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.
ISBN: | 9780743202978 |
Publisher: | Fireside |
Imprint: | Fireside |
Published date: | 17 Apr 2001 |
DEWEY: | 636.70887 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 274 |
Weight: | 340g |
Height: | 215mm |
Width: | 140mm |
Spine width: | 13mm |