How to Speak Dog – a Review
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
How to Speak Dog
by Sarah Whitehead
How To Speak Dog
Last spring we bought my oldest daughter a puppy. Full of energy and armed with enough cute to overpower a roomful of Hello Kitty, our new puppy proved to be quite a challenge, especially for our daughter. Off to the library and bookstores to learn and we fortunately returned with an excellent batch of books.
We also went to Dog Obedience School where my wife and daughter learned the fine points of dog training. I swear, the women who taught that class have magic powers! My wife and daughter would dutifully copy every move and nuance to get our puppy to do what we asked, but never with success. One of the instructors would come over and POOF! our puppy was sitting, lying down, or staying.
Things were a little like Hogwarts, where, it turns out, the magic could be and was imparted. Our dog now is performing tricks at every turn and fattening herself up on the generous amount of treats she earns.
The point of that bunny trail is that these exact same magic powers, and even more, are delivered for much much less cash in Sarah Whitehead’s book, How to Speak Dog. I only attended the first two training sessions, but after I learned to speak dog, I too was a master canine communicator and I get some cool tricks myself.
Some of the things you’ll learn from this book are:
Learning Canine as a Second Language
What Dogs Really Think About Training
How to Speak Dog
Tricks, Tricks, and Tricks
I really enjoyed this book. It has a companion, too, Puppy Training for Kids
