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Our Dogs, Ourselves
- How We Live with Dogs Now
- Narrated by: Alexandra Horowitz
- Length: 8 hrs
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- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Have you ever wondered what your dogs are thinking? What they're feeling? Now you can finally know! The answers will surprise and delight you as scientist and dog owner Alexandra Horowitz explains how our four-legged friends perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human.
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- Written by: Alexandra Horowitz
- Narrated by: Alexandra Horowitz
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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5 out of 5 stars
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A totally new appreciation of a dogs nose!
- By Julie on 2019-01-11
Written by: Alexandra Horowitz
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How Dogs Think
- What the World Looks Like to Them and Why They Act the Way They Do
- Written by: Stanley Coren PhD
- Narrated by: Bob Dio
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Best-selling author, psychologist, and world-renowned expert on dog behavior and training Dr. Stanley Coren presents the most informative, in-depth, fascinating book yet on dogs. Acclaimed for its solid scientific research and entertaining, eminently accessible style, How Dogs Think gives you the insight that you need to understand the silly, quirky, and apparently irrational behaviors that dogs demonstrate, as well as those stunning flashes of brilliance and creativity that they also can display.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Written by: Stanley Coren PhD
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On Looking
- Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
- Written by: Alexandra Horowitz
- Narrated by: Alexandra Horowitz
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
Alexandra Horowitz’s brilliant On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary - to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, "the observation of trifles". On Looking is structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, with experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. She also walks with a child and a dog to see the world as they perceive it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Written by: Alexandra Horowitz
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The Other End of the Leash
- Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs
- Written by: Patricia McConnell PhD
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 100
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Story5 out of 5 stars 99
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Written by: Patricia McConnell PhD
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- Written by: Rodney Habib, Karen Shaw Becker
- Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass, Joe Knezevich
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 33
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Like their human counterparts, dogs have been getting sicker and dying prematurely over the past few decades. Why? Scientists are beginning to understand that the chronic diseases afflicting humans - cancer, obesity, diabetes, organ degeneration, and autoimmune disorders - also beset canines. As a result, our beloved companions struggle with preventable health problems throughout much of their lives. Because dogs can’t make health and lifestyle decisions for themselves, it’s up to pet parents to make smart, science-backed choices on their behalf.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Helpful and well written
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Written by: Rodney Habib, and others
Publisher's Summary
From the number one New York Times best-selling author of Inside of a Dog, an eye-opening, informative, “entertaining, and enlightening” (BookPage) celebration of the human-canine relationship for the curious dog owner and science-lover alike.
We keep dogs and are kept by them. We love dogs and (we assume) we are loved by them. We buy them sweaters, toys, shoes; we are concerned with their social lives, their food, and their health. The story of humans and dogs is thousands of years old but is far from understood. In Our Dogs, Ourselves, Alexandra Horowitz explores all aspects of this unique and complex relationship that “dog lovers will savor and absorb” (Shelf Awareness). As Horowitz considers the current culture of dogdom, she reveals the odd, surprising, and contradictory ways we live with dogs. We celebrate their individuality but breed them for sameness. Despite our deep emotional relationships with dogs, legally they are property to be bought, sold, abandoned, or euthanized as we wish. Even the way we speak to our dogs is at once perplexing and delightful.
In 13 thoughtful and charming chapters, Our Dogs, Ourselves affirms our profound affection for this most charismatic of animals — and makes us “see canine companions in new ways” (Science News).
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
- Robyn
- 2020-11-09
Disappointed
Spent almost 22 minutes of the author just naming off dog names, feel like its trying to fill time on pointless examples rather than using one example and getting to the valuable information. Very disappointed that I couldnt get through the book out of annoyance because there is good information.
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- bob
- 2019-12-11
fantastic
a great book as always can't expect much less from Horowitz. 11/10 would recommend and read again
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-10-07
All around awesome and honest.
Author reads as well as she writes. Splendidly. The content is thought provoking, sometimes uncomfortably so.
5 people found this helpful
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Ileen Green, CPDT-KA
- 2020-09-16
Understanding your dog & others.
I love books well written by “Positive Reinforcement Trainers” ..
No need to buy into the “Alpha Theory”..
There is no need for us to be the boss & intimidate our new family member..
Our dogs are “wonderful additions-like children”..
Our dogs mature faster, do not need a college fund, love us unconditionally & work for chicken!,
Ileen Green, CPDT-KA
2 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 2020-09-05
Scientific and thought provoking
I have a really hard time being captured by audiobooks but Horowitz's writing and wit was always able to capture me the instant she started speaking. I recommend this book to any dog lover, especially if you are interested in animal welfare.
2 people found this helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- Trebla
- 2019-09-17
Not much about dogs, it's about people.
Many, many stylish words to tell us dog people about dog people. I learned zero about dogs, which is what I'd expect from a dog scientist.
2 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Judith F. Mazo
- 2022-12-24
Moving analysis of dog-human bond
Like other books by Alexandra Horowitz, this book provides interesting, valuable insights into dogs and their relationships with us. However, it left me feeling a little depressed and guilty that I don’t give my dog as much stimulation and dignity as Horowitz prescribes. I don’t know if it’s possible to do so if you’re over 50 and don’t have children around to interact with the dog constantly. My dog seems pretty content and she surely displays a lot of love for us, and we do a lot for her, but would Horowitz think it’s enough?
1 person found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Laurie Thomson
- 2020-04-06
whatever
I didn't finish the book because it's all statistics and world science or something I kept thinking today somehow I eat listening to s different program all the sudden. it's really hardly anything about a dog, living with dogs or anything. it's like how many dogs does China eat, and shopping for toys and collars and leashes and crap I don't want to know that stuff that's not what I wanted the book for its not what they sample sounded like. I didn't like it
1 person found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Birdie's mom
- 2020-02-18
great dog/ animal book
very good and made me think in a new direction. we really came believe everything we think. I will recommend it.
1 person found this helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-05-31
Disappointed
I have read almost every book from this author and have loved her work and was excited when I found one by her I haven’t read. Sadly as much as I love hearing her talk about the animal I was ver disappointed to hear her talk about policy. I could see people using her work as justification to get rid of pet ownership and she sounds like she would support this. Whole chapters spent strawmanning and villainizing whole industries and thinks everyone should just adopt a 35lb village dog and be happy. She makes clear trough the book that she is a New York City ivory Tower
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- Nicole K.
- 2023-02-17
Brilliant book, loved listening
This book is truly a masterpiece and should be read by every dog owner. It is eye-opening, intriguing, provoking, self reflecting, sometimes funny, and a lot of times sad. This book summarizes everything that is wrong in the modern dog world.
As an R+ trainer, I really appreciated the scientific insights and brutal honesty.
Thank you, Alexandra Horowitz, for all the work you do! Im sure every dog out there would feel the same.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Dr. J
- 2022-10-23
Research
Found it to be quite boring!
Too much data reporting! It was tedious listening to names of dogs. Was expecting more on the nature of dogs.