Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz

Author:Alexandra Horowitz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3, pdf
Tags: Life Sciences, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Science, Dogs - Psychology, General, Pets, Zoology, Dogs, Breeds
ISBN: 9781416583400
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-09-15T10:00:00+00:00

Dogs' easy mastery of new procedures and concepts presumably stops prior to grasping what a quark is. What they learn is neither academic nor scholastic. Still, most of what we ask that dogs learn can only be described as capricious and arbitrary. Surely any animal recently wild will learn how to get its mouth on food. But typically the things we want dogs to learn—to obey—bear little connection to food. We ask dogs to change posture (to sit, jump up, stand up, lie down, roll over), to act in a very specific way on an object (get my shoes, get off the bed), to start or stop a current action (wait, no, okay), to change mood (cool it, go get him!), to move toward us or move away from us (come, go away, stay). This may not be quantum mechanics, but it is just as bizarre to these distant moose hunters. Nothing in a wild animal's life prepares him to be asked to maintain the state of holding his rump on the ground, unmoving, until released by your cheery okay! It is notable that dogs can learn these seemingly arbitrary things at all.

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