Author Archives: The Righter

An excerpt from the Doggerel files dictionary entry by the popular historian Hedger Cumberway Most of the world’s literature about Dogs has been written by humans (known to Dogs as ‘hooms’ in the original Doggerel). This was somewhat inevitable given that Doglore has never been expressed, let alone communicated, in media accessible to humans over[Read more >]

By Lord Downboy of the Dogwallah Group The previous files (2 and 3) introduced and identified the Great Fiction that Dogs were domesticated by humans. The precise opposite is the truth: dogs domesticated humans to save humans from themselves. This became known in Doglore as the First Compact. We have discovered other examples to support[Read more >]

By Professor Barkus of the Long Memory School and Pixie Bluff of the Poodle Collective. The previous file (3) introduced and identified the Great Fiction that Dogs became associated with humans by accident and were then domesticated by them. The precise opposite is the truth: dogs domesticated humans deliberately so as to save humans from[Read more >]

By Professor Barkus of the Long Memory School. If human histories are to be believed, humans domesticated the dog. This assertion  has been repeated so often that he vast majority of humans now regard it as established fact. This is a misunderstanding on an epic scale. We call it the Great Fiction. Dogs did not[Read more >]