"When the brown dog memorial was erected in London during 1906 as a simple protest against animal experiments, it caused an extraordinary national controversy. A deliberately provocative monument to a martyred mongrel, it became an anti-establischment emblem supported by a radical coalition of suffragettes, trade unionists and members of the fledgling labour movement. It led to serious disorder in the streets of the capital, sparked off the "brown dog riots" of 1907, and set the country humming with debate over the rights and wrongs of vivisection - until its dramatic disappearance five years later. Peter Mason charts one of the most intriguing controversies of Edwardian Britain". (Descripción editorial-autoral).

"Cuando se erigió el monumento al perro marrón en Londres durante 1906 como una simple protesta contra los experimentos con animales, causó una extraordinaria controversia nacional. Un monumento deliberadamente provocativo a un mestizo mártir, se convirtió en un emblema antisistema apoyado por una coalición radical de sufragistas, sindicalistas y miembros del incipiente movimiento obrero..."