Gameplay Strategy
Tip 1: The most important thing in the game is to level up your language skills by eating dog food. Early on, you will have to wait for it to arrive, but soon after you will learn to Bark and ask for the dog food, so progress will be a lot faster. So eat as much as possible! Note: have in mind that the food is only served in the area where the three dogs are, so make sure that you bark only when you are nearby.
Tip 2: The second most important thing are bugs: you can never have enough of them, so collect them like there's no tomorrow! You will also learn, eventually, a skill that will call in the bugs and it will be easier to collect them. Just like barking, use the skill whenever you can!
Tip 3: Talk to all dogs: new information will be available each time you level up your language skills or after passing a certain milestone in the game. I usually go talk to all dogs after each new level - there's not much else you can do anyway.
Tip 4: You don't have to wait to fully understand what the dogs are saying in order to be allowed to complete some of the tasks, but you will have to eventually understand them for others, so you still have to go through the eating/getting bugs phases.
Tip 5: Unlock the hints. In the main menu, you will have hints for the main events in the game. You unlock each by watching an ad - make sure you do so because it helps the developer greatly and the game is really worth our support! Plus, the hints themselves will make your life a lot easier!
Various Gameplay Tips
Level up your language and talk to the dogs, they will start giving you quests and you have to complete them one after another in order to complete the game. There's no other way around this. So talk to the dogs until you understand them, they will give you quests.
The first quest will be to get the rubber duck from the bathtub. You will learn from the dogs (and hints) that the key to the bathroom is in the sink. After getting there, you will have to talk to the jumping dog in order to learn to swim. After doing this, keep leveling up your language skill and collect bugs. You will end up giving a mouse to the dog in the cage.
After a while, the jumping dog will start allowing you to level up your speed - take a few upgrades, but don't spend all your bugs on that yet because you will need them for other quests. For example, the next quest: the medicine. You will need 500 bugs to give to the dog in the cage in order to complete this quest as you need his treasure: a DVD. Play it in the DVD Player, then go to the dog house - blindly move forward as much as possible, then all the way to the right. You will get the study key.
Go to the computer and use it - you need the password: 4, 7, 6, 3.
Go talk to the dog in the jail house, then collect the oil canister. Go to the flower pot and dig - then return the dead puppy to the jail dog. Go to the warehouse.
Once there, you can eat all the dog food to earn a ton of fast levels! Also get the medicine and deliver it to the dog. Then give her the oil can - you need to fill it with oil first, though, from the toilet.
Now talk to the dog guarding the door - you have to collect 1,000 bugs!
Everything goes on and on like this for the remainder of the game: you need to eat and collect bugs, level up your speed and complete missions as soon as you're ready to understand what the dogs are saying.
