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DURRANT
LIVERPOOL ECHO
LIVERPOOL,
LANCASHIRE
JUST how much do dogs
DON. He continues his story
understand about death, reli-
of Elke and Belam, the re-
THE
gion and reincarnation ? markable canines who are
Well, their concepts may not
the subject of his. book The
TALKING
be far removed from our own,
Talking Dogs, whichis puo-
according tol MAURICE ROW-
lished to-day,
DOGS
Born again Elke the
pood
tells of life after death
ONE evening. after. a deli- wenn Ilke. tod (Belam à Would please check ffect on ae me than any clearer Dorothy asked reincarnation We decided years andt d
cious cake baked by one of always with you should that this yes the word she othér tappiogs I witnessed againe "Wibat do we mean to. ask Elke.
correspet
Dorothy's aunts, our conr pain end if. Elke meant? What does death that time.
by after death?"
"Have you ever died?" Elke I's e
versation ranged over death).
mean for ber ? Can she Frau Hellmater deaned EIN ZARTE, she began Dorothy asked her. YES.
many. subjects, including There was missing give me another word for
to Elke and to tap: at. the secondi word How ago? Do you ago." two_yearsat
whether dogs had know- word RSDE betw een this DOD ?"
"What is it when she became very tense, know?" loBE.
That
and "if'
ledge of death, God and end"
whose Dorothy passedithre ques- e dies,my love?" almost trembling, her head She then tapped 0 (the coaxed
even reincarnation.
meaning was never estab- tion and, as Elke tap- ZOE
for ZuI down in concentration. tapping for this this could osition
This was partly
lished.
ser answer, took
SCHWER (too
Then came the wcrd also mean two) followed er: "Do
by Elke Tired gryednd being But she was clearly say- Sot each letter carefully. chwer diffi cult) DUKLE.
by LARE which was. olearly bench at
left alone with Keesha and ing sometining dramatic Elke tapped with
dame the answer. L "Do you mean dunkle by her phonetic rendering were toda
the puppies while the rest like: prefer death to single error, unhesita g : "Do you mean too dif- this word?" YES.
Jahre (years).
of there once
of us, including Belam, loneliness. That evening The wordi saw tnfolding asked icult her. to say?" Dorothy Then came NEBEL MIT "Do you mean two years ES
returned to Berchtesgaden she came home with us. on my pad was eveil more
you do, tap ETERNIS CHE ECHT and something?" YES. "When
at the end of each even- She had tapped the word astonishing than the first three times. Or do you SCHAIN. The whole sen- "Have you died only wasy you
she tapped BELA IMR DOD, which Dorothy inter- one. It was, GESTORBEN mean too difificult foryour tence stood for ein zarter once?" YES.
Frorat
Rtr OICH DARFE WIE ZO preted at once at Tod (died). I showedit.to the Geant? If you do, tap five, dunkler Nebel mit eternisc "Can say more that
ENDE WEN ELKE (death). was too Sur- others in silence, and-there. dimes."
ben echten. Schiein (a soft dentige YES.
DOD for Belam immer mit prised to be able to accept wasa gasp.
Elke tar ped five times. mist with eternal genuine aloot about God?" YES. BESONDE
euch darf Weh zu ende this and asked her: Ithink this hadkdeeper To make the question lustre).
She then tapped ER ÉIN (the sadly) secad ENs
As the words formed on
my pad anid she went on
Elke Elke warl
tapping in ter deeply
sick "How
absorbed way, her eyes TOMORROW: three) LAEE
each almost other, closed, our we spines gared ting- at
three yer
ling with astonishment. a ROWDON
"Do yus
- One evening we talked
years?'


WEST LANCASHIRE LA
BLACKPOOL,
ISSUE 118 SEP 1978
LANCASHIRE
DATED
Turn
the radio off
said Belam
the dog
It's too loud'!
IAVE YOU heard
She claims a lot more, the dogsan alphabet of Meyer was a former school- lustre." They asked Belam
bout the dog who too, according to author taps. They learned to do teacher, who had been a similar question. His
valked into a living- Maurice Rowdon, who has sums and, then, to tap let- asked by Frau Hilde Heil- reply was "One rests in
oom and asked for written a book, "The Talk- ters, words, and, finally, maier, the owner of the peace."
ing Dogs" (Macmillan, complete sentences.
dogs, to set up a school for
Maurice Rowdon
he radio to be turned £5.95) about the Saluki and If Fraulein Meyer was the animals.
that the dogs answered reports,
ff because it was too a poodle named Elke who able to guess the sentence
Frau Heilmaier was questions about God, about * a
oud? It's not a joke. were taught to "talk" by after a word or two then the intenseley interested in each other, and about the -
Fraulein Meyer by tapping dogs didn't bother to finish animal intelligence and raising of
and their
Fraulein Dorothy their paws.
had read a numberof books training puppies - all from the 1
feyer, who taught a For example, three taps Maurice Rowdon went to about animals which had
point tofview.
named
aluki
Belam to with the right paw means Berchtesgaden, once been. taught to communi- dogs'
ommunicate with her, yes.' Three taps with the left notorious asi Hitler'smoun- cate. She wanted to start.a
laims it happened paw means no.
tain hide-out, to see Frau- school of her own.
writes Ron Thompson). Fraulein Meyer spent lein Méyer and.the dogs.
Lessons began with Elke, 000
'hundreds of hours teaching He found that Fraulein an eager and apt pupil. Les-
a Snal
sons started when she was
4i3
hardly a year old. She
wasn't too keen at first
They also joined in family T
But, gradually, she life.
learned the alphabetand


MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1978 EVENING NEWS 17
STARTING TODAY... The extraordinary story that raises the question: Are dogs more human than we ever imagined?
THE TALKING DOGS
Can dogs communicate with human beings as
equals? Are they much cleverer than we
have been
a kind
? really
what
They
taught
thought Do they understand we
are saying ? These are the questions raised in a
remarkable new book, THE TALKING DOGS,
Morse code
which
serialised in the Evening News this week.
doggy
We present the evidence author Maurice
Rowdon discovered when he went to Germany to
out their
see the experiments of animal teacher Dorothy
they tap
thoughts
Meyer who claimed she had taught a poodle and
a saluki to f talk," by use of a complicated
and
routine of paw taps, like a doggy Morse code.
feelings
Rowdon arrived as a sceptic, and left, weeks
later, convinced dogs had, and can express, the
whole gamut of human emotions.
o We have placed all the author's evidence in the
hands of Stanley Dangerfield, one of the world's
leading experts on dogs. His verdict on The
Talking Dogs will appear later this week. What
he has to say will surprise you.
0 There's a chance for you to have your say, too.
Already we have heard from one reader who saw
a Labrador able to play dominoes-using paw
tapping to indicate which piece to play. Write
and tell us what you think about talking. dogs.
o And your dog can join in, too, to win a year's
supply of dog food ! See below.
MAURICE
ROWDON
WHEN I first met seratch-with only printed
Elké II, the Stand- records tappings, of pronrta animal or so
ard poodle bitch,
to on.
and Belam, the bedors.o in doubt- had
Saluki male, on a ing
alithe
b er
hot Septeml
afternoon at Salz- HE when it
burg airport, the ey Like she had:
were sitting waiting
accept
for me with their reality
teacher.
E TE H
Elke's white fur was CUNLD that
dazzling in the remark-
taLE
ably clear, mountain-
integrity,
reflected sunlight. Her
Dorothy Meyer, above, teacher of the talking dogs, interprets as Belam, the saluki, taps out a message in her palm with his paw. Poodle Elke II, right, welcomed author
the same
and
eyes were round
Rowdon
way.
black and vivaciously
Sch=22 taps. Then she word to be tapped again. viction-rather as child- Then begins the slow effort diffculties sometimes terse, but strictly in line
attentive.
he held out her hand for the It was
clear ren, bubbling over with of concentrating on the in way.
generally
stood their
with their different per-
when a
been
too
clever.
into.
something to and
Who'sa
bsi
the dogs tap
word had
say
word tobe tapped.
Undoubtedly the dogs sonalities.
# shyer
with
some
Elke's message for me completed because the dog excited to compose it pro- Sometimes there are tapped letters. But wasn't Also, I was to see much
his
was: firm and unhesitat-
move-
long
LE L
nose,
would make some perly, supply with their pauses between one there an element of over- more evidence of their in-
what
deliciously MREAT
ing.
ment of relief excite- and expresslons letter another,"
then?
at the
and while free interpretation on
just
the
nine, and
boy
straggling fur.
First came ten
pause longer words short of.
seems to
dsma
ment, or for
are
the
lose Dorothy's part?
Asayt
a the three taps which, I found than usual.
track oF what he or she Would these tappings
artnces
same consulting
that
to He
quicker than
senuntea
Hideout
the alpha- After reminding me
wants
turn
lostoes
PALOT
say. gazes
to be mostly a
out
bet list, made DER. Then the dogs phonetically
even nods
way
jumble letters from
ZR.' This
have
eEDOTEety
TeE 20 and three, for
thread seems to
aece
uncanny way.
They heard a
also cottage was followed by 13, 20, 16,
COmIEET
which she chose-indeed,
about been
metres where
the
eye
clever to win
had.
sehr
long half-constructed
n your dog
book
often
IZS. lastly flve,
FEr
OUPITE
less
and hep make
Areula
back
unless he's Maes
us in more 250
the
known to
excited
and
doubts
vere
taps
tence
EREITA
the
DER
answer
in eye.
ion
FE FE
ran thsz ZR
oFE
miner
evening.
Itwas hot, exhilarat- table, and began. LIB.
he under-
were about
"greet-
day
Eeaene
that Tamoure
Pause tappea
Aust-
Precise
the
Ees
messages
how
dacepand
Relief
realise
that
per
have
2oH
EMEENT
out
Ene
the
messages were structed
one
was
have rarely met E5.
then coaxes them
They laid to:
free
paw Dorothy's
was the
the tapping
the
resort
towns,
Dorothy
each word
PLrena
side
EREI
as Hitler's
and
Carebod
the
meant
Platacontas
tapping
dog
remember
one
MOTE
eout
the
ht. The
MTe letters
thous dog to have been at the
sit her such a
convince
in the German and
YES or
that
was NO,
anD
Deeanes
next
tapping
iheaprear answer
them-
know
only the
airice Roudon
AEI
asked
Publ
for the
leny WIER
taps,
The
example:
Dorothy
FarALDe dogse con- E700 overbalancing. say,
woole precise and even
Mer,
TEE
Tnar
wemncots
feyere
25-95 on September
She had started from
TOMORROW: ELKE THE POODLE LEARNS TO COUNT UP TO 50


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5SY26 SEP 1978
BOOKMARK
A PLANK BRIDGE BY A POOL by
Norman Thelwell. Eyre-Methuen.
Enchanting portrait in words and
pictures of an English garden and
wild life sanctuary. Thelwell writes
magically of a cottage garden,
building pools, bridge and boathouse
and watching the world of nature day
by absorbing day.
-THE COLDEST WINTER IN
PEKING by Hsia Chih-Yen. W. H.
First ever novel to detail life inside
China today. Three momentous days
in Peking-despairs, hopes, terrors,
deprivations ofcitizens in the world's
most fascinating nation. Chilling
portraits of their political machine--
this is the way it is.
THE TALKING DOGS by Maurice
Rowdon. Macmillan. £3.95.
Incredible story of experiment to
communicate with degs, taught to tap
out whole sentences and reveal
knowledge and thoughts never before
suspected. They even impart adviceto
theirteacher-I was rivetted.
SCIENCE FICTION IN THE
MOVIES by Roy Pickard. Muller,
All you ever need to know about
stararf films, writers and directors of
some of most imaginative movies ever
made. Treasure house for sci-fi
addicts.
SIX AGAINST THE ROCK by Clark
Howard. Granada. £5.95
Superb, unput-
downable documentary
on incredible jail break
from Alcatraz in 1946 of
six desperate men who
held off guards, police,
coastguards and two
companies of Marines
for 41 hours. Also of
relentless, unfeeling
punishment in-the jail
of jails,
JAKE'S THING by
Kingsley Amis. Hutch-
Pursuit of sex in the
70's and waning virility
created with rapier wit
and sardonic observa-
tion.
STANLEY SHIVAS 7


