The Science & Secrets of Dogs
Amazing Facts About Dog Intelligence, Senses, Emotions, Body Language, and Everything We Now Know About Our Best Friends
by Bruce Miller
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Pub Date Dec 22 2025 | Archive Date Feb 23 2026
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The Science and Secrets of Dogs —Amazing Facts About Dog Intelligence, Senses, Emotions, and Body Language
Book One of The Family Dog Series. Have you ever wondered what your dog is really thinking — or why they react the way they do?
The Science and Secrets of Dogs shows you how to understand your dog better using modern canine science, behavior research, and real-world insight. This book teaches you how dogs think, feel, remember, and communicate — so you can build a deeper, calmer, and more trusting relationship with your dog.
Instead of guessing at your dog’s behavior, you’ll learn how to read their emotions, body language, and decisions, helping you respond in ways your dog truly understands.
Important concepts are revisited: The book revisits its most important concepts about dogs in different ways to help them become second nature, giving you practical insight you can recognize, trust, and use in real moments with your dog. In this book, you’ll learn how to:
• Understand how dogs think, reason, and solve problems
• Recognize dog emotions like joy, fear, jealousy, grief, and love
• Interpret canine body language and communication signals
• Learn how dogs remember, dream, and experience time
• Understand how dogs perceive the world through smell, sight, and sound
• Strengthen bonding, attachment, and trust with your dog
Grounded in animal behavior science, this is not a dog training manual. Instead, it’s a practical guide to dog psychology and perception — helping you see the world through your dog’s eyes.
Perfect for dog owners, families, and anyone interested in dog intelligence, dog behavior, canine emotions, and the science of dogs, this book will change the way you understand and connect with your best friend.
👉 Start with Book One of The Family Dog Series and discover what your dog has been trying to tell you all along.
Continue the Journey in The Family Dog Series
This book is Book One of The Family Dog Series, designed to help families understand, communicate with, and enjoy life with their dogs.
Coming next in the series:
Book Two: How to Speak Dog: A Complete Family Guide to Dog Body Language, Emotions, Signals, Stress Signs, and Understanding What Your Dog Is Really Saying (to be released January 22, 2026).
Book Three: Fun Training & Games for Dogs: Easy Dog Tricks, Brain Games, Enrichment Activities, and Family-Friendly Ways Kids and Adults Can Train, Bond With, and Enjoy Their Dog (to be released February 19, 2026).
Start with The Science and Secrets of Dogs and continue building a stronger, happier relationship with your dog — one book at a time.
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Reviewer 1306253
Great book
Helped with my 2 18 month old staffy cross
Being able understand my dogs better
Definitely book for all dog owners and future owners
This is not a dog training manual, but it will improve your relationship with your dog. It is not a science book, though it includes scientific breakthroughs and the latest results from behavioral experiments. Add a sprinkle of real-life anecdotes and a large helping of humor and you’ll get this adorable, charming look at how our canine companions experience emotions, how they perceive the world and show us their intelligence. By reading their body language, humans can respond in a way that they will understand. I’ve read some of the references that Miller uses, like Gregory Berns’ account of his MRI experiments in awake dogs, or Alexandra Horowitz’s Inside of a Dog, and this book summarizes their findings in a very approachable way. There is a little repetition of some concepts, but I really didn’t mind it. Every dog parent should read this book. Adding the rest of this series to my TBR. 2 paws up.
I chose to read this book and all opinions in this review are my own and completely unbiased. Thank you, NetGalley/Bruce Miller.
Rory C, Reviewer
Firstly I want to thank Bruce Miller, Pacific Trust Holdings NZ Ltd, and NetGalley for access to this fantastic book.
As a German Shepherd owner as a young boy, I went into this with high expectations given the subject matter is close to my heart, and this book did not disappoint. It is meticulously well researched, citing sources for a large numbers of studies, which gives excellent grounding to the otherwise emotional and sentimental tone the book carries throughout.
It gives a considerable insight into the way Dogs align with us, and also sheds light on the ways in which they differ that provide much needed context to their actions and body language, which might not always make sense to us in the moments we share with them.
I can't recommend this book strongly enough for anybody who is seriously considering adopting a dog, or even for someone who already knows the joys of a dog's life as I have. I certainly won't hesitate to read the follow up books in this series if the quality of this first entry is any indication.