Dog Speak: What Your Pet is Trying to Tell You

Description

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 non-verbal noises. 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.

Yelena Bryksenkova is a freelance illustrator and fine artist based in Montreal, Canada. She was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, grew up in Cleveland and studied illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Czech Republic. Her acryla gouache paintings are inspired by her love of home and the comfort of everyday objects, as well as more magical, mysterious and melancholy themes. 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 Gardner and for Michael O'Mara Books.