How To Speak Dog
Mastering the Art of Dog-Human Communication
Published on 21. September 2010
288 pages
978-1-4516-2568-4 (ISBN)
Description
"A must read for all dog owners." ?The Washington Post
"The best key to what dogs are thinking." ?The Seattle Times
How to Speak Dog is one of the few books today that show us what dogs are trying to tell us, not just how we can control them.
Parlez-vous Doggish?
At long last, dogs will know just how smart their owners can be. By unlocking the secrets of the hidden language of dogs, psychologist Stanley Coren allows us into the doggy dialogue, or ?Doggish,? and makes effective communication a reality.
Drawing on substantial research in animal behavior, evolutionary biology, and years of personal experience, Coren demonstrates that the average house dog can understand language at about the level of a two-year-old human. While actual conversation of the sort Lassie seemed capable of in Hollywood mythmaking remains forever out of reach, Coren shows us that a great deal of real communication is possible beyond the giving and obeying of commands.
How to Speak Dog not only provides the sounds, words, actions, and movements with which we can effectively communicate with our dogs, but also deciphers the signs that our dogs give to us. With easy-to-follow tips on how humans can mimic the language dogs use to talk with one another, original drawings illustrating the subtleties of their body language, and a handy visual glossary and ?Doggish? phrasebook, How to Speak Dog gives dog lovers the skills they need to improve their relationships with their pets.
"The best key to what dogs are thinking." ?The Seattle Times
How to Speak Dog is one of the few books today that show us what dogs are trying to tell us, not just how we can control them.
Parlez-vous Doggish?
At long last, dogs will know just how smart their owners can be. By unlocking the secrets of the hidden language of dogs, psychologist Stanley Coren allows us into the doggy dialogue, or ?Doggish,? and makes effective communication a reality.
Drawing on substantial research in animal behavior, evolutionary biology, and years of personal experience, Coren demonstrates that the average house dog can understand language at about the level of a two-year-old human. While actual conversation of the sort Lassie seemed capable of in Hollywood mythmaking remains forever out of reach, Coren shows us that a great deal of real communication is possible beyond the giving and obeying of commands.
How to Speak Dog not only provides the sounds, words, actions, and movements with which we can effectively communicate with our dogs, but also deciphers the signs that our dogs give to us. With easy-to-follow tips on how humans can mimic the language dogs use to talk with one another, original drawings illustrating the subtleties of their body language, and a handy visual glossary and ?Doggish? phrasebook, How to Speak Dog gives dog lovers the skills they need to improve their relationships with their pets.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
11/2001
Simon & Schuster Ltd
€18.50
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Person
Stanley Coren an international authority on sidedness, is professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Born to Bark: My Adventures with an Irrepressible and Unforgettable Dog (2010), among other books.
Content
Contents
Preface
1 Conversations with Canines
2 Evolution and Animal Language
3 A Dog Is Listening
4 Is the Dog Really Listening?
5 Animal Noise or Animal Speech?
6 The Dog Speaks
7 Learning to Speak
8 Face Talk
9 Ear Talk
10 Eye Talk
11 Tail Talk
12 Body Talk
13 The Point of the Matter
14 Sex Talk
15 Signing and Typing
16 Scent Talk
17 Dogs Talking to Cats
18 Doggish Dialects
19 Is It Language?
20 Talking Doggish and Doggerel
Postscript: One Last Word
Appendix: Visual Glossary and Doggish Phrasebook
Endnotes
Index
