Publisher's Synopsis
Communication is the crucial ingredient in any relationship, especially when one of you happens to be a dog. Are you effectively expressing yourself to your hound? What about the other way around , are you catching his drift? Heady questions, to be sure. In HOW TO SPEAK DOG, renowned canine-psychology guru Stanley Coren provides all dog owners with a complete set of tools and skills for improving their relations with their pet.
This ground breaking book, the first to focus on the reciprocal nature of human-dog communication, goes well beyond the giving and obeying of commands. Demonstrating that the average house dog can differentiate up to 140 words, Coren explores the limits of a dog's language abilities and charts the possibilties. He also delivers fresh insights into the amazingly nuanced body language of "doggerel", complete with a glossary of words and phrases dogs can learn to understand and distinguish.
