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How Smart Is Your Dog?: 30 Fun Science Activities with Your Pet
Winner of the Dog Writers Association of America
“Best Children’s Book 2003”!
“From its irresistible cover photograph to its concluding ideas for directing a love of dogs into a lifetime career, this is an appealing, user-friendly book, buttressed by plenty of scientific fact.”— Booklist
“Fun, enlightened fare for inquisitive dog owners.”— School Library Journal
Get to know your best friend better by entering the world of canine senses. With this fun mix of activities, play, and science, kids can find out more about how dogs see, hear, smell, taste, and touch differently from humans, and how a dog’s life and aging process differ from ours. You even learn to read your dog’s mind— brain function, intelligence, memory, and more. The most fun part is the experiments to test your dog’s health, reflexes, vision, and sense of smell; or even trace its behavior back to the wolves that are its ancestors. A Selection of Scholastic Book Clubs.
“Best Children’s Book 2003”!
“From its irresistible cover photograph to its concluding ideas for directing a love of dogs into a lifetime career, this is an appealing, user-friendly book, buttressed by plenty of scientific fact.”— Booklist
“Fun, enlightened fare for inquisitive dog owners.”— School Library Journal
Get to know your best friend better by entering the world of canine senses. With this fun mix of activities, play, and science, kids can find out more about how dogs see, hear, smell, taste, and touch differently from humans, and how a dog’s life and aging process differ from ours. You even learn to read your dog’s mind— brain function, intelligence, memory, and more. The most fun part is the experiments to test your dog’s health, reflexes, vision, and sense of smell; or even trace its behavior back to the wolves that are its ancestors. A Selection of Scholastic Book Clubs.
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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D. Caroline Coile
38 books15 followersD. Caroline Coile, Ph.D., is an award-winning writer who has been showing dogs for more than a quarter of a century.
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March 23, 2009
We picked this up at the Goodwill for 50 cents.
This book does NOT actually help you determine how smart your dog is. However, it is replete with interesting facts about dogs, their anatomy and behavior.
The science activities alluded to in the title are varied - some of them are basically "guess what breed your dog is!?" while others are well-designed simple science experiments or instructions for training your dog. For example, I am currently training my dog to track scents like a bloodhound! Also, Dr. Coile suggests making noseprints using food coloring, essentially treating your dog's nose like a stamp. I cannot imagine what kind of dog would allow you to successfully execute this experiment.
Don't let the fact that it's written for children dissuade you. This is a great book!
This book does NOT actually help you determine how smart your dog is. However, it is replete with interesting facts about dogs, their anatomy and behavior.
The science activities alluded to in the title are varied - some of them are basically "guess what breed your dog is!?" while others are well-designed simple science experiments or instructions for training your dog. For example, I am currently training my dog to track scents like a bloodhound! Also, Dr. Coile suggests making noseprints using food coloring, essentially treating your dog's nose like a stamp. I cannot imagine what kind of dog would allow you to successfully execute this experiment.
Don't let the fact that it's written for children dissuade you. This is a great book!
May 23, 2013
Both Nutty (dog) and myself (human) enjoyed these activities immensely. Lots of fun and with 30 tricks to try if either dog or human cannot get to grips with one then you can simply move on to the next. Win-win and definitely recommended (although it helps if you have a dog.
April 28, 2009
This is a great book. It inspired me to spend more time with my dog and give him more attention. I also am more focused on training him now.
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