Mass Guild February 2019

This month's selection past times the majority social club is a favourite close dogs that "...causes one's dog-loving pump to flutter alongside astonishment too gratitude..." according to the New York Times.

By Zazie Todd, PhD

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This calendar month the Book Club is reading the best-selling Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, too Know past times Alexandra Horowitz.

From the cover,

"The answers volition surprise too please you lot equally Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, too that other quirky animal, the human. Horowitz introduces the reader to dogs’ perceptual too cognitive abilities too thus draws a painting demo of what it mightiness last similar to last a dog. What’s it similar to last able to scent non only every fighting of opened upward nutrient inward the menage but likewise to scent sadness inward humans, or fifty-fifty the passage of time? How does a tiny Canis familiaris produce out to play successfully alongside a Great Dane? What is it similar to need heed the bodily racket of insects or the hum of a fluorescent light? Why must a someone on a wheel last chased? What’s it similar to purpose your oral fissure equally a hand? In short, what is it similar for a Canis familiaris to sense life from ii feet off the ground, amidst the smells of the sidewalk, gazing at our ankles or knees? 

Inside of a Dog explains these things too much more. The answers tin last surprising—once nosotros fix aside our natural inclination to anthropomorphize dogs. Inside of a Dog likewise contains up-to-the-minute research—on dogs’ detection of disease, the secrets of their tails, too their science at reading our attention—that Horowitz puts into useful context."

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Zazie Todd, PhD, is the writer of Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy. She is the founder of the pop weblog , where she writes close everything from preparation methods to the human-canine relationship. She likewise writes a column for Psychology Today too has received the prestigious Captain Haggerty Award for Best Training Article inward 2017. Todd lives inward Maple Ridge, BC, alongside her husband, i dog, too ii cats.

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