Rok štěněte - Jak se ze štěňat stávají psi – Horowitzová Alexandra (2025)

How to discover and develop a puppy's true and entirely individual personality An indispensable helper for anyone who wants to better understand their puppy What is it like to be a puppy? This is what the author of the bestseller Inside of a Dog, Alexandra Horowitz, tries to find out. She spent a year carefully observing the everyday existence of her puppy and reflects on its behaviors in light of current scientific knowledge about early dog development. Few people know their dog from the very first day of its life. The creature that will become an integral part of our family, our constant companion, and best friend is born without us, into its own family. Its crucial early development, the transformation of a puppy into a dog, usually happens completely outside of our awareness. Dog researcher Alexandra Horowitz attempted to change this with her new puppy. In the book A Year of the Puppy, she maps the development of the female puppy Quiddity (Quid) from her arrival in the world to her first birthday. Horowitz first observes the first weeks of Quiddity with her dog mother and ten siblings. After the puppy moves into a household with three people, two large dogs, and a vigilant cat, the author tracks each of her subsequent weeks in the new environment. She documents the social and cognitive developmental stages that many people miss in a puppy's life...