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Alexandra Horowitz

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“And Marissa for being with us here in Jaime and Steve for joining us today. Inside of a dog. If you have a dog, you need this book. Or give it to a friend. It's a great gift for a friend who has a dog. Go well, everybody. Can subscribe to the Overpodcast on YouTube and follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. I'll see you next week. Thanks, everybody”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You have my permission. Cow dung is where it ends. Thank you. Dr. Harrow is his book, Inside of a Dog is now fully revised and updated and available everywhere books are sold. It's going to change the way you take your dog on their next walk. A big thank you to the farmer's dog for partnering with us on this episode. Their fresh food has been clinically shown to help dogs age well so you can have more good years together. And as I said, for years I made all of my dogs food and I ran into somebody from Farmer's dog and they said, have you tried Farmer's Dog? And I was like, no, never tried that because we make our dog food fresh from scratch. And I can tell you that we put a bowl of the freshly made food that we had done and the fresh food from Farmer's Dog. And now that's all Sadie's eating. Pretty amazing. Thank you, Dr. Harowitz.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So even if you, obviously, we have to bathe our dogs, but if you're going to bathe a dog, you should bathe your dog in a scentless shampoo”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think when they get together, they must say, Can you believe what my human did today? She had me dressed up in a Halloween costume. And I look ridiculous. Yes, I think that do they also, it seems like as soon as I would give the dogs a bath, they would go find, especially out here, some cow dung to roll in. Yeah.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Their body is suited for that. Say that to everybody. We're thinking you were putting the coat on them because it's going to keep them warmer or keep them dry or keep them that. And for them, it feels like pressure.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, when I first started reading this book, I was fascinated because I've seen people out with their dogs with raincoats. When I lived in Chicago, I had a raincoat. Reading this book, I know that's the last thing the dog wanted was a raincoat.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah. Wonderful to talk to you. Thank you so much. We love your Instagram. It's so great. It's so great. Thank you, Steve”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's what I was going to say, Steve. I think a lot of people fear adopting a senior dog because they'll be set number one, set in their behaviors, or you think that the dog is going to soon die, or you think you're going to have all kinds of medical problems. What do you want people to know about what it's like to adopt an older dog?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, yeah, I had no seniors. It was a crazy all the time and feeding time was always crazy. And, you know, I have to say this for years, I was making all the food for my dogs. And for years, Sadie has had homemade fresh. And now she only eats the farmer's dog.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Every time I was introducing a new Doug, I remember introducing Sonny and Lauren to Luke and Layla and Sadie in that group. And I would put my t-shirt on the new dogs, let the new dogs sleep in my t-shirt overnight and introduce the new dogs to the old dogs in my t-shirt. So there would be my sin combined with the scent of the dogs.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you know what I've noticed too, I realized one of the reasons why I have such peace about getting older myself is because I've watched so many dogs go through that process. Do you find the same thing?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Your story because I have a friend Sally Jordan in Santa Barbara who's done the same thing over the years. She's adopted disabled dogs and senior dogs and you go to her house and dogs are like in their little wheelchair carts and they, yeah, it's really, it takes a magnanimous heart to do that. Why do you... Because everybody loves the puppies. Everybody loves the puppies. And why are you attracted to the seniors, do you think?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wow I hear because of Steve's Instagram page, hundreds of senior dogs have been adopted. That's really incredible. Steve is joining us from Ohio. Hi, Steve.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. Well, thank you. Thank you so much, Jime. Thanks for sharing. Thank you. While we're working on this show, my team came across an Instagram that caught our eye. Listen to Steve's story.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's a new relationship. It's a new energy and new relationship. Relationship, but it does fill that space and that silence”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay. You'll get something a totally new person, you know? Yeah, you'll get her. That's the thing. It's not the same one again.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it's the quality of life that matters. Yeah, and the spirit. And when you say this is not going to be the same Lennox, right? When you see that this person, this dog you know, has lost themselves at some level, right? They're not the same spirit. That's when you know it's time, right? And that's so horrible that we have to oversee this part of their life. But it sounds like you did as much as you could for Lennox. And he would have looked in your face and known that. Yeah. Smelled it. How are your family and your kids doing?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, don't feel the guilt, you know, Jaime, if you've been listening, I was sharing, I'm going through this right now. And, you know, I was just asking myself the question this morning, if we didn't have all of these medications trying to keep her from having pain, would she have already gone on her own? And so I'm wrestling with this question right now. When is it time? How did you all come to the decision that it was time?