do you have a special voice that you use for talking to dogs & cats?

Oh, wait! You asked how we talk TO our animals?? ha ha

I tend to sing to them. F talking. I have to do that all day at work.

(Note: this may or may not be true, and I may or may not just actually talk to them fairly normally, and I may or may not have made this up just to have something to contribute).

I keep thinking I can do something with this. If I were that chick from that show where her dad was an alien in a box, I would stop time and figure out what to do with it. Since I'm a guy and this isn't television and my dad's in New England, it's a moment that came and has passed untouched and unspent.

Yeah like fingersnaps, hand claps, patting, pointing, etc.

Ditto. But it's more like I talk to/treat babies like I talk to/treat animals.. When my cousin brought her daughter to town, she kept coming up to me, and my first reaction was to toss her toy and let her fetch, like my cat. I decided the rest of the family wouldn't find that amusing.

Kids give me the creeps, I avoid being around them as much as possible.

My husband is Monkey, as am I to him. But we use relatively normal tones of voice with each other.

my ma has a special voice just for stupid people and kids, i could always tell when one is on the phone.

These conversations can go for hours.

"Furrymoopuss! Ooh, you are a furry cat. You *are* furry. Not just furry, also purry! Big fat purrypusscat!"

(oh dear, it looks even sillier when written down)

Field Marshall Manstein trained his dachshund to lift up its paw whenever anyone said "Heil Hitler". This was the kind of thing people got sent to concentration camps for. the scamp.

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Dogs I am basically fearful of and just kind of make nervous noises to their owner. Cats I talk to in a normal human voice, rabbits too except if I think they're nervous and then I put on a "soothing" voice, eg. "good girl/good boy" or whatever. The girl rabbit (who is called Mymble) needs this a lot cos she is very friendly but nervous about actually being handled. The boy rabbit (who is called Goat) is much more used to handling but is naughtier (and needs neutering but it won't be safe for another month or two so he's always horny - Martin you were lucky to be handling him on the day before he started spraying piss everywhere!)

every time i come home i ask my cat "hi honey! are you OK?" and then i go on to ask her where she's been, what she's been doin.

i guess it's a little crazy but there must be more of me out there.

she meows and leads me to her food.

I greet my kitties, but I do not ask what they have been doing. Either I can guess or I'll find out real soon.

oh god, my other post on this thread is making me feel ill. WTF.

I'm always saying things to animals like, "Yeah, take it!" and "You know you love it, bitch!"
-- Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, August 26, 2003 7:23 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

LOLOLOL

oh, come on. That's just gross.

Has anyone else made up little voices FOR their pets so you can make up the pet's end of the conversation, too? I help my dog sing his Snitlandia National Anthem sometimes.

I hate to admit this, but I have a different voice/speech pattern for each cat, though I do have a default cats/dogs/babies silly voice.

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just got home. "u hungry?? okay, alright - i know. come here."

I sing stupid cat songs at my cat. With lots of dumb "mrroww meow maiuww" in place of like, Bauhaus lyrics or something.

HAHAHA

goth cats

White on mraow translucent black mraowwws

I was thinking the wailing at the end of "Stigmata Martyr" replaced with angry meowing and hissing

She gets the "FISHCAKES" thing sung at her a lot ;D

Except I sing "this is how you make cat food!" .. um. I'm a dork.

just got home. "u hungry?? okay, alright - i know. come here."

This is just par for that course, thought, not indicative of any special psychopathology.

i sing to the tune of 'who's afraid of the big bad wolf' (i think that's the tune..)

you're my kitty and you're so cute/you're so cute/you're so cute
you're my kitty and you're so cute/you're so cute it's craaazy.

adorable fluffy puddy tats got me all silly-cutesy-talking. but now i don't live with them anymore. :(

I have mentioned this before long ago but I still do it sometimes. I sing "Food for the Kitt-ay!" to the tune of "Fool for the City" by Foghat.

While I'm feeding them, of course.

i sing 'how much is that doggie in the window' as a way of reminding harry a) where i found him and b) that it was a simple fiscal transaction, then i ask him over and over if he loves me and i say 'isn't this better than the pet store,' 'aren't you glad we met,' 'you wouldn't ever leave me would you,' 'am i really prettier than all the other customers at the pet store,' etc. these are our salad days and we both know it.

none of that fuckin baby talk. i speak to them using proper english, like proper adults. that way, when they're on their own out there and they have to give a speach or do an interview or something they don't sound like fuckin hicks or whatever. knowledge is power.

...and no singing!

am i really prettier than all the other customers at the pet store

no offense, but sounds like you need someone other than a dog reinforcing things like that.

i sing to the tune of 'who's afraid of the big bad wolf' (i think that's the tune..)

you're my kitty and you're so cute/you're so cute/you're so cute
you're my kitty and you're so cute/you're so cute it's craaazy.

OMG AWESOME

i have a special voice that i use for reading kenan's posts

lemme guess... contempt and scorn?

blurry Nola

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the thing about dogs and cats...dogs are happy to have you talk to them. they're delighted to have you pleasantly interacting with them whatever sort of voice you choose to use. i adored my little dog, but i just talked to him normally (with lots of nicknames, of course). he would wag and kiss me on the tip of the nose (which i'd trained him to do so he wouldn't slobber all over my face).

cats, however, have this amazing disdain for affectionate humans (my black cat did anyway). so it's that much more delightful to lavish the kittehs with ludicrously cutesy affection.

see Nola's good cuz she's actually pretty good with affection but that's always been my perception as well! they rly make u work for it ; )

it's SO FUN to humiliate them.

when i was little i had a cat who would put up with anything from me. i used to carry him around my neck like a feather boa all the time and he was completely relaxed and tolerant. maybe he was too chill to be cutesy with, and hence my cutesy tendencies have only come out in recent years with cats.

ha. i kno it's too bad that they become punching bags for whims and affections but such is life =P

when we had a new cat and the black cat felt threatened, he became downright cuddly sometimes, so i teased him mercilessly and hugged him lots and sang to him. they act SO ANNOYED AND ABOVE IT ALL and they totally love it. he'd act like i was an insufferable crazy bitch and then keep laying down really close to me--so full of shit.

i really miss those little fuckers.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v616/j_bdules/DSCN0583.jpg

black cat--disdain for the world. fluffybutt--SO CUTE and SO DUMB.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA julia otm

omg, both of them. i love it when pets lean on their elbows.

also nola is cute, she looks like she is pretending to be a mouse.

=P those elbows are hot