From an animal behaviorist and dog enthusiast comes an adorable, “engaging, and comprehensive” ( School Library Journal ) guide to understanding how our canine friends see the world based on the #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon, Inside of a Dog —now adapted for a younger audience! Want to know what dogs are thinking? What they feel, and what they can spell with that great big nose of theirs? Here’s your chance to experience the world nose first, from two feet off the ground. What do dogs know, and how do they think? The answers will surprise and delight you as dog owner and scientist Alexandra Horowitz explains how our four-legged friends perceive their daily worlds, each other, and us! This book is as close as you can get to knowing about dogs without being a dog yourself. "Clearly and confidently written, engaging, and comprehensive, this title will delight dog lovers and budding scientists." ― School Library Journal "Readers, especially those with dogs, will find the information fascinating . . . This exploration of what makes dogs behave as they do is comprehensive and interesting." ― Kirkus Reviews "[Horowitz] offers commonsense advice in understanding pooches." ― Booklist PRAISE FOR INSIDE OF A DOG ADULT EDITION "Discover why your dog is so sensitive to your emotions, gaze, and body language. Dogs live in a world of ever-changing intricate detail of smell. Read this captivating book and enter the sensory world of your dog." -- Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us Human "Inside of a Dog is a most welcome authoritative, personal, and witty book about what it is like to be a dog. This engaging volume serves as a corrective to the many myths that circulate about just who our canine companions are." -- Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals and Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals (with Jessica Pierce) "Invites readers to learn more than they’ve ever dreamed about the canine species." ― School Library Connection Alexandra Horowitz is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know ; On Looking: A Walker’s Guide to the Art of Observation ; Being a Dog: Following the Dog into a World of Smell ; Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond ; and The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves . She teaches at Barnard College, where she runs the Dog Cognition Lab. She lives with her family of Homo sapiens , Canis familiaris , and Felis catus in New York City. Sean Vidal Edgerton studied Plant Sciences and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz and then went on to complete a graduate program in Science Illustration at CSU Monterey Bay. Since then he’s worked as wildlife illustrator in Madagascar, entomological illustrator at the Smithsonian, and now botanical illustrator at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. His work is driven by his passion to blend the worlds of art and science. His portfolio focuses on the beauty of natural history, biodiversity, and organisms poorly understood and in dire need of our conservation efforts. Inside of a Dog -- Young Readers Edition FROM THE DOG’S POINT OF NOSE This morning I am woken up by Pump coming over to the bed and sniffing at me. Her nose is millimeters from my face, her whiskers grazing my lips. She suddenly sneezes explosively, an exclamation point on her greeting. I open my eyes and she is gazing at me, smiling, panting a hello. Go look at a dog. Go on, look—maybe at one lying near you right now, curled around his folded legs on a dog bed, or sprawled on his side on the floor. Take a good look. And now forget everything you know about this or any other dog. Okay, I admit it—you can’t really forget all that you know. I don’t expect you to forget your dog’s name or his favorite food. But humor me and try. We are going to be looking at dogs through the lens of science, and science asks us to set aside what we think we already know and focus instead on what we can prove. It will turn out that some of what we thought all along about our dogs is true, and other things that appear obvious are more doubtful than anyone knew. And when we try looking from a new point of view—from the point of view of dogs themselves—new ideas may arise in our minds. So the best way to begin understanding dogs is by forgetting what we think we already know. The first thing to do is to stop thinking of your dog as if he is a human being. It’s easy to make this mistake. We think about our dogs as if they are people, because being people is something that we easily understand. Of course, we say, dogs love and long for things; of course they dream and think. We believe dogs know and understand us, feel bored, get jealous, and get depressed. We believe our dogs do all these things because we do all these things. But we’ll come to a better understanding of dogs if we start with what dogs—not people—can actua