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. So if you're a working person, is it better to have two dogs because that dog has a relationship with something to do during the day?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They bored Doing something Nothing to do. Is it better to have, as I said, at one point I had 11 dogs at one time? That's too much, unless you do have a farm. But I've always thought that having at least another dog is good for the dog.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Why are they doing all day? So there's so many people who are listening to us right now. Who have pets and they obviously have to leave home? What are those dogs doing all day?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For some dogs, it's more stressful than others. I had a dog Sophie, who just literally couldn't leave her anywhere. She had such anxiety. Yeah”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think this is so interesting because for years we were told that your dog doesn't know the difference between five minutes or five hours. So what you were saying to Marissa Really changes all that your dog isn't saying, oh, well, 707, oh, or it's been 25 minutes or it's been an hour.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I noticed that sometimes your dog knows that you're coming even before the car pulls up or if the car's in the driveway or you've seen these stories on social media of the dog waiting in the window for the kids to come home or the dog knows that the school bus is coming long before the school bus comes. How did they know that? Are they smelling it or are they just know it's this time of day?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we know that there are lots of trainers who do that, you know, like you're the one in charge. Why do you not condone that?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To my cocker spaniel Sadie. For a while now, Sadie's 17 and a half because it supports healthy aging and I think it's giving us more good days together because every time I feed her the farmer's dog, I know I'm giving her safe quality food. To all my fellow dog lovers, you know our beloved companions give us so much and that is why the farmer's dog helps us do our best for them. Thank you for joining me here on the Oprah podcast for my conversation with dog expert and best-selling author Alexandra Horowitz. We're having so many I never thought of it that way dog moments, so go ahead and share this episode with the fellow dog lovers in your life and while you're at it hit subscribe to the Oprah podcast. Won't cost you a thing. So you believe that trying to show your dog that you're the boss can be harmful.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thank you, Marissa To you in Harvey, you and Harvey 10 years together. That's beautiful. Listeners, is your dog sitting in the window waiting for you to get home before you even pull in the dryway? How do they know to do that? For older dogs, do they know their time is coming to an end? More dog questions for doctor Alexander Arrowitz, after a quick break. Hello, listeners. I always say that one of the great joys of my life has been my dogs. So I am deeply committed to their well-being, just like our friends at the farmer's dog, from my golden retrievers to my copper spaniels. I've had 21 dogs over the years. Their smiles, they do smile, you know. Their snuggles, their spirits remind me to slow down, could be present, and to appreciate the small comforts in life. Listen to this, the farmer's dog makes human-grade food for our dogs with real ingredients and minimal processing. So I've been feeding the farmer's dogs.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I noticed this with Sadie that. Especially when she was really well, that if you're gone for a few minutes, I remember coming saying, Look, I've only been gone for a few minutes and you're this excited. But if you're gone for a long time, she would like go around in circles and bark and yelp and do all the things.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, God bless you for that. I think that's a wonderful thing to have that as another soulmate in the world. Thank you, Rachel. Thank you. Thank you. Marissa dog mummed a 10 year old Harvey is joining us from Texas. Hi, Marissa.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really? Yeah. Well, we're going through it with Sadie. I mean, I think we're in the last days of Sadie. And I would have to say I was on tour in Australia in December and my dog caregiver was like, we don't think she's going to make it. So I rushed home. I thought I was going to have to put her down. And then when I got here, she was, she perked up, you know. But I would have to say that nearing the end and knowing it's the end, because Sadie is 17. So we know we don't have a whole long time, that there's something really quite precious about these days too, because you know you're in the final days. So it's a thing.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my god, yes. Your soul knows. Oh my god, yes, Rachel. I've had this feeling. But so, yes, I don't know if, and my soul dog also knew that he was my soul dog. I could start crying right now. I really could. My Solgog was Luke. I still think of him. And I think when I transition. Luke will be there to greet me on the other side. That's what I think So, yeah, that's what I feel. And I knew he knew he knew. He knew. Yeah. So Dr. Harlow, what do you want to say about that?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All those smells at once. That's why they're all grinning when their heads are out the window. It's like. Oh, come on, baby. Bring it to me, baby. Yeah. We have a few dog lovers joining us with questions for Dr. Horowitz. Rachel, hi.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Why do jogs love this? We've all seen this, and my dog does too when Sadie puts her head out the window. She looks like Farah Fawcett, I have to say. Why dogs love sticking their head out the car window? Because when humans do it, we can't breathe. Why do they love it?