The Year of the Puppy Quotes

“responsive specifically to sounds from other dogs, just as we have for sounds from other humans.”
― Alexandra Horowitz, The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves

“dogs have a dedicated “voice area” in their brain: neurons that are”
― Alexandra Horowitz, The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves

“to live in our homes, don’t respect the pronouns we put on items—that’s my bed—don’t have a clue about the identities we”
― Alexandra Horowitz, The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves

“like German shepherd dogs, startle to novel and surprising objects at five or six weeks—as the V litter and Maize’s pups did. The spaniels’ breeding actually slows their rate of development generally. This time of hypersensitivity”
― Alexandra Horowitz, The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves

“bred to look more infant-like, “paedomorphic”—like Cavalier King Charles spaniels, bred to have small heads and big eyes—only begin to show fear responses at eight weeks. Dogs with longer noses and”
― Alexandra Horowitz, The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves

“pees when excitedly saying hello to their person has not outgrown the early connection between the appearance of mom and the operation of their bladder (whose contents she initially cleaned”
― Alexandra Horowitz, The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves

“stress”
― Alexandra Horowitz, The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves

“To counter this we have been playing a game developed by the trainer Kathy Sdao.”
― Alexandra Horowitz, The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves