Poll: Do you spaek to your pets?

[ohellynot]

I only really speak to my pets when no one else is around. Is this normal, probably not but I'm not going to stop

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I don't. I shout and swear at my sister's rabbit when I have to put it into the hutch at night, because it runs away into bushes and under the shed and just annoys me.

 

[shaltir]

...yes. i don't try to have conversations with em or anything, but i do say stuff to em

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I tell my cat to come here or stop doing something... I'm not like my step mom who looks through a magazine and asks her dog what he thinks of those shoes...

 

[Simalacrum]

does "oooooh cuchi cuchi, your a good kitteh aren't you?? yesh you are! oooh yesh you aaare!" count as proper communication? In which case yes, yes I do.

 

[Baby Tea]

Well, beyond commands, I don't have full conversations with them, but I will say 'hey buddy' when my dog walks over, and call him a good boy when he sits down and I'm scratching his ear.
I won't ask his how his day was, but I certainly do a sparse bit of talking.

 

[shaltir]

I tell my cat to come here or stop doing something... I'm not like my step mom who looks through a magazine and asks her dog what he thinks of those shoes...

lol, ok...at least i'm not like that

 

[ae86gamer]

Yeah. I talk to my cat all the time. Then again, I'm weird. >_>

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I don't currently have any pets, but when I did I talked to them all the time.

 

[The Riff]

Yes i do, even if they don't understand, but it's nice to speak to them, tell them how good they have been or bad.

 

[Fairee]

Of course it's normal, I always talk to Del Boy.

Actually, my whole family talks to him (apart from my older brother who has never really got on with guinea pigs). We see him as the fifth member of the family.

I even used to talk to my snail >///>...

 

[TriggerUnhappy]

No, I don't talk to my dog at all, I actually interact with other human beings, scary I know. The closest thing to talking with him is when I yell a command or start cursing at him for circling me for the 30th fucking time. Damn dog.... still love him though.

 

[Wilfy]

I ask my dog why we picked the stupidest puppy in the litter.

 

[PureChaos]

i talk to my 2 dogs. not exactly full conversations but i say hello to them and stuff. my mum's worse

 

[Arkitext]

Yeah. It's therapeutic to talk to an animal. They'll never answer back, or interrupt you like people will. It can be very constructive and comforting, kinda what a pets there for. It's only creepy and/or annoying when you expect them to understand everything you're saying beyond "No", "Good", "Bad", "Food", their name, and the names of any tricks they know. I get freaked out by those crazy people who are having serious full blown two-way conversations like their pets are psychic. My Mum often try's to convince me that her Cat can understand what she means when she flat out tells it "I'm cooking here, mind my feet!" *Facepalm*

p.s. It's hilarious that the word "Speak" is miss-spelt in the title of this topic. lolz "spaek".

 

[Nox13last]

The commands I give to my dogs are as follows:

"Hey, ratass!" - (Heel!) - Dos immediately come hither
"Oi!" - (Divert your attention to me, please.) - Dog(s) looks at me/where I'm pointing.
"What the hell are you doing?!" - (Bad dog(s)!) - Dog cowers
"Go buy yourself something pretty." - (I have dropped food. It is for you.) - Dog(s) sniffs ground for food.
"Bang!" - (Stop moving/Play Dead.) - Dog(s) slumps sideways
"Where should you be?" - (Move away from the front door, I'm leaving.) - Dog(s) sits on stairs.
*Loud howling/whimpering noise* - (Speak.) - Dog(s) also howls/whimpers
*Pulls hood over face* - (Lick my face.) - Let's not go there.
"Let's go Bimble!" - (Time for a walk!) - Dog(s) gets excited, makes racket, and pisses everywhere.

He's well-trained enough to collapse when I imitate a pistol, but he still craps in front of the door every night. The other one obeys these commands, but she's house-trained.
It's sort of a different language we got going. Apart from this, I have conversations, but it is normally derogatory to the dogs.

 

[Kajt]

Yes, I talk to my dog then and then, but usually just stuff like:

"Who's crazy? Who's crazy?"

"You wanna' go for a walk?"

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

Me: Hello there mister dog! How are you today?
My dog: rorrrngll*snort*
Me: Really? Well good luck with that.

 

[HardRockSamurai]

I tell my dog that she annoys me whenever I see her; trust me, she's REALLY annoying (imagine Snarf on a cocaine bender.)