Inside of a Dog

What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

By: Alexandra Horowitz

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's Summary

From an animal behaviorist and dog enthusiast comes an adorable and informative guide to understanding how our canine friends see the world based on the number-one New York Times best-selling phenomenon Inside of a Dog - now adapted for a younger audience!

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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©2009 Alexandra Horowitz (P)2009 Simon & Schuster

A great insight to a dog 's life

A must read for every dog owner . you will never look at your dog the same way again

Thought provoking, beautiful language

Love the scientific angle author uses to support the points she makes but also the evocative and loving description of her own dog. Really enjoyed this audiobook. Definitely changes the way one will look at a dog going forward!

Pleasant but uninformative

Nothing surprising or insightful but a pleasant read. I was expecting more but this is pretty standard.

not very informative

This book didn't have much to offer. I expected to learn more about dog psychology but little in it was really all that new. the book read more like a memorial to the author's dog than anything of major importance. also the narrator sounded like siri, which made the experience worse.

Never used five words when two hundred would do

I'm sure there's good information buried here. I might actually like the print version where I could skip the author's rambling, personal side notes and disclaimers. I felt like I was listening to a warning label on medication. To be honest, I never made it past chapter two. By then I had learned that the author had lost a dog because it had gotten out in traffic. Yep that was it and I don't mean I had learned nothing new. That one line sums up the first two chapters. With a good editor, it might become a very good ninty minute book, I'll never know.

very clinical with robotic narration

I struggled thru this book and I loooooove all dog books.
Not this one!!!

great info

I loved the book. although a little overwhelming with the science sometimes, there was tons of great info and I look at my dog differently Anna written more understanding now.

Couldn't even finish it

This seemed like one woman's experience with her dog and she extrapolates it to every dog out there. All dogs are different, just like each person is different. I got about 2 chapters in and had to stop. So bad.

amateur work and ideologically deceptive

A he/she/it pronoun preaching about dogs? this book is suppose to be about dogs, not politics!
Numerous authors noted instead of revising and correcting with a new copy? How lazy!
Zero statistical data cited for personal opinions?
How arrogant!
multiple cases about other animals instead of only dogs? I didn't know zoo was in the title!
Dogs arent heroic? shut your whore mouth!

mutts have more latent abilities?
breeds wont always have breed skills and traits?
if generalization won prizes, I'd give this the Nobel medal for it.

This was not worth my time, nor the time of any serious dog owner. These are the writings of someone capitalizing on the ignorance of non-dog owners with the writers emotional works and personal experiences.

yes this review should be hurtful, as I was misled into expecting an actual scientific analysis on dogs, not a creative writing comparison of dogs and other animals.

mic drop.

Encyclopedia quality

This book was very poorly marketed on Audible when they described it as being anything other than a scientific manual. I am a lifelong dog lover/owner and consider it almost a sin to leave a book unfinished but I cannot make my way through this one. It is written - and narrated - like an article in a scientific journal, which may be factual and informative to someone interested in that level of detail but in my opinion the occasional bits of info about her dog do not lighten or entertain enough to balance out the rest.

It is written in extremely formal style (I’ve heard no contractions, for example) and the narrator annunciates each and every consonant quite crisply with a pause between each word such that it sounds almost robotic. A paragraph may begin with a description of an “anthropomorphism” (this word gets used more than ‘dog’ I think) and then we hear on and on many examples of why and how this may be a mistake and then perhaps a comment or two about “the dog”. In the midst of one of these we were suddenly going on and on about how the tick looks at life. Now I know that ticks are born without sex organs but that is not what I bought this book to learn.

A fascinating and balanced portrayal of the dog

Very enjoyable. Great science based listen for anyone even remotely interested in dogs. The science is portrayed in a highly accessible way, the writing is interesting, and all is enhanced by the narrator's performance. I particularly enjoyed the fact that the author doesn't just present and focus on the dry scientific facts, but also allows for the emotional consideration of the human-dog bond. I think it's a very good, balanced book.

A must for dog owners

What did you like most about Inside of a Dog?

This is an extremely interesting audio book. Really well narrated. It was surprisingly engaging and informative and promised to get me looking at my dogs differently. It succeeded in this. The book is intentionally quite amusing in places.

Any additional comments?

Any dog owner would benefit from this. It will help you get some understanding of why your dog behaves the way it does and give you some idea about how to influence it. It is not a training guide though

brilliant

I used this book to help with my understanding of dogs loved it . had to listen and listen and listen. couldn't stop .

great book, bad narrator.

I have tead the book before. So I decided to get a copy on tape too. I don't think I'll be able to listen to much of it, the narrator is terrible. Sounds like an electronic voice on the old school text to speech functions on Mac computers. Not enjoyable to listen too at all.

Insightful read

I'm yet to find a book that so perfectly mirrors how I feel about our canine companions.

I would recommend this read for anybody, in fact I would insist!

You’ll smile as you agree and notice more about your dog

Spoken well. Easy to listen to. Perfect mix of info and author relating her own experience with her dog. Would recommend for all dog lovers.

Informative and talkative

Insightful and interesting about dogs. However, not very to the point. Reviews of research on other animals could have been much more succinct.

Worst narration experience on Audible

Decent story but narration is insupportable, sounds like bad AI. Pity, since.title and summary looked intriguing.

Too much comparisons between dogs and wolves

Some good parts but the fact that dogs are not wolves made a lot of this book unbearable to listen to and made it difficult to distinguish whether or not the rest of the information in the book was based on fallacies too.