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One user commented, "I wish I could speak dog," on the viral TikTok video that has received over 1 million views.

Horowitz, who runs the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College, is the author of The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves Puppies aren’t born barking, just as children aren’t born chattering.

UPDATE, JULY 25, 8:56 A.M.: 51-year-old Michael Stuart Patterson just couldn't take the barking anymore, so after kicking open the front door of his Mission Viejo neighbor's home while yelling, “I'm ...