Readers will finish this book feeling that they have broken free of their human constraints and understanding smell as never before that they have, for however fleetingly, been a dog. In addition to speaking to cognitive researchers and smell experts, Horowitz visits detection-dog trainers and training centers she meets researchers working with dogs to detect cancerous cells and anticipate epileptic seizure or diabetic shock and she even attempts to smell-train her own nose.Īs we come to understand how rich, complex, and exciting the world around us is to the canine nose, Horowitz changes our perspective on dogs forever. ![]() Guided by her own dogs, Finnegan and Upton, Horowitz sets off on a quest through the cutting-edge science behind the olfactory abilities of the dog. In her “fascinating book…Horowitz combines the expertise of a scientist with an easy, lively writing style” ( The New York Times Book Review) as she imagines what it is like to be a dog. From the #1 bestselling author of Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy-“an incredible journey into the olfactory world of man’s best friend” ( O, The Oprah Magazine), Alexandra Horowitz’s follow-up to her New York Times bestseller explains how dogs experience the world through their most spectacular organ-the nose.
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