“…Animals emerge in personal arrangements as kin (Charles, 2014, Charles and Davies, 2008), and yet subject to power and gender relations that crosscut family dynamics (Irvine and Cilia, 2017), vulnerable to changes affecting families along its life course, such as relocating, losing one’s job and source of income, or the birth of a child (Shir-Vertesh, 2012). Family arrangements with life with pets are therefore multiple, accommodating in different ways the species differences (Doré et al, 2019, Fox, 2006, Power, 2008).…”