Do animals and people communicate? Absolutely. Just the fact that dogs can listen, that we can train them, that we see the interactions between the two, that’s a form of communication. For them, their means of communication is through the body. As a dog breeder, my communication also has to be through the body. They know when
I’m happy. That’s one of the things when we’re racing, or when we’re just running. They know right away if I’m feeling down or in a bad mood, and it affects the way they run. So there’s a great deal of communication. It’s just not vocal. When people speak of communication, right away they think of spoken language. Can we talk to dogs? Will they reply in French,
in English or in Chinese? No, they have their own form of communication.