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DURRANT'S
ECIVOUL,
LIVERPOOGECHO
ISSUE
JTRANEASHIRE
DATED
L JUST how much do dogs DON. He continues his story
understand about death, reli- of Elke and Belam, the re-
THE
glon and relncarnation?. markable canines who are
Well, their concepts may not the subject of hls book The
TALKING
be far removed from our own, Talking Dogs, whichis pub-
afes
according tol MAURICE ROW- lished to-day..
DOGS
Born again Elke the poodle
tells of life after death
ONE SeRL baked era one a deli- of always wenn with Ike tod Geive that Erem check she other effect tappings onme I than clearer Dorotby asked
We decided years and
aunts, our con- ead you Elke
death athat tahmesry
do we. mean to
with
LMPENE
Eooe versation
ver geis
for ber? tronde she Frau time.
died?" Eara I's death which was
Hellmater eeaned
sbe
YES.
and eight months
There missing
word for
began axe her two years
Marepnet
to tap:
TE had know- word ASDE
apother
Etke end she
word
ago? Do you
E Jedge God and end" and "if" botrereint whose En Darothy hop passed the ques- "What is it when Mclie
ahat evening Elke was
meaning was never estab- tion and, as Elke
my love?" gimost fn ber
then tapped 0 coaxed
ZOE
zu dowa
lished.
SCHWER for
for
ber I took
oame word tapping chis Ocbtha position ina Mami know upseE the
Eke REC groded But was clearly
each ae carefully. came schwer the (too difficult) DORLE
teoe was folloned "Do where we
alone with Keesha i
answer.
wbich clearly
tena
without
bens
Matrte LA
dunkle by
Were you
puppies, while the rest ecl
death to single unhesitatingly. "Do you mean dif- this
rendering of were
iem
Porous
Belam, Joneliness. evening The saw unfolding ficulo
once
F bomewithus. on
asked Ét you wods tap
years
she came
pad was
ber. do,
mvEgRe
Berchtesgaden
NISC
taer
ETIN
"When
SCHTTCNT
of even-
chree
mPW
Fare at
each She bad tapped the word
than rse more times you SCHAIN. The whole sen-
you ves."
inter-
for
BELA IMR DOD, which
E It
mean difticult our
died only your
GESTORBEN
for
eipertnc
she
Dorothy one. was.
stood ein zarter YES
THS
too
at at Tod
remember
Wtra OOCTEAN DARFE Z0 preted
(died).I showed to the If you tap, five Nebel mit eternisc
say more
WEN ELKE
sur- in
Hea
others silence, and there teant
echten Schiein (a soft
EXDIO for Belam immer mit prised to be tos wasa
Elke five times. with ebernal genuine
CMEF YES.
euch darf Weh zu ende this and scept Ithink imis had adeeper To make. question
tapped ER EAN
As formed
the words on
MEURE Ytor
tmy pad and she went on
war)
in ter deeply TOMORROW: Elke achtrgedant (or
three)
rdoetrv wee a
IKRE tor Tuley
other, astonishment. our spines ting-
three "Do years.
talked ROWDON
JOrES" mEANy
the tap-
2eart been the month
death began EXPLAINS Ekke
ZAA
we in
tbeybad
ness, and colmeran now
thing eay about Cod.
Elke hud already indicated 'WHY I
sepsnter) "understand
that sbe was aware of the
what Mr. was saying bench to
asked Belam: BELIEVE'
vEgno
"What you love more
Aboss Elke
pet
Was it another
TELOF
than San (theic
name for Frau Heil
20 ZART MATERI for
Elke kn nOWPHL
Ho seemed penplexed
Materia io
UBAN
ZZOKE
end sbe added: you
or soft
understand?" NO.
is a word
beger
love eomething leed in
right?" NO.
ENR
Do you
philosphical discus
uben
than Mamit"
meaning substance.
vEs
LE tapped
really mean
therefore
enucir.
mea scomed te to tlopped make out no who is (he)?"
learn, uben or prac. bis
con Gott Lcos)" she Sa deali
SLJE3
inym * Ao
way otidasung
Cutormtindrer-cufer
YES. "What next on a
think wordi" of when we
morn- M7 do say you
Ramsau were Nyam knows
UBER DIN BIS
about your being
ODEM ALLE (live by him At
TOT GEWESE
until breathing ends) aa
tapped. Alle CoMeedE FnEs to
SFER ZU ERKLEREN for
"vone," Ches and PIotr
doch gewesen schwer
and is had been very at
(indeed been
poetical word fur shortly before Bar
to explain).
did " that word rnacts also told she asoremned she her
bim? it rarely, if ever, an feel-
ia apuech.
time
daily
that was F Elke fr
reincarnation of many overheard
EE E
Fra CCOERNNg
SCHENTHIMI UND
or recelved ETEE a it,
E NGEL he tapped fur I was Frau FETME
ist schon im Hinunel wiud
dog Met: through Mantre
mit Engel (is beautiful I* aran died, midway Maurice Rowdon 1978.
with mgnie). ber Elke Publishrd by Marmillan
- hd
EETO
SanE
(London) Ltd., at £5.95 on
Tas
the diche cune hamr
wron own evening two September 14.
atuf ber
aPEs
We had bera dewi Rter


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A PLANK BRIDGE BY A POOL by
Norman Thelwell. Eyre-Methuen.
Enchanting portrait in words and
pictures of an English garden and
wild life sanctuary. Thelwell writes
magically of a cottage garden,
building pools, bridge and boathouse
and watching the world of nature day
by absorbing day.
-THE COLDEST WINTER IN
PEKING by Hsia Chih-Yen. W. H.
First ever novelto detail life inside
China today. Three momentous days
in Peking-despairs, hopes, terrors,
deprivations ofcitizens in the world's
most fascinating nation. Chilling
portraits of their political machine-
this is the way it is.
THE TALKING DOGS by Maurice
Rowdon. Macmillan. £3.95.
Incredible story of experiment to
communicate with dogs, taught to tap
out whole sentences and reveal
knowledge and thoughts never before
suspected. They eveni impart adviceto
theirteacher-I was rivetted.
SCIENCE FICTION IN THE
MOVIES by Roy Pickard. Muller,
All you ever need to know about
starar films, writers and directors of
some of most imaginative movies ever
made. Treasure house for sci-fi
addicts.
SIX AGAINSTTHE ROCK by Clark
Howard. Granada. £5.95
Superb, unput-
downable documentary
on incredible jail break
from Alcatraz in 1946 of
six desperate men who
held off guards, police,
coastguards and two
companies of Marines
for 41 hours. Also of
relentless, unfeeling
punishment in the jail
of jails,
JAKE'S THING by
Kingsley Amis. Hutch-
Pursuit of sex in the
70's and waning virility
created with rapier wit
and sardonic observa-
tion.
STANLEY SHIVAS T


/ COTIN I - - :
MONDE
AC SLEY A
guide
ppa
mam's
tallx a
wonderful things go on In Bolam, a Saluki, and sama test occurred to sus- (oh, creepy thought 1) far from nature (includ- old cat Smokey would
the animal world I am Elke the Poodle--at their picious little me), but they 0 von infiuence our Ing our own nature)." suddenly stare alertly at
prepared to admit-but home in Southern Ger- wouldn't buy it. Which minds ?
With our minds care- seemingly empty spaces
WHAT are we to make this ?
many where they livo did nothing to dispel In a riveting essay at fully circumscribed by in tho room (what on
of a claim that two Tho claim Is seriously with their teacher, douht.
the end of the book the reason, he asks, have wa eart h is going on
dogs have been taught made in a book called Fraulein Dorothy Meyou That the dogs tap author argues that 'our blocked out other areas of there ?); and the waysho
to 'talk' to people, 'The Talking Dogs' (Mac- In palnstaking detall answers to questlons claim to superiority over consciousness, othor could send telepathic
using an alphabet of millan, £5-95), and I con- he documents the paw- seems certain (so havo animals rests on our hav- enorgy fields of an invi- messages from hor empty
taps with their paws? foss that my first thought tapplng Intervlews on many circus animals
Ing developed the brain sible world still intact in plate in tho kitchon. -
And not only talk in was to chuck it at the cat many sublects over many there was even 'a tapping moro than any other the animal kingdom? would rise and open a tin
constructed sentences, but and say : 'On, come on, months. Each lettor of horse' In Shakespeare's species. But is reason 'Western man is still without knowing why.
also speak English and conto on I Next we'll be the alphabet is given a day, as mentioned in necessarily intolligent? perhaps waiting to roach Suddenly, I tell you,
German; solve compli- asked to believe that littlo specific number of taps Love Labour's Lost'), but Is intelligence necessarily an adoquate animal level goose plmples began to
cated equations, do square dogs laugh (pax Fred and the dogs commun- how does one explain the mental ?
In spiritual and psychic riso on my neck.
roots and expound on Bassett) and cows Jump Icato by tapping thelr tapped thoughts of Elko 'The western (Chielly powers, while deceiving declded not to chuck the
their own reincarnation over tho moon.'
thoughts into thelr and Belam ?
19th-century) view of the himsolf that the cultiva- book at hor alter all. -
and the nature of death- But I didn't. I began to. teacher's hand.
Involuntary signals. human organism as a tion of the brain puls went over to hor, stroked
'a soft dark mist with road it again, There was A Swiss TV producer from the teachor to give physical apparatus gov- him far beyond the ani- her head ard sald : 'Now
eternal gonuine lustre, something creepy about tried to persuade them to the required number of erned by the brain, sup- mal kingdom.'
then, Smokey, are you all
remarked a Poodle poet It.
use a large, doggy type- taps? Or could it be plied with sense messages Psychio powers? In- right ? Is there anything
called Elke!
The author, Maurice writer Instead of their telepathy? Can our by the nervous system, visible worlds? I began I can do for you at all?
That many strange and Rowden, visited the dogs teacher's hand (and the domestio pots read and sooms to havo taken us to think of the way our Just sand me a message.'
Daily Mail, Monday, September 18, 1978


Lessons began with Elke, 000
an esgerandaptpupil Les-
sons started when she was
hardly a year old. She
sis
wasn't too keen at first.
They also joined in family
But, gradually, she life.
learned the alphabet and
began doing sums with a
One morning Belam
smoothness which walked into Fraulein
astonished Fraulein Meyer. Meyer's livingroom where
Belam joined the classas the radio was blaring end, a
an interested observer, but tapped "Ouch ear."
was soon into taking
lessons.
Fraulein Meyer asked:
Maurice Rowdon's "Is the music too loud?"
account of the dogs' train- Belam tapped: "Yes."
ing makes fascinating and "Shall I turn it off?"
instructive readingfor any- "Yes," replied Belam.
one tempted to "talk" to
their own dogs. Even more
interesting, however, are
the reports of the dogs'con-
versations, logged by
Dorothy Meyer.
One day, Fraulein Meyer
He, himself, was present had three puppies with her
when Elke was asked about at a new school and Belam
death and, to the their was there, a star pupil who
astonishment, knew whatit looked at the class with a
meant Theirspines tingled benevolent superiority.
even more when Elke tap-
out that death was
The little ones dabbed at
pedi with eternal genuine the air with their
25 ENPGENPMPENENT a L P S R
clumsy paws, sometimes soft,
toppling over from the tap
ping position they! had been
taught to adopt Fraulein
Meyer was having trouble
with one called Abdul, who
refused to siti in thet tapping
position.
She asked Belam how she
could help Abdul.
Belam answered: "Ten-
derly guide."


FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1978
EVENING NEWS 15
story of talking dogs . . - the experts have their say
WHEN I first went to
THE Talking Dogs is one
see the talking dogs of
of the most remarkabie
Berchtesgaden I ex-
animal books ever
It cannot
two
Give
to find clever
pected
written.
animals trained on
dog
Some accept it. Others
circus lines.
reject it. But nobody can
I observed them and
put it down unfinished.
their teacher Dorothy
I should admit I am almost
a professlonal doubter.
Meyer very closely. I was
bone
and
don't believa in
just
determined not to be
saucers. fortune telling, flying rein-
fooled.
carnation or unlucky black
Gradually I realised that
cats.
they were tapping out real
And if I see Uri Geller
sentences that were, as far
bend another 50 spoons l'm
as I could tell, of their own
he'll
talk!
still not going to believe
telepathy
invention.
did It.
What convinced me that
structure and
Additionally, a lifetime
I was in the presence of
sensory
brain spent closa to dogs persuades
Any word a dog knows can
thinking creatures was living
similar to our own.
me that dogs are dogs and
be used to trigger off the ex-
with them from day to day,
The usual argument not four-legged humans.
pected reaction.
going for walks and watch-
against animal intelligence, is I accept that dogs com-
Even so. nearly all dog
ing them tap in all sorts of
that the telepathic principle municate. A dog with a bone
owners believe their own dogs
situations in the woods, at
is at work.
soon tells another dog not
understand speech.
the zoo, in someone's home.
They said it about the to touch.
Of course, he understands
When you live with a per-
famous stallion "clever Hans" He needs no speech for
"good dog" because you make
son you get to know pretty
in Berlin before the First this. Nor does he need it with
it sound caressing.
quickly whether there is an
World War, and they said human Leave beings. a
And what you called him
élement of fake or untruth-
it in Virginia, about the
strange dag with
when he offends sounds like
fulness in them.
remarkable horse Lady an unschooled human and he
a whiplash.
What I saw convinced me
MAURICE
Wonder, who died in 1957. will explain when he is
But logic cuts no ice when
that these dogs had hopes by
But how could telepathy hungry or wants exercise, by STANLEY
we talk about our own dog.
and sorrows like all of us,
have operated when Elke or Of course he can under-
Which fact alone
and were no less sensitive to ROWDON
Belam suddenly wanted to stand some things we say DANGERFIELD that for
means who
the terrors and the annoy-
AMEREA
"say" something in the woods because he connects a certain
questions every the person behind
ances of life than we are. their ages and solve mathe- about another animal neither sound If 1 with a happening.
The Talking facts there are
and
While with Elke Belam matical problems, aren't Dorothy nor I had seen,
say "car" to my dogs
Dogs
I became convinced that the using their minds fully.
and while our minds were on it means Sit" an outing.
proves the the point. Whatever ten able who adore this remark-
difference between their in- They are mechanical, entirely different subjects?
means something to did the performer opposite. said, his dog I story. with a true but un-
telligence and ours was not following the cues of their And what about the many them.So "bone", does "dinner", "cat",
characteristic finish
so. much quality as use.
trainer, in the. movement of occasions when the dogs
"no", "bed" and a If he said sit the dog stood.
story.
Their whole approach to a hand or the whip.
an urgent
score of other things.
If he said quiet the dog I once flew out of a South
the world was different from
tapped
MUST They could as easily have barked and so on.
American country as revo-
ours.
But even this is a sign of (their codeword for "I want been trained to understand He had merely taught the lution broke out.
intelligence. It requires to leave the room")? Were Greek or, as in Belam and to beg when he said sleep.
Their ears were open to symbolisation, which in turn Dorothy and I planting this Elke's case, German.
dog Jump on the table when he we It took was frightening off a but
the most distant sounds, requires a nervous system, desire without knowing it? A theatre act - once saw said down.
thought
their eyes toola scene
appeared in my brain. "My
with the briefé
of a
dog Two is dead." I found out
glance and
noses
that days later
had
sought out th on the
TELL US
my favourite away dog without
wind.
ABOUT YOUR CLEVER DOG
indeed passed
And their
worked
warning at that time some
faster than
would READERS are rushing in their hundreds to tell us how words-to A Talking Dogs," Evening News, New Carmelite 6,000 miles away. I
prove in
€ that clever THEIR dogs are. If you think your dog is
House, London EC4Y 1AQ (Comp.). Letters must arrive
So there here am accepting
they had
with intelligent, worite and teli us what makes you SO sure.
by Monday. Include an SAE and we will endeavour to
that was some super-
a glance th
tth And send us a picture of him you have one. For each return photographs. The Editor's
natural communication be-
decision is final.
Iong gaze
letter we publish we will pay 139 and the best letter
alternative prizes, no correspondence. Employees of
tween pet yet myself and to special accept
Circas.
wins a year's supply Hap, the new. dog food made by Associated Newspapers Group Ltd. and members of their that living declining dogs can be
tèll Pedigree Petfoods. WOLE NOW-not more than 250
families are not eligible.
to talk.
taught


18 EVENING NEWS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1978
TUI JESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1978 EVENING NEWS 19
QUESTION: WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHOW THE WORLD THAT ANIMALS HAVE FEELINGS LIKE HUMANS?'
DAY TWO OF
THE TAPPING CODE
Numaper Letteabet
Elke
out YES'
THE
TALKING
tapped
DOGS
our
and
lessons
by MAURICE ROWDON
began
21=CH
of each word
teaching to lapr was six week bef fore lea Hodhe avplc to
hav
22=SCH
AND HOW YOU
Ae UE impossible. ack and
yese
WIN
arsumnint
CAN A
Her
March, 1974
ith WS
year old. she Wiwn was how tap YES
GREAT PRIZE
- LE cianter
began, E
took ed little 10
imte wild's buld APToN
hav does
fact Ger the leu er he coula your a
giving too
MASIDE
gor
totaptrovez
son
top
SEr
maNy
voula have
Eike
or none at
made her.
ber
is the code Dorothy her
ere and
taps
tap than the numl
apils,
Eaddbct ry
tell out
Thought
bitchs
Tto haTL ent ds
suber to dire
nore
at per.
en this
d0974 to mark
BrT
makes su ure he
May
sue
three tin wit Whe
you
aistir
sch E OarEas is LE
the paw the was Sand
ew rd at ane lett
us pict of
tor her
the
we one
NEER
Fight ples units
with
ton
the
nen sh
She ted new
us. and
fear nene toretab Fr LF it had
aba for eks
oul
-a E
eaed der R
iffed awageiner her
etu
ace
alone tail clearl timé for
beg the
der dog
ation and
nd M
so L
Elk
Affection
tee
her.
Dy 1e
Brst
E ine
0 TOMORROW:
eac
the Saluki tells
story


DONCASTER EVENING POST
14SEP 1978
DONCASTER,
ISSUE
YORKSHIRE
DATED
your
pet
smooth
haired
talker?
HAVE you heard
RON
the radio was blaring and
about the 'dog who
walked into a living
apeaes the
too Meyer asked: "Is
room and askëd for the
THOMPSON
Belam music tapped: loud?" "Yes".
radio to be turned off
"Shall I turn it off?"
becouse it was too
"Yes" replied Belam,
Toudipa
which sums with astonished a smoothness Fraulein
One day, Fraulein Meyer
It's not a joke.
Meyer.
Had at a three
with
Fraulein Dorothy Meyer,
Belam joined the çlass as was new PUR3PI a
and Raber
who taught aSaluki named an interested observer, but looked there, star pupil who
Bélam to communicate with was soon into taking benevolent at/the class with a
her. claims It happened.
lessons."
superiority.
She claims a lot more, Maurice Rowdon's account
The little ones dabbed. at
too, according to author of the dogs' training makes the air with their soft,
Maurice Rowdon, who has fascinating and
clumsy paws, sometimes
written
book, "The reading for anyone instructive toppling over from the
Talking Dogrt (Maemillan, to "talk" to their own
tapping position they had
£5,95) about the Saluki and
beèn
eTened
Even more
taught adopt.
a poodle named.
who however, are the
Fraulein Meyer was
were
to CER- by the
réports
with
dogs' cônvérsations onita having trouble
one
Fraulein EanRgeE by tapping
by Dorothy
called Abdul, who refused
their paws.
himself, was Meyer.
sit in the tapping posi.
present
Mged
For example "three taps
Elke
Hon
with the right-paw means when death, and, was asked to about
'She asked Belam how she
Three taps with the astonishment, knew
could help Abdul.
means no.
let
VAlE
pay
mean, Their spines- tingled
Belam
answered:
hundreds Fraulein of hours" Meyer teaching spent evén more when Elke "Tenderly guide."
the dogs an alphabet of "a tapped soft out dark that mist death with was
taps.
S ASRI ubben
eternal genuine lustre."
SE . % School
similar They question, asked Belam
His
was "One rests
They learned todo sums in a Rowdon reports N
"and, then, to tape lettes, that the
words;" and finally, complete questions adors
about
sentences.
each
adee
other, and
the
If Fraulein' Meyer was raising of pupples
their
Aasy
ahle guess the sentence training. All from. the dogs'
after a. word or two, then. point. of view,
the dogs didn't both to
tinish it.
Maurice Rowden went to
'Too loud'
Bérehtesgaden. once
notorious mountain hide as Hitler's out,to see life. They also joined in family
Fraulein Meyet, and the
One morning
dogs.
walked into Frauelin Belam
He fourd. that she was Meyer's living room
a former schoolteacher, who
where
had been asked by Frau
Hilde Heilmaier, the owner
of, the dogs, to, set upa
school for the animals.
Frau
Heilmaier
was
inte enselv
interested


MACMILLAN
11 Northburgh
Street
London ECIV OJL
DURRANT'S
a SURREY ADVERTISER
GUILDFORD,
ISSUE SEP 1978.
SURREY.
BSYEJ18
Talk to the animals
THE title of this book should be
The first drawback is that all
"self-explanatory except that
THE TALKING DOGS by Maurice Rowdon (Macmillan. £5.95).
the questions were, naturally;
anyone seeing it must automa-
put in German. so each is
tically suppose that the dogs Maurice Rowdon,she'a author, expectancy of its owner in horses are relatively intelligent, accompanied by a translation,
used words likeat talking parrot. spent several montis studying knowing when to stop.
some being more intelligent which tends to confuse any.
That is not sO.
the lengthy transcripts Dorothy Rowdon dismisses this than others, and all capable of N reader not accomplished in that
The principal characters are Meyer had made bf conversa- explanation as. nonsense and. greater understanding than we language. fact that This is made worse by
Dorothy Meyer, of Berchtes- tions with her dogs. Ha also. endeayours to reinstate Clever normally credit them with. the
the dogs misspell oro
gaden, in Bavaria, and her two studied the previous accounts of Hans and other talking animals It would be hard to
abbreviate had be most words, so there
dogs. Elke, a poodle, and. the hundred or more so-called that have received the brunt of with his contention. also, quarrel that if them to to further find interrogation
Belam. a saluki. Dorothy, talking dogs and horses that. scientific scepticisms.
.the human race were less did of mean out what they.
apparently. had spent a year or have been reported, including, The text of the present book conceited and had a greater Rowdon, to say. Dorothy, and
two teaching the dogs a sort of inevitably, Clever Hans, the is conçerned with quo- sympathy for animals the world
this misspelling
Morse code, dogs
horse that could answer que- largely
down to ned dogs having used
tapping stions, even do simple arithme- tations of- conversations bet- wouldb be abetter place in which phonetics. What is certain is
with a paw on er hand tospell: tic, by
the answer, ween Dorothy and her dogs, to to live.
that it imparts to the book a
out letters and numbers.
with his tapping hoof. out
which Rowdon adds his own The main theme of the book measure of tedium.
Thus, there were four taps for Clever Hans was subject to comments and moralisings. is. however, that a few dogs, at It was, however, when I
A, 25 for X and other letters scrutiny by scientists who came Some oft these one can butagree least.havebeen taughta code, that the dogs were able not read
with.
only.
rata. "No" was three taps FaPTO to the conclusion that the horse
sorofcompliatedaphabe.by to calculate without hesitation
the left paw. "Yes" three taps was being guided, uncons- There can be no doubt, for the use of which they can the square root ofa four-figure
with the right paw (shades of ciously, by its owner. Thus, in example, that a dog that has communicate sensibly and number as well as to answer
jable-turning!). One sentence, reply to a question the horse lived closely with human beings deliberately with human questions about God, death and
used by the dogs, consisting of would start pawing the ground for many years must have beings. Upon this the book the life hereafter that even my
three words, required 259 taps and would stop at the correct acquired a considerable voca- must standor fall, according to willingness to keep an open
and would have required, on number guided bya flick of the bulary for words understood whether the reader finds the mind came under severe strain.
my estimate, at least three eyelid, a slight movement oft the even ifit cannot say them. One evidence presented acceptable
minutes to transmit correctly. hand or the general air of can accept, also, that dogs and orunacceptable.
Maurice Burton


11 Northburgh
DURRANT I S Street
London EC1V OJL
EVENING GAZETTE
COLCHESTER,
ISSUE
ESSEX
DATED /5s Sepz
IQD0
DUMB ANIMALS?
MEET A WOMAN
WHOSE DOGSTALK
The Talking Dogs by Maurice Rowdon, Mac-
millan, £5.95.
-HAVE you heard about the dog who walked into a
living room and asked for the radio to be turned off
because it was too loud? It's not a joke.
Fraulein Dorothy Meyer
who taught a saluki named
Belam to communicate with
claims it happened.
Mande claims a lot more, too,
according to author Maurice
Rowdon, who has written
about the class of dogs she
taught to talk by
Fraulein Meyer by tapping
their paws.
with For the example: right Three taps
Une morning, a dog,
yes. Three taps MIEN the means left Meyer's Belam, walked living into Fraulein
paw means no.
the radio was blaring room where and
hundreds Fraulein of hours Meyer spend
ouch ear."
the dogs an alphabet teaching of taps. unpensdeies the music too Meyer esked: " Is
They learned to do sums tapped: Yes." loud?" Shall Belam
and, words, then, and, finally, to tap complete letters, Belam. turn it off?" Yes,' replied
sentences. Maurice Rowdon went to 'had One day, Fraulein Meyer
Berchtesgaden, once at a three new school puppies and with her
mountain notorious hide-out, as Hitler's to see was there, a star Belam who
former schoolteacher looked the class PAPIN a
Fraulein Meyer and the benevolent Fraulein superiority.
dogs.
troubie Meyer was
*His account of the dogs' having called Abdul, who with refused one to
training and instructive makes reading fascinating for sit in the tapping position.
anyone tempted to talk couldi She heip asked Abdui. Belam how she
to Even their own more dogs. interesting,
Belam answered: Ten-
however, are the reports of derly,guide."
the dogs' conversations
logged by Dorothy Meyer.


