I had no professional cooking experience and had never been to cooking school; I didn't expect anyone to read along to my yapping when there were actual experts out there.

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.