Do You Talk To Your Pets?

Hello friends talking with the pets are very nutty and awesome experience but those people who has not soft corner for pets cannot understand this feeling.

What do think guys an right or not?

I almost won't speak out, but by eye contact with dog. Otherwise I would like to get his answer.

Before I had to give my cat away I was always talking to her. She was an incredibly intelligent little thing and I can't help but hope she understood everything I said. I'll admit I found her better company sometimes than my now 3 year old, as terrible as that sounds, she was a lot more companionable whereas a toddler just runs rings around you all day!

Doesn't sound terrible at all! I totally know what you mean, as a WAHM with two kids at home all day this summer. I looked at my dog earlier today and said, "Can't we just duct tape them to the ceiling?" to which she grinned and wagged her tail. She MUST have agreed. LOL

I always talk to my pets! The dog isn't much for chatter, but miss kitty loves a good conversation whether I'm talking to her normally, or responding to her mewls with my own meows.

I don't think it is nuts at all to talk to your pet(s)! Animals may not be able to communicate back to us in a way that we can always understand, but they can be great listeners. My dog knows all of my secrets, and it makes me feel cheered up when I'm lonely to say hello to him and be greeted with a lick and a tail wag. He responds more to baby talk then he does to regular talk; high pitched baby voice makes him excited for some reason, hehe. My cat, on the other hand, prefers being spoken to in a lower tone of voice, and if I say something to her she always responds back to me with a purr or a mew. I find it very comforting. I don't really know of any pet owners that don't spend at least some time talking to their pets, actually! Why wouldn't you, after all? They never interrupt, they always listen well to what you say, and even a reassuring meow and woof, or a slight tilt of the animal's head to show reaction, can be enough to make you feel better. Many people call animals therapeutic, and for good reason.

I think talking to pets is a common thing .I regard my pets as my family ,so i always talk to them even sing to them .Though they can't react like a human ,they can understand me .Really good thing !

I always talk to my cats. They are my babies and they are great company. I wouldn't have a pet if I was just going to ignore it. What would be the point of that? I think most people talk to their pets even if they don't admit it. There is nothing nutty at all about talking to your fur babies.

This thread reminds me of this study I read about a while ago: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature...our-voice/

Have any of you read it? Apparently dogs' brains respond to human voices in a very similar way to how humans respond to each others' voices. This is what makes them so responsive to our voices and so good at being able to detect our emotions from our tone of voice. It's one of the ways they've evolved to live with humans. Isn't that cool? It sounds like it's not so crazy to talk to your pets after all!