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The Human/Animal Relationship As 'subjects of human activity as well as objects of human curiosity' (Ritvo, 1987 p.11), animals attract all sorts of people; the old and young, rich and poor, man or woman. In Britain, especially, there appears to be an important socio-historic reasoning for this. With the rapid urbanisation of the 16th Century onwards, people were no longer living alongside animals in the countryside and while animals were still prominent in cities, man had to develop new relationships with them as a result of this new environment. Thomas (1983) asserts that 'between 1500 and 1800...there occurred...changes in the way men and women...perceived and classified the natural world around them...new sensibilities arose about animals, plants and landscape' (Thomas, 1983: 15). While Ritvo (1987) focuses on the human/animal relationship of the Victorian times only, she corroborates this change but in association with the legal status of animals....

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