Inside of a Dog
What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 2009
368 pages
978-1-4165-8827-6 (ISBN)
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Alexandra Horowitz offers readers a fresh look at the world of dogs--from the dog's point of view.
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Alexandra Horowitz is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know; On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation; Being a Dog: Following the Dog into a World of Smell; Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond; and The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves. She teaches at Barnard College, where she runs the Dog Cognition Lab. She lives with her family of Homo sapiens, Canis familiaris, and Felis catus in New York City.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Chapter 1: Prelude
- A prefatory note on the dog, training, and owners
- Calling a dog "the dog"
- Training dogs
- The dog and his owner
- Chapter 2: Umwelt: From the Dog's Point of Nose
- Take my raincoat. Please.
- A tick's view of the world
- Putting our umwelt caps on
- The meaning of things
- Asking dogs
- Dog kisses
- Dogologist
- Chapter 3: Belonging to the House
- How to make a dog: Step-by-step instructions
- How wolves became dogs
- Unwolfy
- And then our eyes met . . .
- Fancy dogs
- The one difference between breeds
- Animals with an asterisk
- Canis unfamiliaris
- Making your dog
- Chapter 4: Sniff
- Sniffers
- The nose nose
- The vomeronasal nose
- The brave smell of a stone
- The smelly ape
- You showed fear
- The smell of disease
- The smell of a dog
- Leaves and grass
- Brambish and brunky
- Chapter 5: Mute
- Out loud
- Dog-eared
- The opposite of mute
- Whimpers, growls, squeaks, and chuckles
- Woof
- Body and tail
- Inadvertent and intent
- Chapter 6: Dog-eyed
- Eyes of the ball-holder
- Go get the ball!
- Go get the green ball!
- Go get the green bouncing ball . . . on the TV!
- Visual umwelt
- Chapter 7: Seen by a Dog
- The eyes of a child
- The attention of animals
- Mutual gaze
- Gaze following
- Attention-getting
- Showing
- Manipulating attention
- Chapter 8: Canine Anthropologists
- Dogs' psychic powers deconstructed
- Reading us
- All about you
- Chapter 9: Noble Mind
- Dog smarts
- Learning from others
- Puppy see, puppy do
- More human than bird
- Theory of mind
- Theory of dog mind
- Playing into mind
- What happened to the Chihuahua
- Non-human
- Chapter 10: Inside of a Dog
- I. What a dog knows
- Dog days (About time)
- The inner dog (About themselves)
- Dog years (About their past and future)
- Good dog (About right and wrong)
- A dog's age (About emergencies and death)
- II. What it is like
- It is close to the ground . . .
- . . . It is lickable . . .
- . . . It either fits in the mouth or it's too big for the mouth . . .
- . . . It is full of details . . .
- . . . It is in the moment . . .
- . . . It is fleeting and fast . . .
- . . . It is written all over their faces . . .
- Chapter 11: You Had Me at Hello
- Bondables
- Touching animals
- At hello
- The dance
- The bond effect
- Chapter 12: The Importance of Mornings
- Go for a "smell walk"
- Train thoughtfully
- Allow for his dogness
- Consider the source
- Give him something to do
- Play with him
- Look again
- Spy on him
- Don't bathe your dog every day
- Read the dog's tells
- Pet friendly
- Get a mutt
- Anthropomorphize with umwelt in mind
- Postscript: Me and My Dog
- Acknowledgments
- Author Interview
- 'Our Dogs, Ourselves' Teaser
- About Alexandra Horowitz
- Notes and Sources
- Index
- Copyright
