So, when the birds don't move around or yap in open spaces, that makes things more challenging for the humans.

The overall moral of his story was "Women keep yapping about it, so we'll promise they can have it to shut them up."

On a quiet weekday evening inside a restaurant in Brooklyn, a dog under a table announced its presence with a single pronounced yap.

“Think I’ll have the hellhound as my appetizer. Shut up that yapping,” Mack says.

The yapping mutts were just a sideshow, however, to the main event, which was announced from a dais by Sarah Furness, a local dignitary: the unveiling of Britain’s first memorial statue to Queen Elizabeth II.