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Speaker 1: Missed opportunity. I love sharing conversations. Hosting them requires show prep.

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My podcasting platforms feature thousands of guests. What you don't

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have access to are my missed opportunities. That's when the

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show prep was completed, but the conversation didn't happen. There

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was a last minute change. I keep all of my

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notes because I believe the paths will one day cross again.

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Let me explain missed opportunity. It's my questions and statements

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without their answers. I'm leaving open enough space at the

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end of every question, hoping they'll download the talk and

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insert their answers. And it has happened. Missed opportunity is

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a lost piece of history, like a message in a

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bottle tossed out to see I hope to locate a destination.

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This week, we're putting focus on my missed opportunity with

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Alexandra Horowitz, the author of the book Bean a Dog. Okay,

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Alexandra Horowitz, the author of the book Bean a Dog

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Following the Dog in a world of Oh my God.

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I know exactly why I chose to do this interview.

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My dog can't keep her nose out of the ground.

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The invitation to share a conversation. Arrived on October seventeenth,

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two thousand and seventeen. It's currently twenty twenty five, so

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eight years have gone by. Alexandra is the author of

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several tail wagging favorites. She's also a teacher at Barnard College,

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where she really does run the Dog Coalition Labs. The

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conversation would take place the following week. The time limit

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with Alexandra would be ten minutes, ten fifty to eleven AM.

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But something went seriously wrong on ten nineteen. Just two

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days later, they requested a brand new time. I said

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that I was booked between nine and nine ten ams.

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They said, that's cool. Can we do it at nine

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oh five? Then? What let's see? I said, I was

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booked between nine am and nine ten. Okay, that's cool,

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we can do nine oh five. Then, well, what does

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that tell you? It didn't happen? Coming up next the

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questions and the statements. We're going all out dogs with

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Alexandra Horowitz. Hey, thanks for coming back to my missed

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opportunity with Alexandra Horowitz. The name of her book being

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a Dog following the Dog into a World of Smell.

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I gotta ask you Alexandra are dogs? Are they farmers

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or are they humans? Because what they do with that

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nose in that soil, they're either digging for something, allowing

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it to air rate, or they're finding something in there

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to chow down like a very hungry human. A dog's nose,

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how much of it do we as humans need to

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trust it? Now? Personally? Because I have rescued nine beautiful

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little babies from different humane shelters around the area. Dogs,

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to me, are absolutely the greatest teachers on the planet.

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Do you agree the world of smell? We as humans

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we can only smell so much. But what is it

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that we're missing compared to dogs. I believe that dogs

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can see and smell that I've rescued nine beautiful, little

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fuzzy babies. Is that the reason why when they come

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up to me, they take that big whiff of my

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leg or my hand or whatever, and it's like, okay,

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you can pass, You're cool, We like you. You save us

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as a human. Is it okay to be very jealous

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of dogs? Oh? Wow, this really hits me hard. Remember

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this took place in two thoy seventeen, and there's a

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very very powerful statement here. Truthfully speaking, my dog has lymphoma,

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which Sophia did. I'm learning to fight with her in

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the way of being her strongest, strongest support system. This

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shocks me because it's twenty twenty five. That was eight

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years ago. Wow. Wow, it's crazy how we keep our

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notes for a very long time period and we're shot

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back to memory that quickly. The art of observation, dogs

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and human noses, which one really wins and which one

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takes up the fewest amount of time? And there you

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have it, another missed opportunity. This time around it was

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with Alexandra Horrowitz. Missed opportunity is a lost piece of history.

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You now know the questions and statements, so let's locate

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the answers. The door is always going to be open.

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If you are or no Alexandra Horowitz, please reach out

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to me at errocatgmail dot com. That's a R R

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O E. C at gmail dot com And as always,

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be brilliant