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orangecrush

(19,655 posts)
Thu Jan 26, 2023, 11:34 PM Jan 2023

Do YOU talk "baby talk" to your pet?







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Yes
27 (68%)
No
7 (18%)
None of your business
1 (3%)
Who's a kute widdle puppy wuppy wuppers?
1 (3%)
My pweshus sweetie kiddy snookums!
4 (10%)
I'm too dignified
0 (0%)
My dog hates it
0 (0%)
My car hates it
0 (0%)
My dog loves it
0 (0%)
My cat loves it
0 (0%)
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Do YOU talk "baby talk" to your pet? (Original Post) orangecrush Jan 2023 OP
I regard my cat as a little hairy roommate with an attitude and a few strange habits, Ocelot II Jan 2023 #1
Same with my dog intrepidity Jan 2023 #9
Agree on the first part orangecrush Jan 2023 #17
I sweet talk to my Ruby..not baby talk but I do praise her a lot. Deuxcents Jan 2023 #2
Same deal with litter here orangecrush Jan 2023 #18
My cat's name is Mr. Boo so you guess my answer mucifer Jan 2023 #3
I hear in my imaginination orangecrush Jan 2023 #13
I also call my kitten a "bootyhole-licker" when she agressively grooms our older boy cat FirstLight Jan 2023 #4
Same here orangecrush Jan 2023 #14
... Faux pas Jan 2023 #5
I talk to my baby orangecrush Jan 2023 #16
Lol Faux pas Jan 2023 #26
I call mine sweetie, honey and baby Raine Jan 2023 #6
No shame orangecrush Jan 2023 #19
Yes, even to my deaf doggo. nt Laffy Kat Jan 2023 #7
He feels the vibrations orangecrush Jan 2023 #20
my Sally boy cat is my Little SallyManDer. Trueblue1968 Jan 2023 #8
Love it! orangecrush Jan 2023 #21
ALL of our 5 cats were rescue kitten cats. Trueblue1968 Jan 2023 #27
Noel says thank you orangecrush Jan 2023 #28
You kidding? I don't baby talk to babies. n/t malthaussen Jan 2023 #10
It's o.k. orangecrush Jan 2023 #22
Absolutely! Niagara Jan 2023 #11
THANK YOU! orangecrush Jan 2023 #23
My Cat RobinA Jan 2023 #12
My cat orangecrush Jan 2023 #24
If I don't, she'll think I'm talking to a person. raccoon Jan 2023 #15
It's a special language orangecrush Jan 2023 #25
you left off Conjuay Jan 2023 #29
you left off Conjuay Jan 2023 #30
You mean... orangecrush Jan 2023 #31
We try to be mature UTUSN Jan 2023 #32
Doesn't everyone? Me--Does wittle Dolly want mommy to give her a tweat? debm55 Jan 2023 #33

Ocelot II

(115,924 posts)
1. I regard my cat as a little hairy roommate with an attitude and a few strange habits,
Thu Jan 26, 2023, 11:39 PM
Jan 2023

rather than as a child, so I don't talk baby talk to her. I think she would be insulted.

Deuxcents

(16,382 posts)
2. I sweet talk to my Ruby..not baby talk but I do praise her a lot.
Thu Jan 26, 2023, 11:50 PM
Jan 2023

Even tho she splashes the litter around sometimes to my displeasure but I’m always sweet. I think

FirstLight

(13,366 posts)
4. I also call my kitten a "bootyhole-licker" when she agressively grooms our older boy cat
Thu Jan 26, 2023, 11:54 PM
Jan 2023

We tell the dog we're gonna "old yeller" her when she shits on the floor

And the loud ass older cat when he's singing the SONGGGG of His Peopleeee get's told to shut the fuck up!

But when they are being cute and fluffy, they are my little muffins and my dog is such a sweet bayyyby... we have many words of love and appreciation...


so yeah, toddlers without censorship

Faux pas

(14,700 posts)
5. ...
Fri Jan 27, 2023, 12:04 AM
Jan 2023

I didn't do baby talk to my children or my cats. I make up songs and stories and they all had a million nicknames. That's why my kids and all the cats I've had are/were so smart.

orangecrush

(19,655 posts)
21. Love it!
Fri Jan 27, 2023, 01:56 PM
Jan 2023


My little black Bombay is my little sweetie cat o nine and how could anyone be so mean to her? (She was a stray rescue.)

Niagara

(7,701 posts)
11. Absolutely!
Fri Jan 27, 2023, 11:15 AM
Jan 2023

Our senior cat is now 18 years old. She makes the rules in the house and sometimes without warning those rules change.


When I met her when she was only 8 years old, I talked her in a normal tone and she would growl at me. By the way, I'm a pet step-parent to her.


I started baby talking to her some years ago and she responds positively and is more agreeable. Some phrases are:


"Who's a cutesy-girl?"
"Who's a pretty girl?"
"Hi Honeypies!"
"Good girl."
"Such a happy, confident kitty."
"Do you wants pets at the food dish?"

Moppit only allows petting at the food dish and only at the food dish. If she's had enough, she will snip at the hand without taking the actual bite.


😻








orangecrush

(19,655 posts)
24. My cat
Fri Jan 27, 2023, 02:03 PM
Jan 2023

Is a miniature black panther (Bombay) whose breed was developed for exactly that purpose.

Her "unofficial" name is "Cat O Nine"


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