Am I the only one who has full on conversations with their pets?

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Teenage DD has just told me I am odd for talking to our animals. This is after telling the dog he could not go out yet until his operation wound has healed and then telling the cat (who wanted the door opened then did not want to go out because it was too cold) that if he was a real cat he'd go out to play anyway.

My view is that it is just part of pet/owner interaction. I can't just ignore them so I might as well say something half way sensible. They give the appearance of listening though I'm not daft enough to believe they understand what I am saying.

Does anyone else talk to their pets in this way or am I indeed odd?

My parents have full personalities for all their cats, Alive and dead. And for my cats as well.

Loving the stories here. I KNEW there must be others!

1year old beagle (Buddy) is literally my best friend! I talk to him all day long 😂 most of the time he answers me back!

Well obviously. You can't just ignore them when they talk to you. I'm pretty sure DGirlDog actually has a whole special vocabulary for talking to humans.

She certainly has a special sound for telling us to fuck off/gofuck ourselves/no fucking way...

I have pretty short onesided convos with rebelcat. However,one particularly stressful week i kinda lost it and asked him to get me the remote off the floor and then told him off when he wouldn't.

Pressed send to soon. Conversation went like this:
Me: rebelcat grab the remote for me please.
Cat: licks his arse
Me: stop that i asked you to bring the remote!!
Cat:looks at me with dumb face.
Me: don't look at me like that! You have to help out you know!
Cat:meow!
Lightbulb moment in my head...shit I'm talking to a cat!!

I have conversations with my 4 dogs. I can't help it.

I don't have any pets but saw this in active conversations ... I talk to my neighbours cats all the time and they seem to talk back

Not weird at all.
I used to have a guinea pig who would shout at me when I walked in until I said hello to him.
And I have full blown conversations with the turtles.

Of course! I have long conversations with my dogs. They all have particular voices - the eldest has a posh voice, the middle one Eastern European and the youngest sounds like a teenage girl from sarf London. The voices all match their personalities.

They like a good chat, have lots of opinions and are very quick to voice complaints.

When my kids were little and had friends round for tea I used to ask them loudly if they'd told their friends we had talking dogs ...

My dog expresses surprisingly nuanced opinions on Trump. Also gives me advice about the kids. He's the best boy.

I see the car as a member of the family - caring for it and talking to it is the least I can do in way of thanking it for protecting us and taking us to places and on holidays and creating memories with us.

We recently got a new car for me and donated the old one to National Public Radio here in the US. That car had all of my children in it through elementary school, middle school, high school. Loads of lovely times with 7 little girls in the back singing or talking. My son learned to drive in it. Parents at the schools recognised the car and would salute me or stop to chat. I had some great chats with my kids in that car and some fab laughs and drove some horrible scary difficult journeys too.

The day they came to take it away, they towed it. I took a picture of the poor car nose down being dragged away. I fucking felt like I had sent Ginger to the knackers yard. Even dh was emotional.

Definitely not the only one :D

I get more sense out of my dogs than my DP sometimes so no you're not the only one!

I talk to my mums cat on the phone, and she talks to my dog on the phone. Sometimes the dog and cat even talk to each other on the phone. Perfectly normal.

No, I don't think you're the only who talks to her pet regularly. I always do because I feel that we need to get close and interact with them too.

Who doesn't?

Of course!

My old girl cat chats back too. You'd be odd not to, I think.