111 Northburgi
Sireet
DURRANT'S London ECIVOJL
EVENING SENTINEL
20 EEPT 1978
ISSUE
HANLEY STAFFCAOSHIRE
DATED
BOOKLOOKS SAS
What she
was told by
MOST pet owners have
been heard to re-
mark at one time or
her talkative
another: "He under-
stands every word." Or
"Look, he's telling us
something."
pet dogs
Every Rover and Rex, views with a standard e om plex mathematical
Honey and Heidie haye. in poodie bitch called Elke II.
to apparent emo
the past, imparted some
a Saluki male called
retorts from the
message of
EoMPA
great import Eouamt
animals ranging from. love
their doting owners.
It tells
of how through fear to anger.
Carine intelligence has their
Fraule.n
never
45PLA09
been dispute. One Dorothy Meyer, spent the
In German
has only to toer around at better part 18 months The "answer" ques-
the working dogs in the teaching the doel to tap out tions
police force,
German, (transla-
edoge
which become or the guide dogs of messages paws. Not with their "yes" tions a provided) and usé as
sight ess pecple, to beau sure and "no," Bareico complex system.. basic alphabet, a phonetic
of_that.
sentences.
Yet can a doy communi- Even more
the As the' interviews pro-
cate she, ut our levei? Cin he. or author sets out distine gressed, the author dis-
originate
amprtbets
thougnt and guish thoughts and ide.t çovered distinct character
convey that thought to us. originatedby the dogs then in both animals, with all
Interviews
selves, rather than answe:s the traitsand idiosyncracies
to set questions.
we associate with human Can
Maurice ve Rowden in his Fra u lein Meyer
dogs
This bouncing poodle eertainly
book The Tuking Doys" through more than sot FIRE 1 is. not suggested that
scems to passing om joyous message.
thinks they çan, And he has lessons well documented Fido, asleep in the corner, De y2ig
compiied a tormidable slab and taped" - bring the is capable of
asking
of statistics to drive home an'mals up to te standards
make seeuX a cup of
the_point.
in the book.
te bal the book does pose
The book, published this AUTS the beautiful a number of interesting
month by MacMiNan London Bayarian countryside as its points not léast, that a dog
(price £3.95), doeuments setting, book deals withy can be trained to communi-
interviews yes, in ter r- "chats" tbe the dogs
cate in a way, we under-
1A frons stand,
Whether the trainer and
author have made too
enthusiastic an interpreta-
aeetapere
pshuct-Narthburgh;
tion
clever?
your pet
the tappings
Streett
another
GAr DURRANT S
Have
instances of intelligent
will
London ECTV O00
birds
naee
have.
lensarel
AVLPOILE FRRn TendteN us you Wewill themselves have their own
pay T for each letler published-and there will bea interpretations of the statis-
special prize for the writer of the letter the Editor tics and comments made in
considers the best.
the book. As for me, when
SURREY ADVERTISER
Letters ideally should not be more than 200 words. my own dog taps on the
Envelopes should be addressed, to the Editor, Evening door I know exactly what
GUILDFORD,
Sentinel. Northeliffe
Stoke-on-Treni,
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House, Hanley,
she means.
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Talk to the animals
THE title of this book shouldbe
THE
Maurice Rowdon
The first drawbactis that alt
except that
TALKING DOGS by
(Macmillan. £5.95)
the questions werr, naturalby
Hcevenyr anyone seeingi must automa-
pus in German. ser each ist
tically suppose that the dogs Maurice Rowdon,pheauthor. expectancy of 'its owner, in horses are relatively intelligent, accompanied- by a translation;
used wordslikeat talkingp parrot.
several mortis studying knowing when to stop.
some being more
which tends to. confuse any
Thati isnot so.
mnenen lengthy transcripts Dorothy Rowdon dismissest this than others, and alf aNra capable reader nota accomplished.in that
The principal characters are Meyer had made pr conversa- explanation as nonsense ands greater. understanding than language. Thisismade worse bys
Meyer, of Berchtes- tions with her dogs. Healso. endeayours to reinstate Clever nerinally credit thea with, : the factthatthe dogsmisspell lore
studied the
accountsof
penr gaden, Bavaria, and her two the hundred previous or so-called Hans and other talking animals le would be hard to quartet abbreviate to most words, there
dogs. Elke. a poodle. and talking dogs and: more horses that. that have received the brunt of. with his contention. also, thatif of had be to further interrogation
Belam. a saluki. Dorothy, have been reporteti, including, scientific scepticisms.
.the human race were less did them mean to find say. out what they.lt
apparently. had spenta yearor inevitably, Clever Hans, the The text of the present book conceited and had- a
Dorothy, "and"
two teaching the dogsa sort of
greater Rowdon, this misspeling.
Morse code, dogs
horse that could nswer que- largely of- concerned with. sympathy for animals the world: down to ned dogs having used
with a paw on herh hand Jhaspor to:
stions, even do simple arithme- tations çonversations. ter tolive. wouldbeabetter placeiny which, phonetics. Whai is certain is
out letters and numbers.
tic, tapping oul the answer ween which Dorothy Rowdon and adds her his dogs, own to
that it imparts to the book a
with 1 hoof.
The mai theme the book measure of tedium.:
Thus. therev were four tapsfor Clever Hans subject to comments and moralisings. is, however, thata cora dogs, at Itv was, however,
A,25for) Xa and other letters pro scrutiny by scienuits who came Someoft with. these onecan butagree least. havel been taughtacode,a that the dogs were able when not fread
rata. "No" was three taps with to the.conclusionthat the horse
wonofcomplcacdaphabe.ty to calculate without. hesitation" only
the left paw. "Yes" three taps was being. guided. uncons- There can be no doubt, for- the use éf which 'they can thes square root ofa four-figure
with the night (shades of ciously, by its owser. Thus, in example, that" a dog that has' communicate sensibly and number as well as to answer
jable-turning!). One sentence.
to a questign the horse lived closely with human beings deliberatély with human
about God,death and
used by the dogs, consisting of rpk. start the ground for many years must have beings, Upon this the book life hereafter that even. my
three words. required 259 and would stop' the
acuere
taps
Sopet correct acquireda considerable voca- musts standor fall, according to willingness to an
have
und would required.on number guided bya Ilick ofthe bulary for words understood whether the reader finds the mind came under keep severe strain, open
my estimate. at least three eyelid, slight movement tofthe eveni ifi it cannot say them. One evidence presented acceptable
minutisibitainemut.opretly, hand or the gegeral air of can accept, also, that dogs and or unacceptable.
Maurice Burton


11 Northburgh
DURRANT'S Street
London ECIV OJL
EVENING TIMES
GLASGOW
ISSUE
DATED 3 crsept
LLELEAERID
TUMEES
Die
can
a h to
our
I BOOKSHELF
Qmmals
i HackHouse
a lew Ouly now Iiealise
AA IA A Sectrce -
"LsLl touc. There we might have that Maurice Rowdon (Mac-
to whom ied by communi- milan, 13.951.
southern Germany und
aly to show the carly lapping. Since hit he tells the tory what they have "said" to
vaii ing stich to
years of this of
their
century
Elke, 4 poodle
teacher and other
litn ust. to the
thee have been and Belam,d
bitch, humans Juring the last
ty ior a
something like 102 lp- who
saluki male, live yeurs.
the peregii- poli ping dnimals in various lions carry with on conversa- Indeed.
pails of the Western
humans hy
about the onh
workt horses,
tapping codle messages trouble
this book
mic lisgent dops, and at ponies, mntotheir h uds.
is that the detail is so
cats.
least iwo Yes, I1 sounds datt, meticulous that ir's i1
uld i lake
but Mr Rowdon
danger oi
ily
lethnt
thes information into
goes
becoming
fron 4 temarkhable book, about the uumost details boring Of times.
"The Talking Dogs." by dog, how dese Iwo World course, I've sevn the
Werr trained in Horse at Famous Kelvin Hall Talking
in other circuses. and It
counts and does other
tricks, and the theory is
that the trainer is giving
it certain signs to show
it when to stop tapping.
But this account of what
Elke and Belam discuss
is véry different indeed.
There are instances,
for example, of when the
dogs have taken the
initiative and put new
ideas to the trainers.
ENZESNFPERTUENIOKDAS:


11 Northburgh
Street
London ECIV OJL
DURRANT'S
EVENING TIMES
GLASGOW
ISSUE
DATED 3orseph
(WEEKEND TIMES
can
to our
talk
BOOKSHELF
By Jack House
animals!
RANMI AAEY -
I'VE trained a few Only now I realise that Maurice Rowdon (Mac- southern Germany and
cats in my. time. There we might have communi- millan, £3.95).
what they have "said" to
was Pushkin-to whom cated by tapping. Since In it he tells the story their teacher and other
I needed only to show the early years of this of Elke, a poodle bitch, humans during the last
my walking-stick to century there have been and Belam, a saluki male. fiveyears.
have him rush to the something like 102 tap- who carry on conversa- Indeed, the only
door ready for a peregri- ping animals in various tions with humans by trouble about this book
nation round the poli- parts of the Western tapping code messages is that the detail is so
cies.
world - horses, ponies, into their hands.
meticulous that it's in
He was so intelligent dogs, and at least two Yes, it sounds daft, danger of becoming
that sometime es I cats.
but Mr Rowdon goes boring at times.
imagined that he would I take this information into the utmost details Of course, I've seen the
suddenly say something from a remarkable book, about how these two World Famous Talking
to me.
"The Talking Dogs," by dogs were trained in Horse at Kelvin Hall and
in other circuses. It
counts and does other
tricks, and the theory is
that the trainer is giving
it certain signs to show
it when to stop tapping.
But this account of what
Elke and Belam discuss
is vèry different indeed.
There are instances,
for example, of when the
dogs have taken the
initiative and put new
ideas to the trainers.


MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1978 EVENING NEWS 17.
STARTING TODAY... The extraordinary story that raises the question: Are dogs more human than we ever imagined?
- DC GS
dogs
with
THE
TALKING
Can communicate human beings as
equals? Are they much cleverer than we.
have been
thought ? really understand
kind
Do they
They
what
taught
are saying ? These are the questions raised in
remarkable new book, THE TALKING DOGS,
Morse
News
which
code
serialised the Evening this week.
doggy
We present the evidence author Maurice
Rowdon discovered when he went to Germany to
experiments
their
of animal teacher
out
see the
Dorothy
they tap
thoughts
Meyer who claimed she had taught a poodle and
a saluki to "talk," by use of a complicated
of paw
code.
and
routine taps, like a doggy Morse
feelings
Rowdon arrived as a sceptic, and left, weeks
later, convinced dogs had, and can express, the
whole gamut of human emotions.
o. We have placed all the author's evidence in the
hands of Stanley Dangerfield, one of the world's
leading experts on dogs. His verdict on The
Talking Dogs will appear later this week. What
he has to say will surprise you.
o There's a chance for you to have your say, too.
Already we have heard from one reader who saw
a Labrador able to play dominoes-using paw
tapping to indicate which piece to play. Write
and tell us what you think about talking. dogs.
0 And your dog can join in, too, to win a year's
supply of dog food See below.
MAURICE
ROWDON
WHEN I first met scratch-with only printed
Elke II, the Stand- records tappings, of prencts from animal or so
ard poodle bitch,
to on.
and Belam, the bedors.to had
Saluki male, on a in doubt- alt the
hot Septem iber
shock
afternoon at Salz-
came.
burg airport, they.
been
were sitting waiting
for me with their
teacher.
at. antmals as
Elke's white fur was
that
dazzling in the remark-
ably clear, mountain-
reflected were sunlight. round and Her
Dorothy Meyer, above, teacher of the talking dogs, interprets as Belam, the saluki, taps out a messape in her palm with his paw. Poodle Elke 11, right, welcomed author Rowdon in the same way.
eyes
attentive, black and vivaciously
HR Sch=22 taps. Then she word to be tapped agaln. viction-rather as child- Then begins the slow effort dimculties sometimes terse, but strictly In Hne
side, Belam,
held out her hand for the It was generally clear ren, bubbling over with of concentrating on the stood in their way. with their different per-
dogs to tap
had been
Who'sa
clever.
bonier.
some the
Into.
when word
something to say and too word to tapped.
Undoubtedly the dogs sonalities.
of two
had
Elke's message for me completed because the dog excited to compose it pro- Sometimes there tapped letters. But wasn't Also, I was to see much
tha
was firm and unhesitat- would make some move- perly, supply with their long pauses between one there an element of over- more evidence of their in-
eyes - delictously
ment of rellet or excite- eyes and expresslons what letter and another, while free interpretation on
the
then?
fur.
than just
boy
came nine, ten and or pause for longer thelr words short of. the
to lose
"hnts
ment,
seems
Dorothy's part?
Hurene tap. They ar
which, I found
track he or she
far
usual.
three taps
than
dor what
Would these tappings work tul neouha
not,
that
far
aoturtes
Hideout
MLOn. consulting the alpha- After reminding me
wants to Bay. He gazes turn out to be mostly a
quicker than the
l1st, made DER. Then the dogs spelt phonetically
even nods asleep. to be jumble of letters from
never
way. doEN we
and three, for ZR. This on
thread seems
sometimes
roundn
heard a
which she chose-indeed,
had cottage was followed by 13, 20,16,
shpsy
the
win
2eg
dogs where 12B. lastly Ave, sehr Recyon Pare is
to Moht however long the half-constructed or
your clever dog to
LOceT
tençes
jens
help make
Aru
back
a CEMaT
always_returns unless he's
were
us more 250
ageror
to the
an excited look
Arst
known
a ran DER 1S2 SER
taps. of the eyé.
iop
the dogs madeo that
was a hot, exhilarat-
back re-
about
and
Pause
great
Precise
your too, If
Relief
their
ARENCRNE
riter
one most bet was
have
rarely met
s certain i
Bhe then. them
laid to rest
SnE
Dorothy's method was tbe
into
postion
at as
each
MuetARi
enquire after word
toee
as AiRters
the
as I
Mrtne and Belam.
out
the
dog
to at the
add
have been
such
Neung
the
way
witnessed
and
1AQ
few
Fees
dAYS
answer
was the dogs them- into her
the
emenes
taps,
for the
carried
a DpeE
asked
that con- without overbalancing. say, though technical precise even
Eator No
ando
FoMeNcOn
imii
yet
on September
Primptoy
Mevere
Ltd., or
from TOMORROW: ELKE
POODLE
THE
LEARNS TO COUNT UP TO 50
their are ellgible.


Rerienss
Talking Prys


PAGE: 2. PSYCHICNEWS, OCTOBER: 28, 1978
These dogs 'converse'
with their owners
"The Talking Dogs,' ' by
Maurice Rowdon (Macmillan
Books reviewed
SINCE other animals have like
ourselves a brain, a nervous
system and senses, they must be
capable of perceiving, thinking
and communicating.
Ift they were merely automata,
it would be pointless to equip
them with a complex marshal-
ling of faculties designed to co-
ordinate response to environ-
ment.
Yet many people argue that
oniy man has reason and refuse
to admit the possibility of true
intelligence in other species.
It is a view peculair to our
modern western culture.
It springs inevitably from a
materialistic philosophy which
even denies the existence of
mind itself, and regards the be-
haviour of all living things as W.H.MACKINTOSH
merely a matter of conditioned
reflexes.
The investigation of the an- These have included
imal mind in order to establish
horses,
an intelligible dialogue between ponies, dogs and at. least two
man and his fellow-creatures is cats. However, in this connec-
not entirely new.
tion no mention is made of such
extremely intelligent species as
Human language used apes and dolphins.
No doubt most readers have Teaching a dog to tap requires
heard of such pioneers in this training it in the first place tos sit
field as Wilheim von Ostern and upright, with its body properly
Karl Krall who successively balanced, thus leaving one paw
owned the remarkabie horse free for tapping without strain.
known as "Clever Hans."
Incredible as it may seem, the
This book is concerned with teacher talks to the dog and
two dogs, one a poodle bitch shows it by example how many
called Elke and the other a times it must tap with its paw to
saluki male named Belam. Their indicate a particular letter of the
owner is Hilde Heilmaier and alphabet.
their teacher Dorothy Meyer.
Great care shown
They live in Austria and But what about the
Bavaria with Pantherthe cat.
the communications? quality It seems
There is nothing extraor- the dogs not only answer ques-
dinary about these dogs except tions put to them, but indicate to
thatt they can communicate with their teacher by certain move-
human beings, using human ments and looks when they
language as the means.
want to say something them-
In this case the language is seives.
mainly German though they can Long pauses between letters
also "talk" in English.
aref frequent in which thea animal
Done by their paws
appears to lose concentration.
Nevertheless the thread of the
How is it done? The dogs tap conversation is subsequently
with their paws a specific taken up without any loss of
number of times for each letter meaning.
ofthe alphabet.
Maurice Rowdon noticed that
The spelling seems to be the dogs seemed to take great
phonetic and the arrangement care with what they were tap-
of words in a sentence is often ping, trying to express them-
inverted.
selves as clearly and succinctly
Consequently, the order of ast possible.
words appears to be unnatural, Apparently they knew pre-
which makes the meaning not cisely what they wanted to say,
always clear at a giance.
though barriers not of their own
It is interesting to note that making sometimes stood in the
since the beginning of this cen- way of proper expression.
tury, there have been about 102 I suppose many readers like
animals in different parts of the myself have often talked.tq.an-
worid able to commt un nicate animal manduy VI ish
through tapping with human sation,cocid becomea me
beings
ingful dialogue of the
which.we hold. with oti
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI human beings.
How much we could learn and
ANIMAL HEALING
how good it would be for our,
SANCTUARY
selves to have our kinship with
all animals brought emphati-
willtunctionat
cally to our attention in this
BLACKHEATH HEALING CENTRE
manner!
Kidbrooke' Grove;5E3
1123N6i med Sylvia Broadw od)
Are we superior?


FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1978
EVENING NEWS 15
story of talking dogs -. the experts have their say
WHEN I first went to
THE Talking Dogs is one
see the talking dogs of
porap of the most remarkabie
Berchtesgaden I ex-
00G animal books ver
It cannot
Give
to find two clevér
written.
peçted
chn
animals trained
dog
Some accept it. Others
circus lines.
reject it. But nobody can
I observed them and
put it down unfinished.
their teacher Dorothy
I should admit I am almost
professlonal doubter.
Meyer very closely. Iwas
bone and
determined
don't believa in flying
just
not to
saucers. fortune telling, rein-,
fooled.
carnation or unlucky black
Gradually f realised that
cats.
they were tapping out real
And if I see Url Geller
sentences that were, as far
bend another 50 spoons I'm
I tell, of their own
talk!
as could
still
believe
he'll
not golng to
invention.
telepathy
did
What convinced me that
sensory structure and
Additionally, a lifetime
I was in the presence of
brain spent closa to dogs persuades
Any word a dog knows can
thinking creatures was living
similar to our own.
me that dogs are dogs and
be used to trigger off the ex-
with them from day to day,
The usual argument not four-legged humans.
pected reaction.
for walks and watch-
against animal intelligence, is I accept that dogs com-
Even so. nearly all dog
EnTEn them tap in all sorts of
that the telepathic principle municate. A dog with a bone
owners believe their own dogs
situations in the woods, at
1s at work.
soon tells another dog not
understand speech.
the zoo, in someone's home.
They said it about the to touch.
Of course, he understands
When you live with a per-
famous stallion "clever Hans" He Nor needs no speech for
"good dog" because you make
son you get to know pretty
in Berlin before the First this. human does he need it with
it sound caressing.
quiokly whether there is an
World War, and they said Leave beings. a
And what you called him
element of fake or untruth-
it in Virginia, about the an unschooled strange human dag with
when he offends sounds like
fulness in them.
remarkable horse Lady wlll explain
and he
a whiplash.
What I saw convinced me
MAURICE
Wonder, who died in 1957.
when exercise, he is
STANLEY
But logic cuts no ice when
that these dogs had hopes by
But how could telepathy hungry of course or wants he can under- by
we. talk about our own dog.
and sorrows like all of us,
have operated when Elke or
Which fact alone means
and were no less sensitive to ROWDON
Belam suddenly wanted to stand because some he things a we certain say a DANGERFIELD that for every person who
the terrors and the annoy-
"say" something in the woods a sound with connects a
questions the facts behind
ances of life than we are. their ages and solve mathe- about another animal neither If I happening. to
The Talking Dogs there are
While with Elke and Belam matical problems, aren't Dorothy nor I had seen,, it say "car" my dogs
ten who adore this remark-
I became convinced that the using their minds fully. and while our minds- were on means Sit ' means an outing. something the proves the point. said, Whatever his dog able story.
difference between their in- They are mechanical, entirely different subjects? them. So does "dinner", to did the performer opposite.
I finish with a true but un-
telligence and ours was not following the cues of their And what about the many "bone", "no", "bed" and "cat", a If he said slt the
characteristic story.
so. Their much quality as use.
trainer, in the movement of occasions when the dogs. score of pther things.
If he said quiet dog the stood. dog I once flew out of a South
the world whole approach to a hand or the whip:
tapped an urgent MUST They dould
have barked and
American
revo-
was different from But even this is a sign of (their. codeword for "I want been trained as easlly understand He had merely so on.
the lution broke country out. as
ours.
intelligence. It réquires to leave the room")? Were Greek or, as tn Belam and dog to beg when he taught. said sleep. It was frightening but as
Their ears were open to symbolisation, which in, turn Dorothy and I planting this Elke's case, German.
Jump on the table when he we took off a thought
the most distant sounds, requires a - neryous system, désire without knowing it?7 A. theatre act I once saw said down.
appeared in my brain. "My
their eyes took in a scene
dog is dead."
with the briefest flash of a
Two days later I found out
glance and their noses
that my favourite dog had
sought out the smells on the
TELL
ABOUT YOUR
indeed passed away without
wind.
CLEVER DOG
warning at that time some
faster And than. their ours. minds They worked would' READERS are rushing in their hundreds to tell us how E words-to a Talking Dogs," Evening News, New Carmelite 6,000 So here miles I away. am accepting
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by Monday. Include an SAE and we will endeavour to
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a Iong gaze.
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alternative prizes, no correspondence. Employees
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MOCHILLAN 7
11 Northburgh
DURRANT'S Street
London ECIV OJL
YORKSHIRE EVENING POST
YORKSHIRE LEEDS,
ISSUE
DATER6 SEP 1978
Talking dogs? Maurice
knows they exist
BOOKS
HAVE you heard about thé He, himself, was present raising of puppies and their
dog who walked into at when Elke was asked about training. All from the dogs'
living room and asked' for death and, to their aston- point of view.
the radio to. be turned off ishment, knew what it
also
bécause it was too loud? It's meant, Theirspines tingled family They
joined in
not a joke.
even more when Elke
life.
Fraulein Dorothy Meyer, tapped out that death was
One moring Bela m
who taught a Saluki named "a soft, dark mist with walked into Fraulein
Belam to communicate with eternal genuine lustre",
Meyer's living room where
her, claims it happened.
the radio was blaring and
She claims alot more,, They asked Belam a simi- tapped "ouch éar".
too, according to author lar question. rests in 'His reply was
Fraulein Meyer asked:
Maurice Rowdon, who has "one
peace".
"Is the music too loud?"
written a book, "The Talk- Maurice Rowdon reports
ing Dogs" (Macmillan that: the: dogs answered Belam I tapped: "Yes".
£5.95) about the Saluki and- questions about God, about "Shall turn it off?"
a poodle named Elke who each other, and about the "Yes," replied Belam.
were taught to "talk" by
Fraulein Meyer by tapping
their paws.
For example: Three taps He found that Fraulein
with the right paw means Meyer was a former school-
Three taps with the teacher, who had been
fertp paw means no,
asked by Frau Hilde
Fraulein Meyer spent Heilmaier, the owner of the
hundreds of hours teaching dogs, to set up a school for
the dogs an alphabet of the animals.
taps.
Frau Heilmaier was
They learned to do sums intensely interested in
and, then, to tap letters, animal intelligence and had
words, and, finally, com- read a: number of books
plete sentences.
about animals which had
If Fraulein Meyer was been taught to
able to guess the sentence communicate..
"afteraword or two- then" She wanted to start a
the dogs didn't bother to school of herown.
finish-it.
Lessons began with Elke
Maurice Rowdon went to 1, an eager and apt pupil.
Berchtesgaden, once noto- Her lessons started when
rious as Hitler's mountain she, was hardly a year old.
hide-out, to see Fraulein She wasn'ttoo.keenat first.
Meyer and the dogs,
But, gradually. she
learned the alphabet and
began doing sums"with a
smoothness which aston-
ished Fraulein Meyer.
Belam joined the class as
an interested observer, but
was soon into taking
lessons.
Maurice Rowdon's
account of the dogs' train-
ing makes fascinating and
instructive reading for
anyone tempted to "talk"to
their own dogs.
Even more interesting,
however, are the reports of
the dogs' conversations
logged by Dorothy Meyer.


FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8.
The final part of the
THE TALKING DOGS Day 3: A door opens on the animal world
Belam tells a
story and taps
out a message of love
Maurice Rowdon's The Talking Dogs
is a study of canine communication
They
really
lap
all
that
praise
THERE is nothing
He had trained himself to
evaluate the minute muscular
new about animals
which
contractions
the girl
that converse " by
involuntarily approached or made nrecrded from they
tapping or barking
the object.
or growling.
So it is just minute and
unsuspected' body signals?
Bears, horses and dogs
Again, I don't think so.
were doing it long
Wh,n was young and
before the Middle Ages
very Mentes I trained a group
and Banks' talking
bear. of three lions and a brown
horse was a London sen- by EDWARD
With one
sation in Shakespeare's
had a very lioness, high degree Delia, of
time.
CAMPBELL
empathy and taught her to
walk_16 feet along a double
And
the thirties
tightrope.
Marcus La Touche had a
When the
fully
very famous talking dog mount and two bodies share established trick was an
called Marquis.
a single nervous system,
extraordinary thing. noticed
circus It is slang no great it 1s mystery. called the In sand Not one ever rider in ten thou- this
If we were working to a
Joey Pony.
but the idca poenanon well known.
scant trained audience, in a small the provincial act was
If you stand beside a Shet-
And that is very much menagerie. and she got only
land
and scratch the what I believe is happening
modest round of applause,
upper pory of a foreleg with between Dorothy and her she would jump down to her
thumb nail, the pony dogs.
"home" position at the end
RONr, presently start to paw
She wants her dog to
of the trick.
the ground. stop scratching At the monient (and five times to indicate the tap
isep pony stops pawing), move letter L and a certain some-
Applause
your foot a couple of inches. and thing, start communicates signals to stop the
But if
After
the pony doggie paw-tapping.
we had good Sat-
will either aeraniner: paw stop paw-
All the rest follows. The urday night audience and she
ing according to the position
a real burst of applause,
your shoe: a simple case "communication," the aston- ERE wouid, without any cue
of transferred reflex.
ishing messages of mutual from me.
round and do
whole understanding (and revolt !; the walk LNCk again as an
But, and here the
and the seemingly
encore!
thing starts to get eerie, intelligence of a aumbereulors and a
I decided
with some animals you cani poodle.
with that a close had as-
Esdteate altogether stop moving and your just
But I don't think it is tele- sociation given her an ego. human She did a
THINK ABOUT MOVING pathy.
double it stint when she
YOUR FOOT. The animal
Behaviourists would prob- thought was worth it, or
now responds to a signal you ably say that the trainer out of shcer vanity.
didn't give!
makes involuntary muscular
I'm still not sure.
contractions when tapping is
But don't think animals I
Willed
start and stop: and the receive telepathically, think
which has an instinc- they receive emotionally; not
perception of body lan- concepts, not images but
Early this century in Ger- guage anyway, acts upon feelings.
many, the most outstanding these signals.
Subconsciously 1 suspect
of advanced High
The signals can be so that I wanted Delia to do
ErcoPhe
was Therese minute that the average encore. I sent out a pulse a7
Renz. She -n with person is totally unaware of emotion that "approved."
reducing the "aids," the making them.
The lioness reacted as she
muscular pressure heels of fingers
This
is illustrated had been conditioned to
on reins and
on flank, by the case mroya the Polish sen- react, i.e.
almost. to vanishing point.
sitive Wolf Messing. He used therefore walk "approval it again. signal,
Sometimes, days of rare to leave a room, or even the
Quite simply she respon-
with ondn horse, she building. while
ded to a
in terms
feeling
cmsatny ride
magnificent picked some object,a
its circumstances and 1e5
series
FCUE
of movements and picture,
bit of string,
of conditioning.
changes without making any anything.
Ristore believe Dorothy Meyer
muscular signals at all. She
ôn returning would take
wants to
willed
subconsciously
simply
the horse's someone by the NEOy usually
that dogs think and
movements.
a woman. and start to walk PaYYe and she radiates, albeit
At this level of communi- around the room. Gradually unconsciously, precisely the
eation, vealled symbiosis,
he would examine all the emotion which will cause thé
seens that the rider's mind objects and finally he would dog to confirm her wishful
over the muscl les ofthe annoi
n one
thinking.


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Amazing
story of
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that talk
TODAY the Evening
News begins one of
the most remarkable
animal stories ever
told.
This important series is
based on the results
of an astonishing in-
vestigation into the
question which has
intrigued people for
centuries :
Can dogs talk ? Can
they communicate
with humans, under-
standing what is. said
and conveying their
own messages ?
These are the issues
raised in the book
THE TALKING DOGS.
Start reading it in the
centre pages today.


HACMIELAN
11 Northburgh
Street
London
DURRANT'S
EC1V OJL
WILTS & GLOUCESTERSHIRE STANDARL
CIRENCESTER,
ISSUE
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
DATED 17 NOV 1978
The Talking Dogs' by
Maurice Rowdon (Mac-
millan 15.95) documents
an experiment in com-
munication between a
woman living in south-
ern. Germany and the
two dogs: Elke a poodle,
and Belam a Saluki. She
taught them to use
their paws to communi-
cate by tapping. This
amazing hook describes
in detail the process: of
teaching the to do
sums, and Sadeet to tap
letters, words and, fin- SH.C.LAuEL
ally, complete sentences.
The time came when
they were even capable
of giving advice to: their
ownerl an


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ECIV
THE NORTHERN ECHO
DARLINGTON,
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DATED
Dog talk
The Talking Dogs. By Maurice
Rowdon (Macmillan £5.95).
MAURICE Rowdon was askedto
write a book about two dogs
which werc supposed to be able
to communicate with people.
Trained and taught by their
owner, a poodle and a saluki
were reputed to be able to talk
by: using à system of tapping
with their paws based on à
particular code.
The author reports what he
witnessed and says that at first
he had doubt about the extent
of the talking, wondering how
much W a S ove r-free
interpretation by the teacher.
The reader must draw his own
conclusions as to whether this is
the case right through the
reported conversations, for
Maurice Rowdon says the
experience changed his attitude
and way of thinking not only
about dogs but about all
animals and made him wonder
if a closer relationship on a
different plane with the a animal
world W jould be of benefit to
man.


11 Northburgh
Street
DURRANT'S London ECIV OJL
EVENING SENTINEL
ISSUE
STAFFORDSHIRE HANLEY
DATED
BOOK LOOKS
What
was
she
told by
MOST pet owners have
been heard to ré-
mark at one time or
her talkative
another: "He under-
stands every word." Or
"Look, he's telling us
something."
pet dogs
Every Rover, and Rex, views I with a standard eom plex mathematical
Honey and Heidie have, in poodie bitch çalled Elke II. problems to apparent emo-
the past, imparted some and a Saluki male called tionak" retorts from the
message of great import 'to Belam.
animals ranging from. love
their doting owners.
It tells the story of how through fear to anger.
Canine intelligence has their teacher, Fraulein
In German
never been in dispute. One Dorothy Meyer, spent the
has only to look around at better part of: 18 months The dogs "answer" ques-
the working dogs in the teaching the dogs to tap out tions in German, (transla-
police force, or guide dogs messages with their 1 we tions provided) and usé as
which become the eyes of paws. Not merely "yes"t a basic alphabet, a phonetic
sight: ess people, to be sure and "no," but complex system.,
of that,
sentences.
Yet ean: a dog conmuni- Even more important, the As the interviews pro-
cate,atour levelz Can he. or author sets out to distine gressed, the author dis-
she, originate thougnt and guish thoughts and ideas covered a distinct character
convey thatsthought to us, originated by the dogs theme in both animals, with all
Interviews
selves, rather than answers the traits'and idiosyncracies
to set questions.
we associate with human Can
Maurice Rowden in his Fra ulein Meyer sat beings.
seems dogs to talk be This bouncing on.
poodle certainly
book The Talking Dogs" through more than. 500 Itis not suggested that
passing a joyous message.
thinks they And he has lessons well documented Fido, asleep in the r
compiled a somanilbe slab and taped to bring the is capable of
asking
statistics to drive home animals up. to the standards to make sueiy a cup of
ohe point.
portrayed in the book. 103 but the book does pose
The book, published this With the beautiful a number of interesting
monthby MacMisanLondon Bavarian countryside as its points-not least, that a dog
(price 22.95), doeuments setting: the book deals with can be trained to communi-
interviews. yes, in te r- "chats" with the dogs frona cate in a way, we under-
stand.
Whether thè trainer and
author have made too
clever? enthusiastic an interpreta-
tion. of the tappings is
Isyour pet
Havè you comeacross
another question altogether.
birds or animals STA Write and tell us instances if you intelligent We will Individual readers will
pay £1 for
Mota
eachi letter published-and there will be a themselves have their own
considers special prize for the writer of the letter the Editor interpretations and of the statis-
the best.
- athe ties book. comments made-in
Envelopes Letters should ideally be should not be more than 200 words. my own As dog forme, taps on when the
Sentinel, Northeliffe addressed House, Hanley, to the Editor, Evening door I know éxactly what
ST1 5HA, and marked Olever Animals. Stoke-on-Trenf, she means.


WEST LANCASMINE CV
BLACKPOOL,
ISSUE
LANCASHIRE
DATED
I BOONS
Turn
the radio off
said Belam
the
dog
Tt's too loud'!
IAVE bout the YOU dog heard who too, She claims a lot more, the dogs an alphabet of
valked into a living- Maurice according Rowdon, to who author has sums taps. and, They learned to do Meyerwas teacher, who a former had school- lustre.". They asked Belam
oom and asked for written a book, "The Talk- ters, words, then, and, to tup let- asked by Frau Hilde been Heil- a similar question. His
he radio to be turned ing Dogs". (Maemillan, complete sentences. linally, maier, the owner of the reply was "One rests in
ff because it was too E505) a about the Salukiand If Fraulein Meyer was dogs, to set up a school for peace."
oud? It's not a joke. were poodle taught mared "talk" Elke who by after able aword to guess the sentence the Frau animals. Heilmaier was that Maurice the dogs Rowdon answered reports
Fraulein Dorothy Fraulein Meyer by tapping dogs didn't bother or two thenthe to
intenseley interested in questions about God, about
who
their paws.
finish animal
each other, and about the
feyer, aluki named taught Belam a For example, three taps Maurice Rowdon
had read intelligence a number of and raising of puppiesandtheir
to with the right paw means
went to about animals which books training all from the
ommunicate with her, yes. Three taps with the left Berchtesgaden, notorious as
once been taught to
had dogs' point of view.
laims it happened paw means no.
hide- out, Hitler's to moun- cate. She wanted communi- to starta
writes Ron Thompson). Fraulein Meyer spent tein Meyer and see Frau- 1 school of her own.
hundreds of hours teaching He found that the Fraulein dogs.
Lessons with
CAEBERXIE
began Elke,
an eagerand apt pupil. Les-
sons started when she was
hardly wasn't too a year keen atfirst old. She They also joined in *28
But,
she life.
family
learned tsdNucs alphabet and
began doing sums with
One morning Belam
smooth n e ss which W alked into Fraulein
astonished Belam Fraulein Meyer. Meyer's livingroom where
joined the classas the radio was blaring and.
ani interested observer, but tapped "Ouch ear."
was soon into taking
lessons. Maurice Rowdon's "Is Fraulein the music Meyer too asked:
ing account makes of fascinating the dogs'train- Belam tapped: "Yes." loud?"
instructive readingi and "Yes," "Shall replied I turn it off"
one tempted to "talk" 81476
Belam.
their own dogs. Even more
interesting, the reports of however, thedogs' con- are
versations, Dorothy Meyer. logged by
He, himself, was present had One three day, Fraulein Meyer
death when Elke was askedabout at a new puppies with her
and, to the their was there, school a and Belam
astonishment, meant Their spines knew tingled what it looked at the star class pupilwho with
even more when Elke tap- benevolent superiority.
Psoio out with that eternal death genuine was The little ones dabbed at
ampantwcarpocruns
the air with their soft,
clumsy paws, sometimes
toppling over from the tap-
position they had been
EOsRe to adopt. Fraulein
Meyer was having trouble
with one called Abdul, who
refused to sit in the tapping.
position.
She asked Belam how she
could help Abdul.
Belam answered: "Ten-
derly guide.


