Alexandra Horowitz

“By standard intelligence texts, the dogs have failed at the puzzle. I believe, by contrast that they have succeeded magnificently. They have…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“Those canids such as foxes, who do not live in a social group, appear to have a much more limited range of…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“in training a dog you must reward only those behaviors you desire the dog to repeat endlessly.”

— Alexandra Horowitz

“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…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“Part of seeing what is on an ordinary block is seeing that everything visible has a history. It arrived at the spot…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“There is no such thing as "fresh air" to a dog. Air is rich: an olfactory tangle that the dog's nose will…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“Dim but happy”

— Alexandra Horowitz

“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…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“When it comes to describing our potential physical and cognitive capacities, we are individuals first, and members of the human race second.”

— Alexandra Horowitz

“For any anthropomorphism we use to describe our dogs, we can ask two questions: One, is there a natural behavior this action…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“Few celebrate a dog who jumps at people as they approach--but start with the premise that it is we who keep ourselves…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“Dogs are losing their noses. Other research has supported the odd and disturbing result that companion dogs are not only not using…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“We get distracted, have bad days, and grow sleepy; a working dog does, too. The dogs are being only human here.”

— Alexandra Horowitz

“Do not sag with exhaustion. There is no mandate; only opportunity. Our culture fosters inattention; we are all creatures of that culture.…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“Dogs also have a higher flicker-fusion rate than humans do: seventy or even eighty cycles per second. This provides an indication why…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“Even the objects in a room are not, in some sense, the same objects to another animal. A dog looking around a…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“If we want to understand the life of any animal, we need to know what things are meaningful to it. The first…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“The result of these walks on my head is tangible: they refined what I can see.”

— Alexandra Horowitz

“how we act defines who we are.”

— Alexandra Horowitz

“The other part of seeing what is on the block is appreciating how limited our own view is. We are limited by…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“For instance, it is high time we revamp the false notion that our dogs view us as their “pack.” The “pack” language—with…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“Domestication is a variation of the process of evolution, where the selector has been not just natural forces but human ones, eventually…

— Alexandra Horowitz