Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
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What do dogs know? How do they reflect? The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, clarifies how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each additional, and that additional odd animal, the human.
Inside of a Dog is a fresh look at the world of dogs — from the dog’s point of view. As a dog owner, Horowitz is naturally curious to learn what her dog thinks about and knows. And as a scientist, she is intent on understanding the minds of animals who cannot speak for themselves.
In clear, crisp prose, Horowitz introduces the reader to dogs’ perceptual and cognitive abilities and then draws a picture of what it might be like to be a dog. What’s it like to be able to smell not just every bit of open food in the house but also to smell sadness in humans or even the passage of time? How does a tiny dog manage to play successfully with a Fantastic Dane? What is it like to hear the bodily vibrations of insects or the hum of a fluorescent light? Why must a person on a bicycle be chased? What’s it like to use your mouth as a hand? In fleeting, what is it like for a dog to experience life from two feet off the ground, amidst the smells of the sidewalk, staring at our ankles or knees?
Inside of a Dog clarifies these things and much more. The answers can be surprising — once we set aside our natural inclination to anthropomorphize dogs. Inside of a Dog also contains up-to-the-minute research — on dogs’ detection of disease, the secrets of their tails, and their skill at reading our attention — that Horowitz puts into useful context. Although not a proper training guide, Inside of a Dog has practical application for dog lovers interested in understanding why their dogs do what they do.
The relationship between dogs and humans is arguably the most fascinating animal-human bond because dogs evolved from wild creatures to become our companions, an adaptation that changed their bodies, brains, and behavior. Yet dogs permanently remain animals, familiar but mysterious. With a light touch and the weight of science behind her, Alexandra Horowitz examines the animal we reflect we know best but may really know the least. This book is as close as you can get to knowing about dogs lacking being a dog yourself.
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The leader and readers may also like to know the following:
One of the Chinese characters for dog contains exactly the dog’s head, black nose, and 4 legs.
(The drawings appear on page 48 of the book, Learning Chinese The Simple Way or Adventures in Mandarin Chinese )
Also, once I told a friend the dog is pronounced /gou/ in Chinese.
He responded: “It’s about right! My dog barked when it heard /gou/.”
Sam Song
Leader,
Learn Chinese Through Song! with fantastic fun and joy!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I never received the book that was ordered, so it is hard to give a review. I had to reorder from another seller.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I like my dog, and who doesn’t like thier dogs, so I came across this book and just had to get it. It really told me a lot about how dogs are–sog psychology, if you will–and I was amazed at the things they do. I reflect this is a fantastic read, to some extent like the dog whipserer on tv, and should be read by all people who like their dogs.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
There are no new revelations in this book. It may be a excellent reference for persons unfamiliar with dogs.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This book addresses an extremely interest theme, and parts of the book are reasonably well-written. Some of the information, like the biology of scent and vision, was appealing and useful. And there were some excellent tales about Pump, the leader’s dog.
But the book tried to lower a lot of dog behaviors to biology and evolution. I did not find these attempts especially persuasive. Who’s to say a dog does not have emotions at least as deep and meaningful as a human’s?
I did not find this book was all that helpful either in trying to communicate with my dog. Some of the dogs the leader talks about seemed a lot smarter than my dog. My dog mostly cares about food, and to some extent walking and barking at things. She does not learn a bunch of new commands like some of the dogs discussed. But at the same time, she is very charismatic, she is extremely excellent at convincing people to do things for her and also influencing people generally. She does all this in a way that looks simple, but isn’t. She can figure out how to extract food from just about anyone, it seems.
At the same time, sometimes the leader argues that certain remarkable behaviors my dog does are common. Well, maybe they are, but who’s to say my dog does not do these for a remarkable reason? For example, I reflect it is reasonably impressive that my dog taught herself some words, notably “WALK” lacking ever being expressly taught them. Indeed she gets very excited when anyone says the world. I judge this to be rather impressive, even if the leader says it is common. That is because the way my dog learned these was especially impressive, in my view, agreed how small else she cares about things.
Also, the book’s discussion of the grace of dogs is a bit elliptical. I was not persuaded by a lot of the biological opinion. I reflect my dog moves in an amazingly graceful manner, and do not see how evolution requires this. I feel like the leader would look at my dog and just see a lot of biology and evolution, rather than her special personality.
Nevertheless, the leader seems heartfelt in her views, and there is information. The book design is of very quality, with a fantastic picture of a dog on the take in.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5