Animal Lover is an interspecies collaboration between artist Julie Andreyev and her companion dogs Tom and Sugi. The projects converge on questions and critiques addressing modern relationships with animals, and how humans regard animals.

Within the Animal Lover body of works, the goal is to represent the animal as a being with agency having its own subjective experience of the world, and the ability to communicate and express intention.

The experimental aspects of the projects involve, besides the use of new media and technologies, ethical treatment and exploratory modes of representation. The dogs directly participate in the research and content creation of the work; they are asked to perform tasks and they cognitively determine the specific response, which then becomes the material used in the production of the artwork.

Animal Lover works are produced with support from the Canada Council for the Arts.