Is there anything cuter than puppy barks? Probably not, unless it is the very first time a tiny Yellow Labrador puppy finds his voice and lets out a bark! Well, really, it is more of a welp, but it is ...

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.