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So when the dogs are walking, you see these people pulling their dogs along when their dogs are trying to sniff, sniff, sniff, sniff. You're doing the antithesis of what that dog really is going for the walk for. After reading inside a dog, I thought, oh, the dogs aren't walking to get exercise. Everybody's trying to get the dogs out to exercise. The dogs are walking for the smell sensation, the smelling universe for them.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You say that simply being closer to the ground, the fact that the dogs are closer to the ground, changes how dogs experience sound. How they experience smell, and even their personal space. I just never thought of it that way before.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, and they're smelling all the stress of all the dogs who've been there. Unbelievable. And is that why when we get off the freeway, just even when we're exiting the freeway, I notice in Sadie's in the backseat, she stands up and she, because she's smelling things or does she recognize this is our road?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and one of the reasons they don't want to go to the vet is because they remember the route to the vet because of the way it smells.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's right. And if you have ever hit a dog The dog will, if you, or like I've bought many dogs from the shelter, you raise your hand, the dog cowers, because the dog remembers being hit.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, okay, you just said you do think they have. So do they have memories of their past? Do they think about the future?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because it supports healthy aging and I think it's giving us more good days together because every time I feed her the farmer's dog, I know I'm giving her safe quality food To all my fellow dog lovers, you know our beloved companions give us so much, and that is why the farmer's dog helps us do our best for them. Welcome back to the Oprah podcast. I have had twenty-one dogs in my life, so I wanted to talk with cognitive scientist and best-selling author of Inside of a Dog, doctor Alexander Horitz. We're learning about what's really going on inside the mind of your dog and how they experience the world. I find this so fascinating. Let's get back to it. I read an inside of a dog that they track our movements. How are they doing that?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For a break, do you ever wonder how your dog seems to know they're going to the vet? Why do they love sticking their heads out the car window? And what is a soul dog? I have so many questions for doctor Alexander Horitz, and our listeners do too, so stay with us, dog lovers. Hello, listeners. I always say that one of the great joys of my life has been my dogs. So I am deeply committed to their well-being, just like our friends at the farmer's dog, from my Golden Retrievers to my copper spaniels. I've had 21 dogs over the years. Their smiles, they do smile, you know. Their snuggles, their spirits remind me, to slow down, to be present, and to appreciate the small comforts in life. Listen to this, the farmer's dog makes human brave food for our dogs with real ingredients and minimal processing. So I've been feeding the farmer's dog to my cocker spaniel Sadie for a while now, Sadie's 17 and a half.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, are they like toddlers in that they, because I noticed babies, and we all notice this, that babies react to your sing-songy voice? That's why people talk, baby talk voice, and they react to vibration, they act to the energy of your words as well as the words.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, so do they understand let's go for a walk because they understand the word walk, or do they understand let's go for a walk because usually when you say let's go for a walk, you get the leash and you're headed out the door.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. So do they understand language? I've always heard that they could understand words as well as a toddler. Is that true?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, everything that's happening in our body emotionally and physically, biologically, health-wise, creates its own scent is what you're saying”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And they can smell emotions. They smell our emotions. But you say it goes even further than that in smelling emotions. As you just said, they can detect cancer, they can detect COVID, and even PTSD. How is that? How are they smelling cancer? How are they smelling COVID?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you say that a dog's sense of smell. This is what I learned from reading inside of a dog girl, that the nose is everything to the dog. And it made me understand how over the years, having had 21 dogs, I've had every kind of illnesses. I had five golden retrievers who all had a strain of cancer. I have had dogs who lost their sight and dogs who lost their ability to hear. Sadie can no longer hear. But as long as that nose is working, the sense of smell is so powerful, you say, that they can detect. Listen to you all, a teaspoon of sugar dissolves in a million gallons of water that would be two Olympic-sized swimming pools. So how is that possible? They can detect the smell of a teaspoon of sugar in a million gallons of water. That's”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I think, you know, when I see a dog tied up The backyard somewhere. I always feel like, oh, that dog owner thinks he is the owner in the way that he controls completely that dog.”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it's interesting how you talk in the book, Inside of a Dog, you talk about how legally we are all dog owners But because they are property But how would you describe your relationship with your dog?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's a whole different universe, yes, yes. So when you started writing about dogs, there really wasn't, I don't know if there was, there, a lot of scientific research. How did you understand what's going on inside a dog inside of a dog?”
2026-04-28 · The Oprah Podcast · Dog Behavior Explained: Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reveals Your Dog's Mind to Oprah · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT