Dog Speak: What Your Pet is Trying to Tell You

About the Author Liz Marvin is a London-based freelance editor and writer. She has previously written Dog Speak, How to Be More Tree, The Secret Lives of Animals and The Windowsill Gardener for Michael O'Mara Books. Yelena Bryksenkova is an illustrator and fine artist working primarily by hand using acryla gouache and coloured pencils on paper. She studied illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, USA and the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Czech Republic. Yelena's work often features welcoming interior and exterior spaces, with scenes of daily life, nature and people and animals in repose. She lives and works in Montreal, Canada. Product Description 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. Book Description If we want to really bond with our much-loved pets, we need to understand what they're trying to tell us.