There are these boards of buttons you can get. They go on the floor and when your dog steps on on of them it says an English word. Basically, there is a device people are using to teach their dogs to speak. I’m not sure I want one because once a dog can speak can you still expect it to go pee in the freezing cold?  And it would clearly be wrong to take away speech once you’ve given it to them.<br><br>Maybe aliens don’t want to teach us how to talk because then they’d have to talk to us.