In thirteen thoughtful and charming chapters, Our Dogs, Ourselves affirms our profound affection for this most charismatic of animals-and opens our eyes to the companions at our sides as never before. Even the way we speak to our dogs is at once perplexing and delightful. Despite our deep emotional relationships with dogs, legally they are property to be bought, sold, abandoned, or euthanized as we wish. We celebrate their individuality but breed them for sameness. As Horowitz considers the current culture of dogdom, she reveals the odd, surprising, and contradictory ways we live with dogs.
In Our Dogs, Ourselves, Alexandra Horowitz explores all aspects of this unique and complex interspecies pairing. The story of humans and dogs is thousands of years old but is far from understood. We buy them sweaters, toys, shoes we are concerned with their social lives, their food, and their health.
We love dogs and (we assume) we are loved by them. How is it possible we can treat the same species in these two totally different ways? In Our Dogs, Ourselves Young Readers Edition, bestselling author of Inside of a Dog, Alexandra Horowitz reveals the odd, surprising, and contradictory ways we live with dogs.From Alexandra Horowitz, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog, an eye-opening, informative, and wholly entertaining examination and celebration of the human-canine relationship for the curious dog owner and science-lover alike. Many dogs have no homes, or live out their life in shelters. Despite our deep emotional relationships.
Purebreeding dogs has led to many unhealthy pups. In Our Dogs, Ourselves, Alexandra Horowitz explores all aspects of this unique and complex interspecies pairing. But we also shape our dogs into something they aren’t meant to be. 'In Our Dogs, Ourselves, Alexandra Horowitz has achieved the rare and admirable feat of combining hard scientific information with a storyteller's gift of detail and depth, a gossip columnist's gift for eavesdropping, and a philosopher's work of making us face the difficult aspects of our love of dogs-all the time re-enforcing the rightness of.
On the one hand, we let them into our beds, we give them meaningful names, make them members of our family, and buy them the best food, toys, accessories, clothes, and more. Even while we see ourselves in dogs, we also treat them in surprising ways. We love dogs and (we assume) we are loved by them. In Our Dogs, Ourselves, Alexandra Horowitz explores all aspects of this unique and complex relationship that dog lovers will savor and absorb (Shelf. This middle grade adaptation of Our Dogs, Ourselves is an eye-opening, entertaining, and beautifully illustrated look about humans’ complicated and sometimes contradictory relationship with man’s best friend by New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog-Young Readers Edition.
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