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What do dogs know? How do they think? The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human.

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I NSIDE OF A DOG


WHAT DOGS SEE, SMELL, AND KNOW


ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ


SCRIBNER
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Copyright 2009 by Alexandra Horowitz, with illustrations by the author


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First Scribner hardcover edition September 2009


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Library of Congress Control Number: 2008045842


ISBN 978-1-4165-8340-0


ISBN 978-1-4165-8827-6 (eBook)


To the dogs


Contents


Prelude

A prefatory note on the dog, training, and owners

Calling a dog "the dog"

Training dogs

The dog and his owner


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


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


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


Mute

Out loud

Dog-eared

The opposite of mute

Whimpers, growls, squeaks, and chuckles

Woof

Body and tail

Inadvertent and intent


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


Seen by a Dog

The eyes of a child

The attention of animals

Mutual gaze

Gaze following

Attention-getting

Showing

Manipulating attention


Canine Anthropologists

Dogs' psychic powers deconstructed

Reading us

All about you


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


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...


You Had Me at Hello

Bondables

Touching animals

At hello

The dance


The bond effect


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


Notes and Sources


Acknowledgments


Index


Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.

Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

ATTRIBUTED TO GROUCHO MARX


I NSIDE OF A DOG


Prelude


First you see the head. Over the crest of the hill appears a muzzle, drooling. It is as yet not visibly attached to anything. A limb jangles into view, followed in unhasty succession by a second, third, and fourth, bearing a hundred and forty pounds of body between them. The wolfhound, three feet at his shoulder and five feet to his tail, spies the long-haired Chihuahua, half a dog high, hidden in the grasses between her owner's feet. The Chihuahua is six pounds, each of them trembling. With one languorous leap, his ears perked high, the wolfhound arrives in front of the Chihuahua. The Chihuahua looks demurely away; the wolfhound bends down to Chihuahua level and nips her side. The Chihuahua looks back at the hound, who raises his rear end up in the air, tail held high, in preparation to attack. Instead of fleeing from this apparent danger, the Chihuahua matches his pose and leaps onto the wolfhound's face, embracing his nose with her tiny paws. They begin to play.

For five minutes these dogs tumble, grab, bite, and lunge at each other. The wolfhound throws himself onto his side and the little dog responds with attacks to his face, belly, and paws. A swipe by the hound sends the Chihuahua scurrying backward, and she timidly sidesteps out of his reach. The hound barks, jumps up, and arrives back on his feet with a thud. At this, the Chihuahua races toward one of those feet and bites it, hard. They are in mid-embracethe hound with his mouth surrounding the body of the Chihuahua, the Chihuahua kicking back at the hound's facewhen an owner snaps a leash on the hound's collar and pulls him upright and away. The Chihuahua rights herself, looks after them, barks once, and trots back to her owner.

These dogs are so incommensurable with each other that they may as well be different species. The ease of play between them always puzzled me. The wolfhound bit, mouthed, and charged at the Chihuahua; yet the little dog responded not with fright but in kind. What explains their ability to play together? Why doesn't the hound see the Chihuahua as prey? Why doesn't the Chihuahua see the wolfhound as predator? The answer turns out to have nothing to do with the Chihuahua's delusion of canine grandeur or the hound's lack of predatory drive. Neither is it simply hardwired instinct taking over.

There are two ways to learn how play worksand what playing dogs are thinking, perceiving, and saying: be born as a dog, or spend a lot of time carefully observing dogs. The former was unavailable to me. Come along as I describe what I've learned by watching.

I am a dog person.

My home has always had a dog in it. My affinity for dogs began with our family dog, Aster, with his blue eyes, lopped tail, and nighttime neighborhood ramblings that often left me up late, wearing pajamas and worry, waiting for his midnight return. I long mourned the death of Heidi, a springer spaniel who ran with excitementmy childhood imagination had her tongue trailing out of the side of her mouth and her long ears blown back with the happy vigor of her runright under a car's tires on the state highway near our home. As a college student, I gazed with admiration and affection at an adopted chow mix Beckett as she stoically watched me leave for the day.

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