A review by mary_k_nyc
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz

2.0

I’d heard two of author’s interviews on different NPR shows, and as a first-time dog mom I was very intrigued to learn as much about my dog's behavior and physiology as I could from her. Unfortunately, I finally threw in the towel before finishing the book after four months of muddling through it because Horowitz's writing style does not flow, there are weird footnotes everywhere, and even though she’s a dog researcher somehow I felt like the baseline was her dog Pumpernickel than presumably the 100s of dogs whose behavior she’s studied. I get that it's hard to know about a species that can't talk to us, but after reading about 2/3 of it all I can say I learned is that dogs’ vision, smell, and hearing are different from ours. And I'd learned that much from 30 minutes of Freakonomics, so I'd suggest skipping the book and going with that.