Dog Speak

If we want to really bond with our much-loved pets, we need to understand what they're trying to tell us. This beautifully illustrated little book of canine communication explains the creative ways that our dogs talk to us, whether tilting their head, chasing their tail or sitting on your feet.

This beautifully illustrated little book of canine communication explains the creative ways that our dogs talk to us, whether it's tilting their head, chasing their tail or sitting on your feet.

Dogs are the most common household pets throughout the world - for some, it's an excitable Yorkshire terrier, for others an attentive Labrador retriever. But we can deepen that bond by accurately understanding what they're trying to communicate. While we humans mostly rely on words to express how we feel, dogs mainly talk to us, and each other, through a series of facial expressions, body language and other doggy behaviour. If we want to really bond with our much-loved pets, we need to understand what they're trying to tell us with that tail wag, hard stare, or when they're destroying our favourite pair of shoes.

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Liz Marvin is a London-based freelance editor and writer. She has previously written How to Be More Tree, The Secret Lives of Animals and The Windowsill Gardener for Michael O'Mara Books.