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The year of the puppy : how dogs become themselves / Alexandra Horowitz.

Summary:
"What is it like to be a puppy? Author of the classic Inside of a Dog, Alexandra Horowitz tries to find out, spending a year scrutinizing her puppy's daily existence, and poring over the science of early dog development. Few of us meet our dogs at Day One. The dog who will, eventually, become an integral part of our family, our constant companion and best friend, is born without us into a family of her own. A puppy's critical early development into the dog we come to know is usually missed entirely. Dog researcher Alexandra Horowitz aimed to change that with her family's new pup, Quiddity (Quid). In this scientific memoir she charts Quid's growth from wee grub to boisterous sprite, from her birth to her first birthday. Horowitz follows Quid's first weeks with her mother and ten roly-poly littermates, and then each week after the puppy joins her household of three humans, two large dogs, and a wary cat. She documents the social and cognitive milestones that so many of us miss in our puppies' lives, when caught up in the housetraining and behavioral training that easily overwhelms the first months of a dog's life with a new family. In focusing on training a dog to behave, we mostly miss the radical development of a puppy into themselves -through the equivalent of infancy, childhood, young adolescence, and teenagehood. By slowing down to observe Quid from week to week, The Year of the Puppy makes new sense of a dog's behavior in a way that is missed in a focus only on training. Horowitz keeps a lens on the puppy's point of view-how they (begin to) see and smell the world, make meaning of it, and become an individual personality. She's there when the puppies first open their eyes, first start to recognize each other and learn about cats, sheep, and people; she sees them from their first play bows to puberty. Horowitz also draws from the ample research in the fields of dog and human development to draw analogies between a dog's first year and the growing child -- and to note where they diverge. The Year of the Puppy is indispensable for anyone navigating their way through the frustrating, amusing, and ultimately delightful first year of a puppy's life"-- Provided by publisher

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593298008
  • ISBN: 0593298004
  • Physical Description: 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part 0: gestation -- Part 1: a pup is born. Week 0: dear God, that's a lot of puppies -- Week 1: sweet potatoes -- Week 2: young blue eyes -- Week 3: the week of poop -- Week 4: professional wag -- Week 5: mouths with tails -- Week 6: little bruisers -- Week 7: adventure pups -- Week 8: your choice of models -- Week 9: calm before the storm -- Part 2: second birth -- Arrival of the storm -- (Im)perfect puppy -- Ghosts -- Puppy's point of view -- In and up -- The troubles -- To sleep, perchance -- Part 3: Quid years. Longing -- Gale force ten -- Seeing us -- The thing about sleds -- Face-first -- Lick, memory -- Postscript.
Subject: Dogs.
Puppies.
Puppies > Growth.

Available copies

  • 16 of 16 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 16 total copies.
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Abington Community Library 636.7 HOROWIT (Text) 50687011801118 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library 636.7 HOROWIT (Text) 50686016222692 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library 636.7 HOR (Text) 37268003154655 AHMFL Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Degenstein Community Library NF 636.7 HOROWITZ (Text) 35031301244440 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) 636.7 HOR (Text) 91083561 GFWM Main Room Available -
Indian Valley Public Library 636.7 Horowitz Pets (Text) 39427103676524 Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction Available -
Lower Macungie Library 636.707 HOR (Text) 33400001569451 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Martin Library Adults 636.7 HOR Home (Text) 33454005899745 2nd Floor Available -
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity 636.7 HOR 2022 (Text) 31001101865054 Adult Non Fiction Available -
New Oxford Library 636.707 HOROWITZ (Text)
Endowment: Muriel Rice Named Endowment, 2022
35740635882483 Nonfiction Available -


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