I would like to thank my primary supervisor Ross Gibson for his guidance throughout this process. He ensured that the difficult task of completing a Ph.D. was made into a compelling intellectual, and creative journey. I thank him for his wise advice, good humour, and patience.

I would also like to thank Bethaney Turner for reading a draft of my thesis and offering invaluable insight into the gaps that needed to be filled. 

Thanks to Debra Hippisley, and Heather Mueller, for their kind and cheerful administrative support. 

The friendship and feedback of my Ph.D. cohort; Catherine Gough-Brady, Kim Munro, Liz Baulch, and Christine Rogers, made the process fun along the way. Thank you.

Thanks also to Hannah Brasier for teaching me the basics of Korsakow, and building the website for the film.  Thanks as well to Donna McRae for becoming the voiceover artist for the film. Thank you to Andrew Foster for  allowing me to use his painting ‘The Conversation’.

Archival footage of whippet racing: licensed footage from British Pathé

Archival paintings of dog breeds: public domain from https://freevintageillustrations.com

The film could not have been made without the participation of the following people and their dogs who kindly me allowed me to use footage that they had filmed; Dr Jana Colichis, Andrew Foster, Bill and Ben, Christina Heristanidis and Lulu, Finn Canadensis, Lucky and Jackson, Ros Winkler and Stirling, Heather Walkerden, Willow, Sunday and Rani,  Ginger and Soraya Ekselman, and Stella and Kuba, Marj Burke and Misty, Gargi Sen and the street dogs of Delhi.

And as always; to Agnes and Zelda, my whippets.