Do you speak Doggish?
“Coco, Coco, Co-cooo!” yelled the anguished Gun mid-drive as Coco tore past her for the third time in a row.
“He knows his name,” remarked the gamekeeper grimly. “You need to tell him what you want him to do.”
“Oh God, I’m so sorry. How can I stop him doing this?”
“Don’t let him do it in the first place,” came the tight-lipped reply.
And there’s the question – how can you teach anyone, let alone a dog, when you don’t speak their language? Well, you can succeed with a bit of creative thinking.
Imagine you are trying to teach a young person who is a very poor reader to play the guitar. If he can’t ‘translate’ the print on the page into words, he won’t be able to ‘translate’ musical notation into sounds. But you can help him by using Lego bricks. Colour-code each
