If Dogs Could Talk: Exploring the Canine Mind

by Vilmos Csányi

Book Overview

"This book is endlessly enlightening and entertaining . . . will appeal to all dog owners." --Ann LaFarge, Taconic News How do dogs think? Short of breeding a talking dog (not as impossible as it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865476861
• ISBN13: 9780865476868
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: North Point Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Balancing leadership and "listening"

The author is a scientist studying dog behavior. He is also a dog-lover and dog-owner who encourages his dogs to talk to him and they do. I liked the mixture of science, research, and personal observation in this book. It also offered a small taste of dogs in another culture. The author may be asking the question "If Dogs Could Talk..." but he's also showing the reader what we know about the way dogs think and ways that dogs do talk if we're willing to learn and pay attention. Though the author doesn't appear to be someone who lets the dogs run his house, he is very attuned to the ways they speak to him. He responds to them and encourages them. I found it a very thought-provoking book about the potential for balancing "leadership and listening".

finally some personal experience and science together

great book for learning about dogs, lots of personal experience, which is great in a sea of technical books, really enjoyed this book and learnt alot.

Interesting read not a lot of practical use

If you are a student of canine behavior and body language, by all means but there are better books out there for those seeking practical information.

Excellent Book

Learned a great deal about the mental abilities of dogs. The book gets into great detail with experiments that are not easy to follow for the non-science reader. I gave it 5 stars because I learned so much more from this book than anywhere else.