In as many ways as we have domesticated dogs, they have also perhaps domesticated us.
.” In her new book, Horowitz’s goal is to think and write about dogs in a way that is distinct from usual pet-related fare about how to teach a puppy not to lunge at children and not to increase your household paper-towel budget. Instead, she aims to try to better understand a young dog, from Day One to day three hundred and sixty-five, as a being in transformation. She wants to write about puppiesHorowitz gets in touch with a woman who is fostering a pregnant rescue dog.
There are quite a few weird, fun, early-weeks-of-puppy-life facts that might interest brains of whatever size. Puppies whose mothers more regularly lie down to let them nurse can grow into dogs who do worse in guide-dog training than their peers who had to make do with the more labor-intensive vertical-nursing style. Puppies who have more maternal contact in early life grow into more “exploratory” dogs, Horowitz writes, and “are more engaged with people and objects.
A similarly early intervention in the life of a puppy is what makes some dogs into “natural” shepherds. Dogs who guard sheep, cattle, or other animals are not necessarily born with that skill. Instead, they are moved, at around nine weeks of age, from their birth litter into a living space with their future species of companionship. A puppy raised among sheep will view sheep as his normal social companions—and will protect those sheep.
Once puppies enter adolescence, the amount of scientific research that reveals cute facts about them declines. We don’t really have a good word for puppy adolescence. From the cliff of “puppy” we stumble straight into “dog.” There isn’t a lot of research on the adolescent stage of dogs. Though we do know that there is a sharp increase in dogs being given up when they become adolescents.
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