Mary Thurston is available for technical and research consultations.   As a former curator and  historian specializing in companion animal history, Mary has worked as a film consultant for documentaries airing on the History Channel, Animal Planet, PBS,  A and E Network, CNN and the BBC.  She is author of the 1996 groundbreaking work, The Lost History of the Canine Race, was a contributing editor to Dr. Johnson's Apple Orchard: the story of America's first pet cemetery (1997),  A Thousand Hounds: the history of the dog in photography (2000), and more recently, two editions of encyclopedia exploring the many ways animals contribute to human life.