“A fuller understanding of the needs of dogs is integral to good living with dogs,” says Alexandra Horowitz. Alexandra Horowitz photographed by Vegar Abelsnes An interview with New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Alexandra Horowitz, about her wonderful new book, Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond , the importance of dogs' sense of smell, the dignity of dogs, and what happens at the dog cognition lab. Our Dogs Ourselves was the animal book club ’s choice for September 2019. Our Dogs, Ourselves and other great animal books are available in my Amazon store: //www.amazon.com/shop/animalbookclub . This page contains affiliate links . Zazie: You’re already written some wonderful books about dogs, including the New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog . What made you decide to look at the relationship between people and their dogs for this book? Alexandra: For myself, it was that, even though I’m studying exclusively dogs, I study owned dogs