“Even the objects in a room are not, in some sense, the same objects to another animal. A dog looking around a room does not think he is surrounded by human things; he sees dog things. What we think an… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
“If we want to understand the life of any animal, we need to know what things are meaningful to it. The first way to discover this is to determine what the animal can perceive: what it can see, hear, smell,… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
“By standard intelligence texts, the dogs have failed at the puzzle. I believe, by contrast that they have succeeded magnificently. They have applied a… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Those canids such as foxes, who do not live in a social group, appear to have a much more limited range of things to… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
“in training a dog you must reward only those behaviors you desire the dog to repeat endlessly.” — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Wasser’s (conservation detection) dogs are young mixed-breeds from shelters because that's where dogs with excessive energy and borderline-obsessive personalities wind up. A dog with… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Part of seeing what is on an ordinary block is seeing that everything visible has a history. It arrived at the spot where you… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as "fresh air" to a dog. Air is rich: an olfactory tangle that the dog's nose will diligently unknot.” — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Thus, these two components—perception and action—largely define and circumscribe the world for every living thing. All animals have their own umwelten—their own subjective realities,… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
“When it comes to describing our potential physical and cognitive capacities, we are individuals first, and members of the human race second.” — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
“For any anthropomorphism we use to describe our dogs, we can ask two questions: One, is there a natural behavior this action might have… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Few celebrate a dog who jumps at people as they approach--but start with the premise that it is we who keep ourselves (and our… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Dogs are losing their noses. Other research has supported the odd and disturbing result that companion dogs are not only not using their smelling… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
