The World According To Your Puppy

An affectionate study of a dog’s first year of life

- Alexandra Horowitz

“It’s a popular idea, puppies,” writes Alexandra Horowitz. A specialist in dog cognition, she did not really need to admit another animal into her full household. But in the interest of science, during the pandemic, she did. The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves, is a charming and absorbing study of that first all-important year that runs from infancy to teenagerhood.

We tend to view puppies from the outside, caught up in house-training, walk-training, bite-training and so on, but this is not an instruction manual for humans. It is firmly from the pup’s point of view, how they learn to see and smell, interact, and make sense of the world.