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The Best of Chessie Moore: Mixed “Beast‑iality” in Contemporary Canine Narrative
An interdisciplinary literary‑cultural analysis of mixed‑breed representation in modern dog‑centric storytelling

3.1 Corpus

The anthology comprises 24 pieces: 14 short stories, 6 poems, and 4 illustrated vignettes. All works feature at least one mixed‑breed dog as a central or narrating character. Animal - Dog - The Best Of Chessie Moore -Mixed Beastiality

5.2 Ethical Implications

Moore’s anthology insists that mixed‑breed dogs possess subjective interiority equal to that of pure‑bred or human characters. This stance supports a rights‑based ethic (Donaldson & Kymlicka 2011) that demands legal and cultural recognition of mixed‑breed animals beyond rescue stereotypes.

2.3 Narrative Ethics and the Non‑Human Subject

Martha Nussbaum (2006) and Sue Donaldson & Will Kymlicka (2011) have advocated for recognizing animals as moral subjects within narrative structures. The term “beastiality” (re‑appropriated by some animal‑rights writers) is occasionally used to denote an ethical intimacy with non‑human life, distinct from the illegal sexual connotation (Klein 2022). Moore’s subtitle explicitly engages this linguistic reclamation. A respectful short story or profile about a

4.2 Resistance to Pedigree Ideology

The poem “Pedigree Papers” employs satirical irony:

“They stamp my tail with a number,
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Moore’s use of formal subversion—pairing the sterile language of breeding registries with emotive, sensory imagery—exposes the reduction of living beings to bureaucratic categories.

5.3 Contribution to Literary Hybridity

The works collectively demonstrate how species hybridity can parallel cultural hybridity, expanding the analytical toolbox of literary scholars. By treating mixedness as productive rather than deficient, Moore challenges the pedigree paradigm and offers a template for future ecocritical studies.

3.2 Analytical Framework

  1. Close Reading – Each piece was examined for narrative voice, point‑of‑view, and linguistic markers that attribute agency to the animal.
  2. Thematic Coding – Using NVivo, passages were coded under the following provisional themes: Hybrid Identity, Resistance to Pedigree Norms, Companionship as Mutuality, and Speculative Ecologies.
  3. Comparative Mapping – Findings were juxtaposed with existing scholarship on pure‑breed narratives (Baker 2014; Hines 2019) to highlight divergences.

Keywords

Mixed‑breed dogs, animal studies, hybridity, narrative ethics, domesticity, Chessie Moore, speculative ecology, cultural representation

4. Analysis