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dog-thoughts full-time. I was even more pleased that I would be handing the book over to the people at Scribner, whom I could count on to make my bagful of chapters into an actual book. I am indebted to Colin Harrison for his tireless reading of drafts and for being open to just about anything. Had I turned a book about dogs into one about cats I suspect Colin would have acceded to it … as long as it was still a good read. Many thanks to Susan Moldow for her enthusiasm from the very beginning.

Before I had an agent I scanned acknowledgments pages for those that included words that would send me scurrying to shine up a proposal to their agents. Sorry, Kris Dahl, in advance, for this: she is the very person you want representing you and your book; and I thank her.

My graduate school advisors and mentors, Shirley Strum and Jeff Elman, were willing to consider how an abstruse theoretical question about cognition could be addressed by observations of dogs—and they improved the theory and the practice. I was and am still appreciative. Thanks to Aaron Cicourel, who is also, as he says, one of those folks who try to saw through wood the hard way. Marc Bekoff was one of the first to treat dog play as biologically interesting. It was his writing (with the very keen Colin Allen), and later his advice, devotion, and friendship that led me to pursue my own research.

I owe thanks to Damon Horowitz, with whom I hatched the plan to write this book, and who seemed to believe that it was a sage and realistic idea. His consummate skepticism about all matters is balanced by his unfettered support of all that matters to me. I owe pretty much everything to my parents, Elizabeth and Jay. They were the first people I wanted to show the book to, for all the right reasons. As

for you, Ammon Shea: you make me better with words, you make me better with dogs, and you make me better.

Index

abstraction, 253–54

adaptation, 31–32, 70–71

addictive behavior, 53–54

adoption of dogs, 47, 65, 262n, 266–67, 294, 301

adrenaline, 80

affection, dog kisses and, 29–31

Afghan hound, 49, 127

age

in dog years, 222n

hearing decline with, 93n

knowledge of death, 235–37

in wolf hierarchies, 40, 58–59

aggression

body language showing, 109–10, 112

dachshunds and, 53n

designation in dogs, 52–55

in domestication process, 35

eye contact and, 147, 148–49

hormones and, 172

play versus, 5, 61–65, 270

sounds made and, 102

touch and, 293

of wolves, 59

agility training, 288

agonistic, 102

Aibo robot dog, 276

akinetopsia, 132

Alex (parrot), 145n

allelomimetic behavior, 274–79

Allen, Woody, 264–65

American Kennel Club, 49, 50

American Staffordshire terrier, 53n

anal sacs, 84–85, 112, 117

animal cognition, 4–7

anticipation in, 166–72

attention in, 144–59, 290–91

attitudes toward studying dogs, 3–4, 6–7

begging experiments, 155–57

big-brain hypothesis and, 8–9

learned optimism and pessimism, 27–28

play in, 196–205

primates as subjects of, 4–5, 102n

subjective experiences of dogs, 241–58

theory of mind and, 190–96

video cameras and, 5–6

what dogs know, 210–41

see also communication; physical cognition; social cognition; training

animistic, 102n

anosmia, 72

anthropomorphism

adaptiveness of, 31–32

behavior-reading versus, 18–19, 26–28, 31–32

clothing for dogs, 17–19, 29, 56

history, 15

scientific attitude toward, 3–4

temperament and, 47–48

training and, 57–61

umwelt and, 14–17, 23, 31–32, 263n, 294–96

antibiotics, 85, 86

anticipating behavior, 166–72

antidepressants, 16

antithesis, 110, 112

area centralis, 127

artificial odors, 25–26, 69, 71, 72, 86, 292

artificial selection, 6, 35–37, 41

assistance dogs, 43, 134–35, 152, 162, 240, 274

associative learning (associations), 10–11, 167–68, 182, 225, 232–33, 289

attachment

of dogs, 42–43, 63–65

greeting and, 43, 271–72

of human infants, 43

of socialized wolves, 63–64

attacks, in rough-and-tumble play, 1–2, 24, 62, 196–98, 200, 202, 205–6, 221

attention, 139–59

of animals, 144–59, 290–91

avoiding, 143, 144

baited buckets and, 150–51

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