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“What Mr. Rogers was to children,;Alexandra Horowitz;is to dogs: a wise and patient observer who seeks to intimately What is it like to be a puppy? Author of the classic Few of us meet our dogs at Day One. The dog who will, eventually, become an integral part of our family, our constant companion and best friend, is born without us into a family of her own. A puppy''s critical early development into the dog we come to know is usually missed entirely. Dog researcher Alexandra Horowitz aimed to change that with her family''s new pup, Quiddity (Quid). In this scientific memoir, she charts Quid''s growth from wee grub to boisterous sprite, from her birth to her first birthday. Horowitz follows Quid''s first weeks with her mother and ten roly-poly littermates, and then each week after the puppy joins her household of three humans, two large dogs, and a wary cat. She documents the social and cognitive milestones that so many of us miss in our puppies'' lives, when caught up in the housetraining and behavioral training that easily overwhelms the first months of a dog''s life with a new family. In focusing on training a dog to behave, we mostly miss the radical development of a puppy into By slowing down to observe Quid from week to week,
About the author
Alexandra Horowitz observes dogs for a living. Her research began more than two decades ago, studying dogs at play, and continues today at her Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College. She is the author of Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know and three other books: On Looking; Being a Dog; and Our Dogs, Ourselves. She lives with her family of Homo sapiens, Canis familiaris, and Felis catus in New York City.
