Book description
Alexandra Horowitz's runaway bestseller Inside of a Dog began a movement among dog owners to not just quietly accept and enjoy the presence of the pooch at their sides, but to wonder at that dog, and let him show us how he sees the world, and what he knows.
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I like to daydream about how my olfactory perspectives would change in different scenarios such as being one of the borrowers or colossus. This provides by far the most exhaustive and fun to read introduction to canine olfaction that provides so much fodder for my olfactory flights of fancy.
It is hard not to get caught up in thought experiments about what it must be like to have such a fantastically adept nose, how cool it would be to engage in overt social chemosignal behavioral exchanges, and at times even to wonder if we are odorifically missing out by not…
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