MACMILLAN
11 Northburgh
DURRANT'S Street
London ECIVOJL
LIVERPOOI a ECH
CASHIRE
DATED ISSUR
THE
TALKING
DOGS
Elke the poodle
after death
othér effect on-me than any clearer Dorotby aoked reincarnation We decided years and something ago
dthattime. tappiogs I wimnessed by againe after "What do we mean to ask Elke.
-corresponds with_that of
EIN death?"
"Have you ever died?" Elke I's death which was
Fray Hellmater seaned eo tap: ZARIE at sbe began Dorothy asked her. YES.
two years andeight months
to Elke and she became the
word How long ago? Do you ago."
Vre "What is it when
tTN tense, know?" YES.
That evening Elke was
one dies, my love?"
almost down trembling, in
ber
She then tapped 0 (the coaxed into the tapping
ZOE
Z11
AsCEn
SCHWIER for
Then oame concentiration, the word tapping for this this could position and Mami asked
schwer (too difficult) DUKLE.
als6 mean two) followed her: "Do youknow the
camethe answer.
"Do you mean duakle by byIARE which was
bench at the inn_where we
Doyou mean too dif- this" word?" YES.
phonetic rendering cferck were there once today? Were you
ficuleto say?" Dorothy Then came NIEBRIL MIT
before?"
asked.her. "If
tap
years YES, Elke
ETERNIS CHE ECHT and yeel
"When
that? repiied:
three times. you do you SCHAIN. The whole sen- "Have Pa you died tes.
was your was
there? What
mean-too difficult for your tenoe stood for ein zarter onoe7" YES,
only Werat do experience of
beant? If you do, tap, five dunikler Nebel mit eternisc "Can you
that
remember
times,"
hen echten Schiein (a sofit about
more
LCA
death?" vEE
She tapped perfectly
Elke tapped five times. mist with eternal genuine "Or albout God?" YES.
She
BESONDERS TAROOD
xpake the question lustre). As the words formed on
then tappedER EAN (the sadly) second ELKE word WR very (for
tmy pad and she went on
Elke sick war)
espectaly
tapping in ter herseyes deeply TOMORROW:
"How elkens ago?" R (or
F almost closed, garedat
three) TIARE (for Jahre)
earch other, our spines ting-
--three.years.
ling with astonishment,
ROWDON
you mean three
One evening talked
yeRy YES. July 1972
again abourt the dost tap-
had been
month
pings on death and beigan. FXPLAINS
Elke T's LN.On atnf
to wonder it tbey iad any-
ness, and we werenow in
thing to say albout God.
September 1975.
Elke bad. already indicated WHY I
"Did you understand
that she was aware of the
what Mami was saying to
word.
at the bench
Dorothy asked Bellam: BELIEVE'
Yendon YES.
"What do you love more
aboss Was which it another Elke was Elke?" it?
than Mami (their pet
name for Frau Heil
YES.
20 ZART MATERI for er
Which Do Elke know?" was
He seemed penplexed eine zante Materia (he marod?
and ahe added: "Do you too
1 or soft
She tapped
UBAN
tina
20e
understand?" NO.
mabter). Materia is a word BIS *Is DOD. uban. right?" NO.
Do youi Jove something lsed in philosphical discus- "Do you mean uben
mone than Miami?" YES,
meaning substance.
YES.
He tapped MALAGRIT, Eba you YES. really mean (practise)?" The sentence therefore
sense, which seemed thent he to. filopped make out no Materia?" "And who is er (he)?" stood for Elke uben bis
on.the flpor.
Gon for Gott (God), she Tod (elke learn, or prac-
word "Do" God?" yiou understand-tie-weagk, YES. "Whab Our
a r
do you think of when we bight and next
on morn- a
say you
use this word!"
ill?
knows
took the Ramsau were
NoM,
LEBEN UBER IHN BIS
about
Ena high i the hills.
nothing
your being
ODEM ALLE (live by him At the
lot, near ill?"
until breathing ends) he an En Heilmaier DOOH TOT GEWESE
tapped. Alle colloquial Manthy to one ofthe ben- SFER ZU ERKLEREN for
expression ior "gone,"
and told Elke that I doch tot gewesen schwer
ended," and Odem is an RF been very ill at that erklaren (indeed been
old, poetical word for
shortly before ber Heatrk difficult explain).
Here she
How did that
reaoh She also told
Had she
her
him? For it rarely, ever,
bad an
avord
had sitellse fee
previ-
tigures ia daily speech.
ing, at the time she
aisreres her ImARIE
"Can you say something buying her, that Elke
Elke fr sickness from
more about God?"
was the reincarnation
many overheard
conversa-
IS SCHENIHIML UND Elkel.
tions, or received tele-
MID NGEL he tapped for Elke I
Frau Heil- phathic picture of it,
ist schon im Himmel und maier's bonets. dog
through Mami?
mit Engel (is beautiful in but she had died PLIRURE Maurice Rowdon 1978.
heaven and' with angels). through her training. Elke
Published by Macmillan
We kaughed where bad "The rough date
(London) Ltd., £5.95 on
the diche come trom?
gave us the other evening two
14. at
We had beea discussing fur her own death
September


ITSICOLINA REID
ITSMONDAY
man's
paw
guide to doggy talk
wonderful things go on in -Belam, a Saluki, and same test occurred to sus- (oh, creepy thought!) far from nature (includ- old cat Smokey would
the animal world I am Elke the Poodie-at their picious little me), but they even infiuence our ing our own nature)." suddenly stare alertly at
prepared to admit- -but home in Southern Ger- wouldn't buy it. Which E minds ?
With our minds care- seemingly empty spaces
WHAT are we to make this ?
many where they live did nothing to dispel In a riveting essay at fully circumscribed by in the room (what on
of a claim that two The claim is seriously with their téacher, doubt.
the end of the book the reason, he asks, have we earth is g oing on
dogs have been taught made in a book. called Fraulein Dorothy Meyer. That the dogs tap author argues that 'our blocked out other areas of there ?);nd the way she
to 'talk' to people, 'The Talking Dogs' (Mac- In painstaking detall answers to questlons claim to superiority over consciousness, other could S end telepathic
using an alphabet of millan, £5-95), and i con- he documents the paw- seems certain (so have animals rests on our hav- energy fields of an invi- messages from her empty
taps with their paws? fess my first thought tapping Intervlews on many circus animals
ing developed the brain sible world still intact in plate in the kitchen. -
And not only talk in was tnah chuck it at the cat many subjects over many there was even 'a tapping more than any other the animal kingdom? would rise and open a tin
constructed sentences, but and say : 'On, come on, months. Each letter of horse' in Shakespeare's species. But is reason "Western man is still without knowing why.
also speak English and cone on - Next we'll be the alphabet is given a day, as mentioned in necessarily intelligent ? perhaps waiting to reach Suddenly, I tell you,
German; solve compli- asked to believe that little specific number of taps Love Labour's Lost'), but Is intelligence necessarily an adequate animal level goose pimples began to
cated equations, do square dogs laugh (pax Fred and the dogs commun- how does one explain the mental ?
in spiritual and psychic rise on my neck. I
roots and expound on Bassett) and cows jump Icate by tapping their tapped thoughts of Elke 'The western (Chiefly powers, while deceiving decided not to chuck the
their own reincarnation over the moon.'
thoughts into their and Belam ?
19th-century) view of the himself that the cultiva- book at her after all. -
and the nature of death- But I didn't. I began to. teacher's hand.
Involuntary signals human organism as a tion of the brain puis went over to her, stroked
'a soft dark mist with read it again, There was A Swiss TV producer from the teacher to give physical apparatus gov- hlm far beyond the ani- her head ard sald : 'Now
eternal genuina lustre, something creepy about tried to persuade them to the required number of erned by the brain, sup- mal kingdom.'
then, Smokey, are you all
remarked a Poodle poet it.
use a large, doggy type taps ? Or could it be plied with sense messages Psychio powers - ? In- right? Is there anything
called Elke!
The author, Maurice writer instead of their telepathy? Can our by the nervous system, visible worlds ? began I can do for you at all?
That many strange and Rowden, visited the dogs teacher's hand (and the domestic pets read and seems to have taken us to think of the way our Just send me a message.'
Daily Mail, Monday, September 18, 1978


MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1978 EVENING NEWS 17
tory that raises the question: Are dogs more human than we ever imagined?
ALKING DOGS
They have been taught a kind
of doggy Morse code by which
they tap out their thoughts
and feelings
oi the talking dogs, interprets as Belam, the saluki, taps out a message in her palm with his paw. Poodle Elke. II, right, welcomed author Rowdon in the same way.
p be tapped again. viction-rather as child- Then begins the slow effort diffculties somet times terse, but strictly in line
as generally clear ren, bubbling over with of concentrating on the stood in their way.
with their different per-
word had been something to and too
clever.
say
Who'sa
word tobet tapped.
Undoubtedly the dogs sonalities.
Ear because the dog excited to compose it pro- Sometimes there are tapped letters. But wasn't Also, I was to see much
make some move- perly, supply with their long pauses between one there an element of over- more évidence of their ini-
f relief or excite- eyes and expresslons what letter and another, 'while
then?
free interpretation on telligence just the
for
boy
pr pause longer thelr words are short of. the dog seems to lose Dorothy's part?
ability to tap. taTpast could
fual.
A account cannot track of what he or she Would these tappings work
arithmetical WHETHER
Maurice
me that
Impression both wants
stories of
yOy
reminding
to He
quicker than
author
gazes
say.
POYRr
phonetically COTOE of
turn out to be mostly a
HOMTIRAN omeranet perception of
s'spelt
round, even nods
Probiens
jumble of jetters from
ofinterpreting tOE we
Dorothy
seems
have
Cdepemene
whole,
beings.
The thread adeca to
never
uncanny way. Sometimes
mean SRTE
which she chose-Indeed,
this
(He is tell aumen teacher mRE
half-constructed
eye
clever to
GrRogoE
have somethingto sayby iogiat
long the tences
your dog win
which more
1hFA
to in
always returns
ies
her certain
back the turning by an excited look Bus the
unless he's made sense? of These that were centimetre of or exact
us -in not
taps of the
tired
the doubts
first
give
your
tan
myer eye.
MEARL AyOT the
evening.
tOONRn enenmathematical
sure iEre
their AO.dRE
after flashing a
show how umer
hrone Pamcors:
Pause
care. I'd some-
Precise
EsNEn perceptible glance
that, once
that their
blackboard to take
us picture
mnund
ErcaLCeTe
have one. FOP each
we vou
Tatre
the
YEurE
printed
were constructed
Hte
t0: phonetic
then coaxes them messages of letters, They laid to rest And I have rarely met E5. And best of letter
writer
human beings
free
HAP,
eort
aren't
the tapping position CaE 9ht umto the case at once. as the
tently truthful consis-
under-
side or immediately
it took
as Elke II
Aictr
more
as I remember
her.
(although
used to
and Belam.
risht away must
been at
such a
evening with
Esmed"
the
9E in
way
convince
t160 me).
began to
News
can place a
Fourmta
they
paw
always seemed to
AnD REnrt tapped remarks
1AQ
them-
outstretched hand know
ino3 her
what they wanted were not only on the
we will
Lahe cdogE.t con- without overbalancing. to say, though technical whole precise and even Imd
Houtors
The
millan
Mec,
is No
TEES
POODLE LEARNS TO COUNT UP TO 50
September members of their families, are Group not ellgible. or
a E
RCE


