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October 11, 2025 4 mins
Missed Opportunity- I love sharing conversations.  Hosting requires show prep.  My podcasting platforms feature thousands of guests.  What you don’t have access to are the missed opportunities. The show prep was completed.  The conversation didn’t happen.  I keep all my notes! Paths will cross again.  Let me explain Missed Opportunity.  It’s my questions and statements without their answers.  I’m leaving open enough space at the end of each question hoping they’ll download the talk and insert their answers.Missed Opportunity is a lost piece of history.  Like a message in a bottle tossed out to sea. I hope to locate a destination…
  This week we’re putting focus on my missed opportunity with Alexandra Horowitz the author of Being A Dog. Missed Opportunity.  A lost piece of history.  You know the questions.  Let’s locate the reactions.  The door is always open.  If you are or know Alexandra Horowitz please reach out to me at arroec@gmail.com that’s arroec@gmail.com Be brilliant!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Missed opportunity. I love sharing conversations. Hosting them requires show prep.
My podcasting platforms feature thousands of guests. What you don't
have access to are my missed opportunities. That's when the
show prep was completed, but the conversation didn't happen. There
was a last minute change. I keep all of my

(00:20):
notes because I believe the paths will one day cross again.
Let me explain missed opportunity. It's my questions and statements
without their answers. I'm leaving open enough space at the
end of every question, hoping they'll download the talk and
insert their answers. And it has happened. Missed opportunity is
a lost piece of history, like a message in a

(00:41):
bottle tossed out to see I hope to locate a destination.
This week, we're putting focus on my missed opportunity with
Alexandra Horowitz, the author of the book Bean a Dog. Okay,
Alexandra Horowitz, the author of the book Bean a Dog
Following the Dog in a world of Oh my God.

(01:01):
I know exactly why I chose to do this interview.
My dog can't keep her nose out of the ground.
The invitation to share a conversation. Arrived on October seventeenth,
two thousand and seventeen. It's currently twenty twenty five, so
eight years have gone by. Alexandra is the author of
several tail wagging favorites. She's also a teacher at Barnard College,
where she really does run the Dog Coalition Labs. The

(01:25):
conversation would take place the following week. The time limit
with Alexandra would be ten minutes, ten fifty to eleven AM.
But something went seriously wrong on ten nineteen. Just two
days later, they requested a brand new time. I said
that I was booked between nine and nine ten ams.
They said, that's cool. Can we do it at nine

(01:46):
oh five? Then? What let's see? I said, I was
booked between nine am and nine ten. Okay, that's cool,
we can do nine oh five. Then, well, what does
that tell you? It didn't happen? Coming up next the
questions and the statements. We're going all out dogs with

(02:09):
Alexandra Horowitz. Hey, thanks for coming back to my missed
opportunity with Alexandra Horowitz. The name of her book being
a Dog following the Dog into a World of Smell.
I gotta ask you Alexandra are dogs? Are they farmers
or are they humans? Because what they do with that

(02:31):
nose in that soil, they're either digging for something, allowing
it to air rate, or they're finding something in there
to chow down like a very hungry human. A dog's nose,
how much of it do we as humans need to
trust it? Now? Personally? Because I have rescued nine beautiful
little babies from different humane shelters around the area. Dogs,

(02:55):
to me, are absolutely the greatest teachers on the planet.
Do you agree the world of smell? We as humans
we can only smell so much. But what is it
that we're missing compared to dogs. I believe that dogs
can see and smell that I've rescued nine beautiful, little
fuzzy babies. Is that the reason why when they come

(03:18):
up to me, they take that big whiff of my
leg or my hand or whatever, and it's like, okay,
you can pass, You're cool, We like you. You save us
as a human. Is it okay to be very jealous
of dogs? Oh? Wow, this really hits me hard. Remember
this took place in two thoy seventeen, and there's a

(03:38):
very very powerful statement here. Truthfully speaking, my dog has lymphoma,
which Sophia did. I'm learning to fight with her in
the way of being her strongest, strongest support system. This
shocks me because it's twenty twenty five. That was eight
years ago. Wow. Wow, it's crazy how we keep our
notes for a very long time period and we're shot

(03:59):
back to memory that quickly. The art of observation, dogs
and human noses, which one really wins and which one
takes up the fewest amount of time? And there you
have it, another missed opportunity. This time around it was
with Alexandra Horrowitz. Missed opportunity is a lost piece of history.

(04:21):
You now know the questions and statements, so let's locate
the answers. The door is always going to be open.
If you are or no Alexandra Horowitz, please reach out
to me at errocatgmail dot com. That's a R R
O E. C at gmail dot com And as always,
be brilliant
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