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INTRODUCTION

How to Speak Your Dog’s Language

Wouldn’t you love to have a friend, confidante, advisor, and “BS detector” to help you navigate the often frustrating and challenging world of modern relationships? You can, and he or she might even be at your feet or in your lap right now. Yes, I’m talking about your dog!

The secrets to relationship success are actually wrapped up in how you relate to and what you can learn from your furry friend. In fact, your dog holds the key to unlocking all of your relationship goals – whether with a new date, a long-time sweetheart, a spouse, an acquaintance, your friends, or even your family members.

I’m Sheryl Matthys, The Dog Expert, and I specialize in talking with dog lovers about how their dogs impact their human relationships. As The Dog Expert, my mission is about helping humans discover dogs’ hidden codes as a means of communicating with each other more effectively.

Now, I don’t claim to be a dog whisperer or spiritualist, but I have dedicated myself to bridging the communication gap between dogs and owners so that humans can better understand one another. In fact, I’ve been studying this relationship between dogs and humans for years to become more informed about the world of human-to-human and dog-to-human communication, and yes, dogs really do have things to tell us. In this regard I rely heavily on my degrees in psychology and communications, and on my certification as a dog trainer.

I enjoy helping dogs and humans communicate so much, that I created a place “Where Dog Lovers Meet®” for dog lovers to share with one another worldwide. Years ago I founded LeashesandLovers.com – a dog lover’s online social community where you can connect for friendship, find others who share your affinity for your breed, find a date or even love. Business owners also have the opportunity to network and be recommended. It’s a venue for interacting with people about how their dogs impact their lifestyle and relationships – for better or worse – and what it really means to have both “Leashes and Love” in their lives.

My work has been featured on Bravo’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, E!’s #1 Single with Lisa Loeb, Ambush Makeover, Animal Planet and FOXNewsChannel.com, and in Modern Dog magazine, BARK, Entrepreneur, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, as well as hundreds of other online sites, magazines, blogs, newspapers, and TV and radio stations around the world.

I know dogs. I know people. What’s more, I know that dogs and dog lovers communicate with one another on a deeper level than most can fathom. That deeper communication – and how it impacts ALL of the other relationships in one’s life – is precisely what Leashes and Lovers is all about.

Dogs are smart, and are often instinctually accurate about who is right for us and who is wrong for us. Sometimes it’s a physical reaction. Does your dog react warmly to a blind date or chance encounter, or do his hackles resemble a Mohawk? Or, it may be more of a gut reaction, such as discovering how the mood in the room grows increasingly tense when your date shows up – just because you and your dog know something’s not quite right.

Unfortunately, as we all know, your pooch can’t exactly tell you in plain English what he is thinking, so you need to learn how to “hear,” “see,” and “interpret” what your dog is telling you or you’ll miss out on everything he’s trying to say. Think your dog can’t talk? Think again. Man and woman’s best friend speaks volumes, not only to you, but also about you, and about what you really want out of your life and your relationships.

And what’s more, whether dealing with a potential date, lover, family member, co-worker, or friend, many answers to our dilemmas, happiness, or resolve with others can be found by taking a closer look at our relationships with our dogs and what our dogs may be trying to teach us. The more we connect with our dogs, learn from their natural instincts, and apply that to our relationships with others, the more in tune we’ll be with ourselves.

Dogs want to understand you as desperately as you want to understand them. Why do you think they’re always standing at your feet, watching your every move? They’re waiting for your “aha” moment; that epiphany when you’re finally getting their language.

Think of Leashes and Lovers as something like a language conversion book. But instead of converting Spanish to English or English to French, we’re converting what your dog has to say about relationships into understanding and actions, so you can develop and implement natural and organic changes into your lifestyle and relationships right now (much as our dogs do by “living in the present”). So if you’re ready – if you’re willing to learn how to unleash your inner dog and let your dog be your guide – a whole new way of understanding awaits you and your dog.

Dogs want to understand you as desperately as you want to understand them. Why do you think they’re always standing at your feet, watching your every move? They’re waiting for your “aha” moment; that epiphany when you’re finally getting their language.