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If you count yourself among those who cannot imagine life without your faithful dog by your side, you would have been a pretty rare breed a century or two ago.

That's when packs of feral dogs were roaming the streets of Detroit.

People lived in fear of rabies, and the dog catcher prowled the streets scooping¹ up the many strays.

Bill Loomis has tracked the history of dogs in Detroit for The Detroit News.

Loomis tells us that during the late 19th and 20th centuries, stray dogs were an issue not only in Detroit, but across the country.

"It was just like rats, they were out of people's control," Loomis says.

As a result, rabies was a huge problem, according to Loomis.

"The dogs would bite kids," he says. "People in general would just run at the sight of a mad dog.… There was over 90% chance that you would die if you had rabies."

But on the flip² side, Detroit also saw pampered³ pooches long before Paris Hilton carted her Chihuahua Tinkerbell across the world.

Loomis says for many turn-of-the-century dogs in Detroit, life was good.

"You slept on satin pillows and you ate clean chicken and mushrooms," he says. "You had footmen that attended to you, and you were given special rides. It was almost laughable."

Bill Loomis runs us through the rest of Detroit's history with dogs in our conversation above.

1 scooping   

n.捞球v.抢先报道( scoop的现在分词 )；（敏捷地）抱起；抢先获得；用铲[勺]等挖（洞等）

参考例句：

• Heated ice cream scoop is used for scooping really cold ice cream. 加热的冰淇淋勺是用来舀非常凉的冰淇淋的。 来自互联网
• The scoop-up was the key phase during a scooping cycle. 3个区间中，铲取区间是整个作业循环的关键。 来自互联网

2 flip   

vt.快速翻动；轻抛；轻拍；n.轻抛；adj.轻浮的

参考例句：

• I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
• Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。

3 pampered   

adj.饮食过量的，饮食奢侈的v.纵容，宠，娇养( pamper的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The lazy scum deserve worse. What if they ain't fed up and pampered? 他们吃不饱，他们的要求满足不了，这又有什么关系？ 来自飘（部分）
• She petted and pampered him and would let no one discipline him but she, herself. 她爱他，娇养他，而且除了她自己以外，她不允许任何人管教他。 来自辞典例句