For my second reading response I am going to be talking about “Inside of a Dog, What Dogs See, Smell, and Know” written by Alexandra Horowitz. I found this article to be the most fascinating of them all so far this term. Learning about this particular species was incredibly interesting and caused me to gain more respect for dogs, including my own. I found it amazing that dogs pay attention compared to humans. I believed dogs would try to understand concepts more, but after reading this article I was proven wrong. For example when Horowitz talks about what a rose is to humans and to how it is different to dogs fascinated me. I always believed that dogs sniffed this object for the wonderful smell, not for the stench of urine. I believed that humans pay more attention to objects and capture all the details, and to the dog species, they simply see it as a boring object that has nothing special attached to it. Yet I was proven wrong because dogs see more of the world compared to society with their advanced vision. Another concept I found interesting was how a hammer can have so much importance to society as a tool, yet to an animal it is seen as a chew toy or just an object simply laying there sharing no importance to the world. Overall I found this article extremely interesting and now that I have finished reading this I have gained more respect for my dog. Knowing how they are more aware compared to humans even though it may not seem like it causes me to give more respect for the dog species overall.
Noelle M.
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Noelle:
ReplyDeleteI was thinking back to the Buffalo Gals story when they encountered 'human' settlements and saw them as a grey haze. How does the dog experience the hammer? Something not to trip over, perhaps to chew on, maybe to pee on. But does the dog's vision and brain process and think about it in any way similar to the way we do? Maybe it would be similar to how a toddler would experience the hammer... no functional, cultural, historical relevance because the dog doesn't have it unless it is trained to attach meaning to it.
I remember standing in a moonlit field one night in North Carolina and having a pair of rabbits emerge from the bushes and start playing... chasing one another back and forth. One of them literally ran across my feet. I was in plain view, but since I didn't move they clearly did not distinguish me from the trees and bushes.