What the World Looks Like Through the (Adorable Little) Eyes of a Puppy

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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When Alexandra Horowitz brought home a pandemic puppy it was clear little Quiddity would be very closely watched. Horowitz is founder of Barnard’s Dog Cognition Lab and her previous books explored questions of how dogs experience the world. In her new book, “The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves” she follows her puppy from his very beginnings as “a mewling splodge of fur,” through his first year. We talk to Horowitz about what she learned and why puppies are cognitively interesting as well as being the cutest little balls of fluff, and how those two things might be related. Guests: Alexandra Horowitz, author, "The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves;" founder, the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.6	There is nothing quite like a puppy is there. I've got mine
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1:02.8	there is more to puppydom than just holding a squirming furry dumpling in your arms. They're
1:08.8	their own beings. And our guest today, Alexander Horowitz,
1:12.3	is the founder of the dog cognition lab at Barnard.
1:15.4	And she has a new book out,
1:16.7	The Year of the Puppy,
1:18.2	How Dogs Become Themselves.
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