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It is not the intention of this chapter to examine working dogs per se, though such a focus is not without value. Rather, this chapter focuses on working dogs where they intersect with the leisure environment. Consequently, one of the foci of this chapter will be examining how the presence of working dogs in an environment has been utilized to construct idealized images of leisure and tourism landscapes. This discussion will cover both contemporary uses of representations of working dogs in landscapes to promote places as tourist or leisure environments, and how such use has evolved over time, and how the representation and positioning of the working dog may have altered. Another focus of this chapter will be a discussion of the extent to which dogs are employed as workers in the tourism and leisure industry and the history of this use. This chapter will also encompass a discussion of the changing role of working dogs in the face of the changing nature of experiences sought by tourists and leisured people. The discussions within this chapter will be grounded in the issue of animal rights and will discuss changing patterns in the use of working dogs in leisure and tourism experiences in line with altering social moral values, focusing on the construction of dogs as tools or objects to be used and/or owned by humans in the leisure and tourism environment.