Motivating "How to Speak Dog" is the Franciscan fantasy of talking to animals.
There's a speaking dog in the film Up? We'll have that one then.
In "How to Speak Dog," Coren discusses, with diagrams, ear talk, eye talk, scent talk, and tail talk, and he appends a "visual glossary and doggish phrasebook".
Coren is the author of several books about dogs — "The Intelligence of Dogs," "What Do Dogs Know?," "Why We Love the Dogs We Do," and "How to Speak Dog".
But it's not telepathy -- it's body language, said Stanley Coren, an experimental neuropsychologist at the University of British Columbia and the author of "How to Speak Dog" (Fireside/Simon & Schuster).
(Dr. Coren's avocation, incidentally, is writing about dogs, and he has published such page-turners as "How to Speak Dog" and "What Do Dogs Know?") Dr. Coren is convinced that humans are naturally right-handed and that left-handedness is largely a consequence of what he calls "birth stress," by which he means factors like an unnatural placement that causes damage to the fetus in the womb.
In almost all cases, dogs take great pains to warn humans when they're feeling unsafe, but the trouble is that most humans simply don't speak Dog.
I'll never know how long he was walking about in the cold, dark world on his own before we found him because I don't speak dog, and even if I did, he's not much of a talker.
If you shout, scream at him or hit him, he'll just learn that he has a crazy owner who can't speak "dog", and that you don't know what you want.
I do miss my dogs when I'm travelling, but I stop and speak to dogs - dogs often stop and speak to you.
