In focusing on training a dog to behave, we mostly miss the radical development of a puppy into themselves-through the equivalent of infancy, childhood, young adolescence, and teenager-hood.īy slowing down to observe Quid from week to week, The Year of the Puppy makes new sense of a dog's behavior in a way that is missed when the focus is only on training. 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. 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. In this scientific memoir, she charts Quid's growth from wee grub to boisterous sprite, from her birth to her first birthday. Dog researcher Alexandra Horowitz aimed to change that with her family's new pup, Quiddity (Quid). A puppy's critical early development into the dog we come to know is usually missed entirely. 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. What is it like to be a puppy? Author of the classic Inside of a Dog, Alexandra Horowitz tries to find out, spending a year scrutinizing her puppy’s daily existence and poring over the science of early dog developmentįew of us meet our dogs at Day One.
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