How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog Free Audiobook Download by Christina Hunger

Stella the Dog's story starts out with a broken-hearted Justin who has been separated from his family. After finding Stella, the dog is unable to form words and instead goes on an adventure to find her voice that takes her through many different experiences.

[Ann Marie Gideon] is a woman who began work on what would become the project that would change the world. She was a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, working her way toward her master's degree in psychology when she first met Stella. In order to study how language might be learned by animals, [Ann Marie] created an innovative experiment: teaching sign language to one dog.

In 1877, a childless couple in Scotland was in need of some companionship, but couldn't afford to buy a dog. When they heard stories of a dog that could talk, they snatched Stella up and brought her home. Not only did she start to talk, but she also became the first animal ever to learn the English language. She was able to speak more than 100 words and phrases thanks to her owner's careful training.

"What else would you name a dog that can talk?" "Stella." With those three words, thirteen-year-old Stella became the world's first talking dog, and an inspiration to all kids who dream of the impossible.

Created in 1870, the world's first talking dog began his career in 1877 at the London Zoo. His name was Stella and with a lot of hard work and dedication he learned to talk. In this well written book we follow Stella's life from his days as a pup to his death at the hands of a gas explosion in 1882.

In this audiobook, Ann Marie and Stella tell the story of how they came to be and how they learned to talk. The two share their memories of what it was like living in captivity and being subjected to experiments by studying people's body language.