Alexandra Horowitz's runaway bestseller Inside of a Dog began a
movement among dog owners to not just quietly accept and enjoy the
presence of the pooch at their sides, but to wonder at that dog,
and let him show us how he sees the world, and what he knows. What
the dog sees and knows comes mostly through his nose, and the
information that every dog has about the world based on smell is
unthinkably rich. It is rich in a way we humans once knew something
about, once even acted on, but have since neglected. By smelling,
tapping into this sensory resource that we have but that we largely
ignore, the dog has become an informant. To a dog, there is no such
thing as 'fresh air.' Every gulp of air is full of information. In
Being a Dog, Horowitz, a research scientist in the field of dog
cognition, explores what the nose knows as never done before by
taking an imaginative leap into what it is like to be a dog. Under
the tutelage of her family dogs, Finnegan and Upton, Horowitz sets
off on a quest to make sense of scents, combining a personal
journey of smelling with a tour through the cutting edge and
improbable science behind the olfactory abilities of the dog. From
revealing the spectacular biology of the dog nose, to following a
tracking dog being put through his paces and trying herself to
become a better smeller, Horowitz covers the topic of noses - both
canine and human - from surprising, novel, and always fascinating
angles. As we come to understand how rich, complex, and exciting
the world around us appears to the canine nose, Horowitz changes
our perspective on dogs forever. Readers will finish this book
feeling that they have glimpsed or sensed or smelled into the
fourth dimension, literally breaking free of their human
constraints and understanding smell as never before; that they
have, for however fleetingly, been a dog.
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