5/22/2023 0 Comments Being a dog horowitz![]() ![]() It is this empathic connection that attracts humans to domestic cats (600 million worldwide) and dogs (500 million) rather than iguanas or fish.īut we also know the differences, which range from sociality - descended from pack hunters, dogs are far more gregarious and cooperative than cats - to the senses, with canines relying more on olfaction and felines more on vision. Mammals recognize our emotions, and we recognize theirs. They are also both mammals, which helps them relate to us. They are both predators eager to chase and grab moving objects, which is why they potentially get along so well. They could go at it for hours until they’d plop down, exhausted.ĭogs and cats have more in common than people assume. They would race up and down the stairs of a large student house, surprising each other at every turn their obvious joy was highly contagious. The two of them had played together since they were little, and kept doing so now that they were adult. About once a month, I would take Plexie on my bicycle (I lived in the Netherlands) in a bag with her little head sticking out, to go on a play date with her best friend, a short-legged puppy. ![]() $26.Īs a college student, I had a black-and-white kitty named Plexie. THE LION IN THE LIVING ROOM How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World By Abigail Tucker 241 pp. BEING A DOG Following the Dog Into a World of Smell By Alexandra Horowitz 323 pp. ![]()
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