Do you talk to animals, your pets ect.

[Plastic-Fox]

Everyday of their lives. I'm constantly chatting up my cats. Telling the oldest to watch the others when I'm gone to requesting suggestions on the essays I write for college. It's what my mom did so I guess it's inherited. If it's alive I usually am fine with a few short one-way conversations. Then it's snuggle time!

 

[Maelstrom Eyre]

I talk to them, not because I think they can understand me and we do not have deep philosophical conversations, but I talk to them.

We have horses. . .they are a highly social animal, they can learn "words" and pick up on voice tone and body language, so it is possible to anticipate their behavior by learning how they communicate with each other.

I am a weird person. . .I feel more at ease with a dog or a horse than I do around most people.

Must be the fact that they don't judge me when I stutter, or if I say something weird or stupid. They just look at me like "that's nice. Do you have food?"

 

[Charrio]

I talk to them, not because I think they can understand me and we do not have deep philosophical conversations, but I talk to them.

We have horses. . .they are a highly social animal, they can learn "words" and pick up on voice tone and body language, so it is possible to anticipate their behavior by learning how they communicate with each other.

I am a weird person. . .I feel more at ease with a dog or a horse than I do around most people.

Must be the fact that they don't judge me when I stutter, or if I say something weird or stupid. They just look at me like "that's nice. Do you have food?"

I'm the same way, I feel way more safe with my animals.
People make me scared, obviously past bad experience has shaped that fear and it's much easier for me to be myself and relax with my dogs around rather than people.
Some people don't make me fearful but still feels strained unlike talking to my dog and getting a sympathetic nuzzle.

 

[wolfy-jay93]

oh hell yeah always talking to my cats, they understand about the same amount as hearing a can get opened but isn't it natural to talk the them?

 

[Jambalaya]

My dogs know all my secrets. I tell them everything and it takes a weight off my chest at the end of the day.

 

[X_Joshi_X]

I talk to my cat often.
She understands every single word.

 

[Charrio]

I talk to my cat often.
She understands every single word.

God i love how cats meow back, sometimes i just sit there and go, "Uh huh, then what? Oh crap she said that!?" as if my cat is telling me about her day lol

 

[Punnchy]

Yes, I talk to my pets, and they talk to each other, and to my girlfriend through me, to me through her.

 

[Alexxx-Returns]

I talk to out pets all the time. I also sing to my Dizzy, she seems to like me singing to her.

Me and Dizzy don't need to talk to understand each other. We have learned how to interact with one another so perfectly as a team by now. If she follows me up to bed when I am about to get in the bed, she will wait till I'm under the covers before jumping up on my lap. She follows me around the house - wherever I am, that's where she wants to be.

If I come home in the evening and no one can find her, all it takes is for me to call for her, and she perks up from whatever drawer she was sleeping in, and comes to say hello.

So yeah, I do talk to my cat, but we communicate in so many other ways.

I tell her I love her like, 3 times a minute though.

 

[Deleted member 93706]

Of course!

 

[Dvir]

yep, always have.

 

[Nataku]

Yes I chat with my animals. The dog has limited understanding. He's got a vocabulary of perhaps fifty words he understands? If I tell him 'kitchen' he'll go to that room, if I tell him 'good night' he'll go lay down in my room, etc. He knows the difference between 'noms' which are for him and 'food' which is for people to eat. Those were mostly just things taught to him out of my own boredom and things to keep a puppy's mind busy for five minutes so he'd stop trying to chew on everything. He certainly doesn't speak english and I know he doesn't understand everything I have to say, but he's something to talk to.

He does talk back on occasion. I must say something that he feels the need to make noise about. I also notice he tends to be most talkative in the morning after his outside romp. I tend to write it off as him doing the same thing to me that I do to him - talking in his own language that I don't understand at the other thing he lives with, just because he's got no one else to talk to. I humor him and talk back.

I also have rats, I talk to them. Some of them recognize their names and come when called. Most of them don't care whether you talk or not. So long as its not a sudden, sharp loud noise they're content to hang out on your shoulder and check out your hair while you babble. Maybe brux along contentedly.

The snakes, most of them aren't big on talking. Snakes aren't noisy by nature. I talk to them to sometimes, it can feel like they're paying attention if they're looking at you so intently and never blinking (no eyelids will give that impression). Of course I know better, they are more than likely asleep and ignoring every word I'm saying. Still I take comfort in it. But tap the lid of the cage three times and you best bet that head comes up and the snake is paying attention. But that's because my snakes have all been taught through repeated conditioning that three taps on the lid or door and its food time.

