the Meaning of Colonial Intervention in the Transkei, South Africa (Jacob Tropp) -- Fido: Dog Tales of Colonialism in Namibia (Robert J. Gordon) -- Police Dogs and State Rationality in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa (Keith Shear) -- 'Gone to the Dogs': The Cultural Politics of Gambling- The Rise and Fall of British Greyhound Racing on the Witwatersrand, 1932-1949 (Albert Grundlingh) -- Social Subjects: Representations of Dogs in South African Fiction in English (Wendy Woodward) -- The Canine Metaphor in the Visual Arts (Meredith Palumbo) -- Dogs and Dogma: A Discussion of the Socio-Political Construction of Southern African Dog 'Breeds' as a Window onto Social History (Sandra Swart) -- Index.