… and here’s the pets chapter of MCMoM, as put through Wordle:

It’s about people and dogs.

(Note to cat-, bird-, fish-, and other-non-canine-pet-lovers: I’m not prejudiced against your pets, but it’s dogs that create the need for etiquette guidance. As I explain in the book, “as the most social of pets, [dogs] are the ones that most often bring their owners into contact with people. Strangers aren’t likely to pet your Jack Dempsey fighting fish without permission, and if a ferret sticks its nose in your crotch you are probably in a Farrelly Brothers movie, which puts you well beyond the reach of etiquette advice. So while the recommendations for handling pets apply to all animals—and, as you’ll see, much more occasionally other enthusiasms—I’ll let the family dog drag us around the block of pet psychology and etiquette.”)