 

[funky3000]

I talk to my cats sometimes, my vocal cat Tiger seems to respond more often when she's in a loving mood. With cats you don't exactly expect them to be obedient, but my cat Shadow almost always trots behind me if I make a sound with my mouth and rub my fingers together. If she's on the ground by me I do the same thing and she jumps in my lap. And Boots is just too irresistibly cute NOT to talk to her.

And then there's my dog, a Yorkie, named Sophia. Call her out from sleeping under the chair and she gets up on you and just stares gleefully into your soul. Like just talk to her and pet her head and she does nothing but this: 0w0

 

[Dr. Franken-Fox]

From what i have read, they help people with autism.
Giving them someone who can understand without words at times, and a friend who stays even when it gets really hard and frustrating

They do help people with autism, I'm on the spectrum and having a dog has helped me in so many ways I can't list them all here! And friends and family are only there when it suites them, when you're emotionally distressed they don't want to hear about it and clear off, but never my dog, he stays with me through thick and thin

 

[Jambalaya]

And your dog will never judge you. That is a big thing for me. No judgements, no shaming, no guilt trips (except when I get home late and they are all pretending I starved them all for weeks on end.).

 

[Gnarl]

Yes! now if I could just get him (the dog) to quit asking me for food all the time. Sheesh, I mean good grief you teach em to talk and they just won't shut up.

 

[funky3000]

My dog is cool with visitors given time, but wont shut up if someone walks by, even if you can't see them on the street in general! The houses don't let you look very far up or down the street from where she is but still, its ridiculous how much noise a tiny little dog makes xD

 

[Charrio]

They do help people with autism, I'm on the spectrum and having a dog has helped me in so many ways I can't list them all here! And friends and family are only there when it suites them, when you're emotionally distressed they don't want to hear about it and clear off, but never my dog, he stays with me through thick and thin

That is awesome, i was left alone quite a lot as a kid while my parents worked.
My dog was always my best friend and confidant, cant count how many times i looked to my dog for comfort.

 

[Biochemiphy]

I try not to. :>

 

[SkyboundTerror]

I don't talk to them like I would with another person, but I do wrestle with my dog and talk trash. The little punk is always trying to fight me.

 

[Mikazuki Marazhu]

if they talk...
Dogs are still better

 

[SaintEliza]

. - . I have 4 cats and I talk to them all the time. I treat them as equals, but they know I'm the boss. >=> Mainly we converse with body language. I relate the movement of my eyebrows to the movement of their ears, and they tend to move their ears in the way I would have if I had cat ears. We understand each other pretty well. They're still spoiled though. But they're my only IRL friends. Haha.

 

[Charrio]

. - . I have 4 cats and I talk to them all the time. I treat them as equals, but they know I'm the boss. >=> Mainly we converse with body language. I relate the movement of my eyebrows to the movement of their ears, and they tend to move their ears in the way I would have if I had cat ears. We understand each other pretty well. They're still spoiled though. But they're my only IRL friends. Haha.

I'm the same way, me and my pets are buds supreme and I lead cause i can open cans lol
I so spoil my pets too, and mine are about my only IRL friends as well.

 

[SaintEliza]

@charrio: I lead because I'm bigger and sit higher up than they do. o - o But they also know that they can't get away with misbehaviour with me. (Such as finding/stealing/tearing open the treats and then eating ALL of them. That I don't allow.) I try to spoil them with toys over food. . -. Shadow's too fat for her own good, and she needs to lose a few pounds.. She's been on a diet though. And she does play. She just got a new toy the other day, AND I've given her a bunch of water jug rings too..which she promptly hides in random places. ^- ^ Morning knows I'm the boss, but she's second in command, and normally is the boss of everyone else. Though she's wimpy and let's everyone else have her dindin if I don't defend her place for her. Then we have the two boys, Clover and Silver. Clover's a giant buddy, he's black and fluffy, and his tail is super long. ^u^ And Silver is tiny tiny. We got Shadow, Clover, and Silver from the same place, they're siblings. And.. They tried to keep Silver, but they ended up almost killing him, they didn't feed him and didn't give him a litter dish, and they had a million other cats. So he's our tiny little dude. ^ u^

 

[Bonobosoph]

I sing to my cat. I think a lot of people talk to their pets, it's a pretty normal thing for animal lovers.
I talk to zoo animals too, orangutans are excellent listeners. Or they just can't be arsed to walk off, one of those. xD