Dog Speak

The Stories About Talking With Our Animals

About 100 years ago, Hugh Lofting started writing a number of books, fantastical tales really, about many fun topics, including the first in a series of stories called The Story of Dr. Dolittle. The adventures were brought to life as Lofting often sat on military battlefields, following his orders to help make the world a safe fun for freedom and magical ideas.

The Story of Dr. Dolittle came together in about 1920 and offers details about a human physician whose medical practice fails because he is not good at working with needy and sick humans. It turns out that the good Dr. Dolittle is much better at working with animals, though that didn’t help him much because animals couldn’t pay him and, of course, it was hard to work with sick and hurting creatures who he could not speak to. Or so he thought, anyway ….

The following is a well-known conversation that takes place between the Dr. and one of his office companions, Polynesia, who happens to be a parrot. A convenience that gives the Dr. a leg up because, as we all know, parrots like Polynesia can indeed talk. At least they can when they want or need something.

Only it turns out,

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