Such passages destabilize the notion of a singular, pure identity, aligning with Bhabha’s “third space” where new meaning emerges.
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.
This paper asks:
“In the quiet exchange of warmth, species dissolve.”
Moore’s use of —pairing the sterile language of breeding registries with emotive, sensory imagery—exposes the reduction of living beings to bureaucratic categories. Animal - Dog - The Best Of Chessie Moore -Mixed Beastiality
The poem employs satirical irony:
By co‑opting the phonology of “bestiality,” Moore creates a : “beast‑iality” becomes a celebration of the beastly (animal) perspective, not a reference to illicit sexual acts. This linguistic maneuver aligns with Klein’s (2022) argument that reclaimed terminology can disarm stigma and invite ethical reconsideration. Such passages destabilize the notion of a singular,
In the story , the mutt “Marlowe” narrates in first‑person, describing his body as a “patchwork of Labrador, Border Collie, and stray street‑wise instincts.” The prose foregrounds bodily hybridity as a source of epistemic plurality:
Mixed‑breed dogs, animal studies, hybridity, narrative ethics, domesticity, Chessie Moore, speculative ecology, cultural representation Drawing on theories of animal studies, hybridity, and