What the Dog Knows - Scent, Science and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World by Cat Warren

A firsthand exploration of the extraordinary abilities and surprising, and even sometimes, the life-saving talents of “working dogs”—pups who can sniff out drugs, find explosives, even locate the dead. This book is told through the experiences of a journalist and her intrepid canine companion, which The New York Times calls, “a fascinating, deeply reported journey into the…amazing things dogs can do with their noses.”

There are thousands of working dogs all over the US and beyond with incredible abilities. They can find missing people, detect drugs and bombs, pinpoint unmarked graves of Civil War soldiers, or even find drowning victims more than two hundred feet below the surface of a lake. These abilities may seem magical or mysterious, but author, Cat Warren, shows the science, the rigorous training, and the skilled handling that underlie these creatures’ amazing abilities.

Being a Dog - Following the Dog into a World of Smell by Alexandra Horowitz

Alexandra Horowitz, the author of the lively, highly informative New York Times bestselling blockbuster, Inside of a Dog, explains how dogs perceive the world through their most spectacular organ—the nose—and how we humans can put our under-used sense of smell to work in surprising ways.

To a dog, there is no such thing as “fresh air.” Every breath of air is loaded with information. The tracking dog, of course, knows this,  but also the dog lying next to you, snoring, on the couch—knows about the world mostly through his nose.

In Being a Dog, Alexandra Horowitz, a research scientist, in the field of dog cognition, and the author of the runaway bestseller, Inside of a Dog, unpacks the mystery of a dog’s worldview as has never been done before.

With her family dogs, Finnegan and Upton, leading the way, Horowitz sets off on a quest to make sense of scents. She combines a personal journey of smelling with a tour through the cutting edge and improbable science behind the olfactory powers of the dog. From revealing the spectacular biology of the dog's snout, to speaking to other cognitive researchers and smell experts across the country, to visiting detection-dog training centers, and even attempting to smell-train her own nose, Horowitz covers the topic of noses—both canine and human—from surprising, novel, and always fascinating angles.

As we come to understand how complex the world around us appears to the canine nose, Horowitz changes our perspective on dogs forever. Readers will finish this book feeling that they have smelled into a fourth dimension—breaking free of human constraints and understanding smell as never before; that they have, however fleetingly, been a dog.

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