I am the dog
: Canine Abjection, Species Reversal, and Misanthropic Satire in The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Jean-Léon Gérôme, Diogenes of Sinope (1860). Photo © The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication. https://art.thewalters.org.
Remembering the Elephant: Animal Reason before the Eighteenth Century

William Kent and Paul Fourdrinier, Illustration for John Gay's fable "The Elephant and the Bookseller" (1727). Photo © The Trustees of the British Museum, London. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. https://www.britishmuseum.org.
The Natural History of the Houyhnhnms: Noble Horses in Gulliver's Travels

Sawrey Giplin, Gulliver Reprimanded and Silenced by his Master, when Describing the Horrors of War (1805). Photo © York Museums Trust. CC Public Domain Mark 1.0. https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk