Our Dogs, Ourselves by Alexandra Horowitz

What do dogs know and how do they know it? Tell me about your pets. The Wildest talked to Horowitz about adopting Quid and what she hopes readers will take away from her new book.Īlexandra Horowitz, The Canine Mindseeker Part memoir, part science report, The Year of the Puppy is an empathetic and informative look into what our dogs go through early in their development. Her new book, which was released this fall, The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves, documents the growth of Horowitz’s pandemic puppy, Quiddity (Quid), during her first year of life. Horowitz’s findings have been detailed in the delightful books including the N ew York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know Our Dogs, Ourselves:The Story of a Singular Bond and Being a Dog: Following the Dog into a World of Smell - the latter two of which have companion young readers editions. She and her students conduct their research in the Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab, a center where dogs are brought in for the day by their pet parents - not namelessly confined in cages long-term - to be observed with the goal of understanding how dogs perceive the world. I first heard of her as a freshman at Barnard College, when my pet-obsessed friends told me there was a much-loved professor on campus who was famous for studying dog cognition. In the field of canine science, Alexandra Horowitz, PhD, is nothing short of a legend. See our privacy statement to find out how we collect and use your data, to contact us with privacy questions or to exercise your personal data rights.

Our Dogs, Ourselves by Alexandra Horowitz