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People who have one-sided conversations with their pets, why?
People who have one-sided conversations with their pets, why?
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It’s not one-sided. There’s plenty of meows.
Your pets might not understand your words, but they understand the fact you’re making noise at them and your overall demeanor when you do so. They understand that you’re communicating w them, and it’s good for the development of your pet for you to do so
He NEEDS to know he’s “my little man”.
Because it would be rude to ignore them.
I have nobody to talk to
Because I live alone and it makes me less lonely
People who talk to their pets may be seeking companionship, venting or simply trying to pass the time. It can also be a way of providing comfort and reassurance to the pet, or even an attempt to make them feel included in conversations.
It’s fun! I also like to gossip to my cats about my wife when she can overhear from the other room. I think I’m hilarious
Why not?
I have two dogs. One is a comedic genius and it would be rude to ignore his impeccable timing. The second dog is so dumb she needs all the help she can get.
It’s not one-sided, my cat understands me, and some of her meows sound like “fucking no!”, then are followed by actions that say “fuck off”, some of her meows, combined with her body language sound like “what the fuck are you doing in front of that shining, flat thing? Pet me instead!” And some sound like “I need something, help me”.
I just helps me to feel less lonely
My dog refuses to talk back
Why do you think that they are one sided? 😏
They like it when I talk to them. The always come over to me and make little meows back at me.
Because its engaging and they tend to like it. I tend to like it too 🙂
I have a parrot and as soon as I take him out of the cage I talk to him and him alone, staring at his eyes, so that he knows he’s important and that I care. This *just us” time, even if he’s in my shoulder part of the day, I feel it’s important to make him feel glad at the start of the day. Makes me happy too to see him every morning.
Because they like to hear me talk to them. My dogs 100% know what it means when I tell them they’re good boys.
Because what are you going to do? Pet it in silence? No noise. No thoughts. Only pets.
I talk to the rabbits and squirrels every now and then
Mine talks back
Animals communicate in many ways but I’m pretty sure language in the form we use it with very specific meanings for things is pretty much just a humans type deal. But it’s the way we communicate. Mycats meow at me and communicate that way. What kind of a psycho caretaker would I be to them if I didn’t respond and let them know whats up. We’re in the same pack after all.
Because she can’t speak English.
They listen
Because you never know what they understand.
My dog has figured out a few words on his own because i narrate what he’s doing
It’s only one-sided because they’re very rude.
I can’t possibly imagine having conversations with my cat, in much the same way that I *definitely* don’t sing to them every morning either.
Part of being best boy is being the least judgmental therapist one can ask for
Because I want to tell my cats how stupid and fat and annoying they are but despite that I will commit war crimes for these little gremlins.
Also- cats like it when you ‘baby talk’ to them.
Because she needs to know she’s my cutey princess buttermuffin!
It’s like that thing programmers do, rubber-duck decoding. Talking to something instead of talking to yourself makes a difference somehow.
OP must not be a pet person.