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The way I talk to my dog during lockdown shows I've gone mad

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itsnotmeitsu · 22/03/2021 18:01

Our house is surrounded by construction. The school field that was a home to so much flora and fauna, outside of our windows, is now having 100s of properties being built on. On the other side the neighbour has sold their garden and we have two semi-detached bungalows and eight apartments going up.

Today I found myself saying to my dog (who is an elderly rescue, and terrified of everything), "Don't worry; today I'm going to take you to work with the builders, and you'll see they're your pals, not your enemy" I had no intention of doing that to him, but I do feel like I use him as a sounding board, because real contact isn't allowed these days.

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GooodMythicalMorning · 22/03/2021 18:10

I'm the same! I'd probably get funny looks if anyone heard my conversations with my dogs.

StillMedusa · 22/03/2021 18:11

Well if that's mad I'm doomed... I have always had full conversations with my dog (and cats!)

FurrySlipperBoots · 22/03/2021 18:13

I had a chat with a random bee earlier, so I think you're ok!

hellsbells99 · 22/03/2021 18:15

I now sit talking to my cats all the time .....I think I am a mad cat lady

TeaMeBasil · 22/03/2021 18:23

Just today I've had numerous conversations with my cat, one with next doors cat, one encouraging pep talk to my chilli seeds and a guilty/apologetic chat to my under-watered wilty hyacinth.

I'd like to say this is due to lockdown but it isn't It's not even that I have no one else to talk to thanks to zoom work meetings!

Balaur · 22/03/2021 18:32

I peered over my garden fence this morning at two arguing cats (not mine for once) and said "what's going on here!? Who are you two anyway?" God.

CarrieMoonbeams · 22/03/2021 18:32

DH had gone to get his Covid vaccination yesterday, so I was walking 2 of our dogs.

I was chatting away to them, as you do, saying "daddy will be home soon, and then we'll all have a lovely play in the garden with your teddies, and then a wee nap before your dinner" .

Unknown to me, my next door neighbours were right behind me and said "ooh that sounds lovely, doesn't it doggies?!". I nearly jumped out of my knickers!! My neighbours felt really bad (I think so, between their fits of laughter anyway) and had to console me because I shrieked!

We're so lucky to have such good, fun neighbours, and it's certainly not news to them that I'm as daft as a brush - they often join in on the chorus over the fence if they hear me and DH singing to the dogs in the garden

WorraLiberty · 22/03/2021 18:34

The way my dog talk to me, shows he's gone mad.

I fear for his sanity, I really do.

Notreallyhappy · 22/03/2021 18:36

It's ok.....your not mad just lonely. I have been having a chat with a stuffed toy called Jeff ( giraffe) who lives in a cupboard. 😂😂

lidoshuffle · 22/03/2021 18:43

At least you're talking to a living thing. I found myself saying to my handbag, "Come on Handbag, we're going for a walk!"

BLToutanowhere · 22/03/2021 18:52

It's when you get a response that you have to be worried.

lazymum99 · 22/03/2021 18:54

You think that’s bad. I talk to the dog and then put on a different voice as though he is answering back!

FurrySlipperBoots · 22/03/2021 21:30

@Balaur

I had to use my 'Strict Nanny Voice' with a couple of squabbling seagulls at the park the other day! Luckily it worked, or I'd have been undermined in front of my young charge!

JackieeWeaver · 22/03/2021 21:40

@lazymum99 yes! I do this. We love a good catch up, my dog and I. Be lost without him.

elizabethdraper · 22/03/2021 21:46

My husband has told me, he is divorcing me I was having a full blown conversation with both Robert Room and Fredwin fish about how rubbish Alexa is, and she never listens to me.

elizabethdraper · 22/03/2021 21:47

Robert Roomba, not Robert Room

ponygirlcurtis · 22/03/2021 21:54

I chat to my cats all the time. At least they reply, unlike my 15-year-old.

I also frequently talk to my robovac when he is doing his rounds. Last week he had gone under my bed and then needed charged so was pootling about aimlessly under there. 'Bob! Bob! Here boy, come out silly Bob' while making kissy noises and clicking my fingers. Then I remembered he wasn't an actual pet.

eatsleepread · 22/03/2021 22:17

My dog is a Shih Tzu, and they come from Tibet ... I think.
So I actually put on a Tibetan accent when I talk to my dog. I'm actually fucking Glaswegian.

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itsnotmeitsu · 22/03/2021 22:29

Everybody who's responded on here is absolutely brilliant :) It's really cheered me up (and reminds me I also talk to random objects just to amuse myself). I often apologise to a leaf when I've cut it off by mistake whilst pruning. @FurrySlipperBoots > I'm always telling the pigeons off who live in my garden for being cheeky, and then follow it up by telling any other birds to leave the pigeons alone. I also said to a dead bee the other day, 'Oh, I'm so sorry you're dead; I didn't know you lot were out and about yet.'

I'm struggling with an assigment I need to submit (OU) and thinking, should I drop out of this course, so was distracting myself. People who've posted their madness on here have had a really positive effect on my mood :-)

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slashlover · 22/03/2021 22:39

@lazymum99

You think that’s bad. I talk to the dog and then put on a different voice as though he is answering back!

I do that with the cat, she talks like a LOLCat

"Are you a pretty girl?"
"Yes mummy, I is the prettiest girl in the whole world."

"Do you want the chicken or the tuna Felix today?"
"I wants chicken."
"Is that tasty?"
"It's yummy!"

slashlover · 22/03/2021 22:42

Don't drop out. If it's October start then you have just over 2 months left, if it's a Feb start then speak to support to see if you can swap. Ask for an extension if you need it.

LetMeIn321 · 22/03/2021 22:46

@WorraLiberty

The way my dog talk to me, shows he's gone mad.

I fear for his sanity, I really do.

😂😂😂

LetMeIn321 · 22/03/2021 22:49

I talk to my dog like this all the time.. I talk to him constantly about all sorts. Sometimes we have full on arguments when he starts shouting at me for no reason. I honestly don't know what I'd do without him.

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itsnotmeitsu · 22/03/2021 22:51

Just read through the whole thread again and realise you're all absolutely mad :) How brilliant to find myself able to laugh out loud at this time of night, whilst slapping my giant greyhound on his bottom and telling him, 'You started this, you large-pawed fool'.

It's also reminded me that, during the first lockdown (all those years ago), I was crossing a road in my town when a father was saying goodbye to his daughter, and said, "And don't talk to any strange men". I was passing right next to him so I said, "Okay, I won't". I glanced back over my shoulder and he was looking as if he'd met a mad women and his daughter was in stitches. She was young and gorgeous, and I'm 60.

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itsnotmeitsu · 22/03/2021 22:52

Just to reiterate - you are all absolutely mad, and I love it :-)

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