Animal - Dog - The Best Of Chessie Moore -mixed Beastiality

An interdisciplinary literary‑cultural analysis of mixed‑breed representation in modern dog‑centric storytelling

Early literary depictions of dogs often cast them as (e.g., loyalty, ferocity). Scholars such as C. M. Baker (2014) argue that these representations reinforce anthropocentric hierarchies, while J. Hines (2019) demonstrates how contemporary authors employ the dog as a mirror for post‑human concerns. Animal - Dog - The Best Of Chessie Moore -Mixed Beastiality

The recent anthology (2025) compiles a diverse selection of short stories, poems, and illustrated vignettes that foreground mixed‑breed dogs as cultural symbols, narrative agents, and sites of identity negotiation. This paper investigates how Moore’s work reconfigures traditional notions of purity, pedigree, and anthropocentric hierarchy by foregrounding “mixedness” as a literary and aesthetic strategy. Drawing on theories of animal studies, hybridity, and narrative ethics, the analysis demonstrates that the anthology simultaneously (1) celebrates the lived realities of mixed‑breed dogs, (2) critiques the commodification of pedigree breeding, and (3) proposes a speculative ecology of interspecies companionship. The study concludes that Moore’s “Mixed Beast‑iality”—a neologism that deliberately plays on the word “beastial” to foreground the beastly (animal) rather than the illicit—offers a model for humane, imaginative engagement with domestic animals in contemporary literature. Visual storytelling thus reinforces a

Visual storytelling thus reinforces a , echoing Nussbaum’s call for recognizing animal capacities for reciprocal relationships. and narrative ethics

Future research might extend this analysis to representations of mixed‑breed animals, or explore digital media adaptations that further democratize animal subjectivity.