Best-selling author, researcher and professor Alexandra Horowitz sees a lot of contradiction in how we live with dogs. She talks with Claudia Kawczynska following the publishing of her third book, Our Dogs, Ourselves < link >.
Source: Bark, October 2019. Link.
Humans who accompany dogs have never been my focus, but . . . I’ve studied whether our anthropomorphisms are true. I’ve seen how important it is to think about the human side of the bond if we want to not only understand but also, to improve the lives of dogs.
INSIGHTS: Horowitz is senior research fellow and director of the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she teaches seminars in canine cognition and creative nonfiction.