
Dog Talk: How Our Dogs Communicate with Us and How We Talk Back.
Of all the amazing attributes a dog possesses, the ability to communicate is probably the most impressive. Dogs communicate with us all day, whether we know it or not, we speak directly to them through a variety of verbal and nonverbal cues. In fact, a recent study concluded that dogs use 19 different signals to talk to us. These signals are called “reference signals,” for example, the way babies communicate with their parents. This is also how great apes communicate with each other. Reference signals are rare in non-primates. “Dogs