STARTING TODAY... The extraordinary story that raises the question: Are dogs
THE
TALKING
a Can dogs communicate with human beings as
equals? Are they much cleverer than we
thought ? Do they really understand what we
They
are saying? These are the questions raised in a
remarkable new book, THE TALKING DOGS,
serialised in the
News this week.
Evening
We present the evidence author Maurice
Rowdon discovered when he: went to Germany to
see the experiments of animal teacher Dorothy
they
Meyer who claimed she had taught a poodle and
a saluki to f talk," by use of a complicated
routine of paw taps, like a doggy Morse code.
and
Rowdon arrived as a sceptic, and left, weeks
later, convinced dogs had, and can express, the
whole gamut of human emotions.
O. We have placed all the author's evidence in the
hands of Stanley Dangerfield, one of the world's
leading experts on dogs. His verdict on The
Talking Dogs will appear later this week. What
he has to say will surprise you.
O There's a chance for you to have your say, too.
Already we have heard from one reader who saw
a Labrador able to play dominoes-using paw
tapping to indicate which piece to play. Write
and tell us what you think about talking dogs.
0 And your dog can join in, too, to win a year's
supply of dog food ! See below.
MAURICE
ROWDON
WHEN I first met scratch-with only printed
Elke II, the Stand- records of previous animal
tappings, from 50 or so
ard poodle bitch,
before, to on.
and Belam, the yeaor weeks EOO had
Saluki male, on a worked ing her in capacities the dark, doubt- an
hot September
teacher and ait the
afternoon at Salz-" I discovery prepared LRTTE for came. shock
burg airport, they: ready Like me, she had to accept been
were sitting waiting animal meallece as an
for me with their idea. But to accept
teacher.
the reality ngs animals as
Elke's white fur was EANE beings. discovery that in
dazzling in the remark- many
animals
ably clear, mountain- truthfulness have a aoray integrity,
reflected sunlight. Her sion superior and our compas- own Dorothy Meyer, above, teacher of the talking dogs, interprets as Belam, the saluki, taps out a message her
were
eyes
round and
even shock.
in palm w
black and vivaciously MR tesgaden ETEE Imet FrauHeil- in Berch- Sch=22 taps. Then she word to be tapped again. viction-rather as child- Then begins the slow effort
attentive. her side, Belam, maier, owner the dogs held out her hand for the It was generally clear ren, bubbling over with of concentrating on the difficulties stood in thei
taier and bonier. seemed and school." founder of the "dog dogs to tap into.
when a word had been something to say and too word to be tapped.
Undoubted
shyer ofthe two with she had been For a some
Elke's message for me completed because the dog excited to compose it pro- Sometimes there are tapped letter
ine sensitive nose, dogs which she parederor was: firm and unhesitat- would make some move- perly, supply with their long pauses between one
and
bueicojen deliciously
at the frequently local ing.
ment of relief excite- eyes and expresslons what letter and. another, while there interp ele
straggling fur.
mectams
First came nine; ten and ment, or pause for longer their words are short of. the dog seems to lose free Dorothy's
She had a flat the three taps which, I found than usual.
A account cannot track of what he or she Would pa
Hideout
floor Athona same consulting the alpha- After reminding me that convey impression both wants to say. He gazes
scurL as Bcortne whom pet list, made DER. Then the dogs' spelt phonetically
to of
even nods
turn out of
she employed. Frau Heil- 20 and three, ZR. This
Dorothy
seems
jumble
EORE
They had heard a lot maier also a
for
whole,
beings.
nadeepe
had cottage
They
which she
Eerthreca
about me. Id been asked some metres where was followed by 13, 20,16,
"DO mean tell their teacher they
BRrde
away,
(He is
half-
write book about dogs often lived.
IZS. lastly flve, Der ist sehr Recyon
have
to say_by ingtat pause, however he long returns the tences
make
down
seven,
LCOUNe
thent and help their ineudo settled
Ardula
came back
turning MONh a certain to the always he's made sense
intelligence known to the coffee and and
together
or by an excited look
subject, unless
TTAIOCS
cake cream,
doubts
in armchairs round tence ran DER thsz Seri answer (three taps the mather in eye.
toot Irealised tired to the
the evening.
was a exhilarat-
LIB.
orpor
are
table, and the began-
back my re-
their
ing and were about
their
AOCRE
tapping
"greet-
that encoun-
care. I'd
Aust-
Pause
great
some-
tapprer
dive
Pre
Relief
once
how imagined that their
Hatr
to ROdATE TERCKT Teuerat letter the aha
on printed
messages were
of the
bet
constructed
noatos
one
most was represented by
gaden,
then
phonetic She coaxes them
jumble letters, They
pleasant Bavaria's certain number paw Dorothy's method was TOES the
aren't
position out 9ht
the case at once. vere
mediaeval
lanes
towns, taps. First Dorothy to enquire each word
clear and under- moen AuOrInE immediately (although took more grew
Hitler's
used
LAESOE
the
SES as I remember At
than one evening with learned to
COTATECOEL
edin the letters MbvAnet she
FTRCEDE dog
to have been at the
sit het such a
them to convince me).
witnessed in
tont
the German alphabet
that they can place a pay They
seemed to
few
AnD
was
tapping
Hrotnta LOSLA was NO,
dogs them- intoher outstretched hand know
Emahees
had example: E taps, Dorothy asked for the Cavathe carried con- without overbalancing. to say,
changed
waole
their
tecented
Dorothy
teacher,
ROE
She had started from
TOMORROW: ELKE THE POODLE LEARNS TO COUNT UP TO 5
SF MENE


TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1978 EVENING NEWS 1s
RLD THAT ANIMALS HAVE FEELINGS LIKE HUMANS?"
DAY TWO OF
THE TAPPING CODE
Number of Letter of
taps alphabet
THE TALKING
DOGS
by MAURICE ROWDON
7 B
of word
21=CH
ing each carefully
At this.
HOW
swer
stage, like Paula AND
YOU
22=SCH
Moeckel with Rolf, she con-
stantly named objects
in the CAN WIN A
flat or in the street.
Later,
when difficult, the abstract dogs began and tapping even GREAT PRIZE
recondite words, she realised IF you think
does
how fact knew. much German they in clever he could your win dog you is a
More
and
prize.
emed
This: is the code Dorothy Meyer taught her pupils,
were added. letters Elke had a. words size- Write and tell
her.
Belam the Saluki male and Elke 11, the Standard
able vocabulary now and only. more than 250 us-in not
ems:
poodle bitch (all pictured left). In answer to direct
five more letters remained your
words-about
d by
they
three
Intelligent pet. Tell us
questions tapped out
times with their
be taught.
what makes
get
you sure he Is
right paw if the answer was YES and three times with
When she looked at all clever.
into
the left paw if the answer was NO.
these new board words and letters Send us a picture of your
on the -at the end of: pet, too, If you have
ested
the day, Dorothy felt.for the each letter
one. For
of 5
first time a sense. of real
£5. we publish we. will
ecog-
pay And the best lettèr.
total lifted his paws invitingly. one, blandly noble, and leav- letter and, writing it down, (5): The first two words: she achievement. What an
wins the writer a year's free.
she But salukis are. much- less ing Dorothy to ask herself explained that letters: made learned to tap were RALF,
exhausting jour- supply of HAP, the new soft
effusive than poodles, and
ney it had been so.far; what
1 see Belam was naturally reserved whether he. was refusing an iti possible for words to be (the name of Frau Heil- patience one. required! A moist dog food made by Pedi-
to 4 anyway. The most he would education or accepting one. written The as alphabet well as spoken. Dorothy maier's phonetic son) rendering and FRO of "froh") (the classroom of 30 or 40 children gree Letters Petfoods. should be sent right
do was offer her, slowly and But later, on the day of adopted was largely that
seemed nothing compared away and must arrive
egan elegiacally, a :rear paw, his his real lesson when he used by
the
with it.
before
lems huge dark eyes gazing off showed no response at. all, talking Rolf, trained pioneer by
Dorothy prepared cards for For weeks, indeed from. the September 11. Address them
that into some wild landscape. he suddenly began tapping Paula Moeckel dog, of Mannheim, Dr. each letter on which its tap- first lesson, ishe had been to Talking Dogs," Evening
itipli- far beyond the schoolroom, for Frau Heilmaier in her
ping value was written in haunted by the doubt that News, New Carmelite House,
lems his back turned firmly. flat-four clear taps with the Germany, First World just War. before She made the the and she top also right-hand corner, nothing would come of it. London EC4Y 1AQ (Comp),1f
days, towards her.
left paw and four with the a few additions such as SCH ters on the wrote the let- Now she suddenly saw ahead an appropriate S.A.E.
igger
is_Pto
right. Had he been learning (22 taps) and CH (21)-
blackboard, at to the time when the dogs closed we will endeavon The
went
Affection
after all? Had he started his. these being so common in lessons. least for the introductory names would be. tapping not just return Editor's photograpbo. 1S No
Offering the rear is a schooling in his own un- the German
as to
and baby-phrases, but
declslon final.
that deeply affectionate FARAN among hurried way?
as let- New letters followed and messages that would surprise alternative prizes, No corre-
s, at dogs, more so] than
justify treating
new words-BAL (a phonetic the world.
spondence
the result.
DaTEeE
about
erver. and ear-sniffing. It. was licking one now Dorothy come to felt teach the time Elke had the ters The in their first own letters right. Elke rendering ball), BELLEN
TOMORROW:
Employees of Associated
him of his typical considered alphabêt. She made the learned were F (one tap), éto bark), 80 (a name Belam the Saluki tells Newspapers Group Ltd., or
and statements, hurying for no sound appropriate for each O (2), R (3), A (4), and L Dorothy for Dorothy). explained oret the course, mean- a story.
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ISSUE - 8 SEP 1973
DATED
your
dog
trying to
tell
you
something?
THE next time
After_ nine months of
starts
by Dan
lessons Belam, asked what
your dog
he had seen in the wood,
tapping the ground
Lees
replied that he meant raven, a confirmed bird, and
with its front paw,
added that it had pecked The talking dogs: A howler, or asc
attention.
the Loch Ness Monster him Another
advance?
pay
and pavement fried eggs. breakthrough was to teach great
Aitic
It could be
to But now, with scientists the dogs personal pro-
complain about 7bdg the
making serious efforts to nouns proving that the
or to lay the ground- and communicate dolphins, with Elke apes. and animals had a sense of
work for a philosophical Belam could stand a identity.
discussion.
chance of getting through spelling By 1975 out the words dogs were that
In Bavaria in southern to us, especially as they they had overheard rather
Germany a poodle called seem to have a great deal than: been taught and giv-
Elke and a saluki, called more to say than most ing their thoughts on the
Belam have been talking of the others.
after life as "a soft dark
to their mistress since Former personnel con-
with eternal genuine
1973, using their
to sultant Dorothy Meyer
FEcTart
signal alphabet Dota taps. and her friend Frau
Heilmaier began by
Silly
teaching the dogs to count
Conclusions
and then to do simple
The conversations, sums.
In The Talking Dogs
à which began with words and When multiply they could they divide were Maurice (Macmillan, Rowdon, £5.95) who
like include man subjects and ball, like now the introduced to the letter spent some time in Ger-
afterlife and the existence tapping code: One tap for many with the dogs and
of God.
F, two for 0, three taps their teachers, tells the
for R and so on up to story
their achieve-
Talking animals have 25 taps for X.
ments it such painstaking
been around for a long After weeks of patient detail that only. two con-
time.
work the dogs' vocabulary clusions are possible.
A tapping horse men- included words like gut
Either the two German
tioned in Love's Labours for good, dumm for stu- ladies and their pets have
Lost who could do pid, katze for cat, and made the sort of
"strange and wonderful wurst for sausage, with breakthrough that war-
things by the arts of Belam lagging behind rants an immediate inves-
magicke" was later Elke.
tigation by the m 0 st
burned at the stake with But even Elke was only highly qualified scientists
his master "as one witch", tapping out words sug- available.
while in the 1900s Clever gested to her or written Or they are consum-
Hans a stallion who could up on the blackboard.
mate liars and confidence
count, spell, add, subtract Then Dorothy began tricksters with Mr Row-
and read clocks and maps, asking her pupils ques- don as their dupe or their
became world famous.
tions like "do you accomplice.
By and large, however, remember the name of Meanwhile I shall be
talking dogs and the rest this sign?" which careful about what I say
have had a bad press as demanded a definite in front of our cat.
a regular feature of the answer and provided for You never know whom
silly season, along with a controllable response.:
she might repeat it to.