Do you sing to your dog?

[Spidey66]

My husband thinks I'm barking (see what I did there) btw. But I'm always making up daft songs for the dog, usually replacing her name for another name in a song.

Her name's Maggie, so for example I'll sing the 80s song Mickey but replace ''Mickey'' for ''Maggie''. Or I'll sing the theme tune to Rupert (showing my age there) but instead of Rupert the Bear, it will be Maggie the Dog.

Please tell me I'm not alone, before my husband gets me sectioned.

Frequently, I make up songs about how much I love her, how smelly she is - all sorts of songs. Don’t sing to anyone else !

Yes
Made up songs about how greedy/glossy/naughty he is
Some of them are quite good!

Yes, mostly ‘I love my dog’ by cat stephens.
He has really good taste in music! Better than DH!

If I had a maggie I would sing Rod Stewart wake up Maggie!

I do. I sing the Fishy in a Dishy song every night at tea-time to the dog. It goes You shall have a fishy, in a little dishy, you shall have a fishy when the boat comes in. And the dog dances in excitement.

We then shout Ooh..the fishy is a dishy song! It's teatime!. and then we feed him cat food because he likes salmon and tuna better than manly dog food...

I also sing lots of other silly things at him. And I do his voice in return

He has a voice like the Elephant Man when you give him dog food. He looks down at it in disgust and then looks up at you and I say, I am not an animal! I am a human being...

Yes... and they love it...obviously. 🤣🤣🤣

Oh yes.I made up 2 within a couple of weeks of having her.

She literally raises her eyebrows at me when I do it now. And she has very substantial eyebrows.

I also do it in the street and don't give a fuck.

Yes of course!!

Mostly 'His name was Baxter, he was a show dog' to the tune of Copacabana (he is far from show dog!)

If I had a maggie I would sing Rod Stewart wake up Maggie! grin

She does get that one occasionally too.

Mostly 'His name was Baxter, he was a show dog' to the tune of Copacabana (he is far from show dog!)

That made me laugh!

I play the piano to mine, she like the Bach Goldberg variations, not too impressed with Albeniz Iberia (tries to sit on my lap to shut me up) she really like Debussy and will get as close as she can to the soundboard which actually stops me pedalling properly. Her reaction to hindemith was very funny and she left the room, to be fair I agree with her.

Yes I sing random songs.......and dance it makes one of my dogs bark and run round in circles. I never know whether its because she wants me to stop or to encourage me to do it more.

We sing all the time to our dog, and he sings back 🤣

We're quite the ensemble!

@TokyoSushi

Mostly 'His name was Baxter, he was a show dog' to the tune of Copacabana (he is far from show dog!)

Love this 😊

@tokyosushi I use that song for my dog too

Plus lots of other made up nonsense.

Theres a possibility that I sing soft kitty, but rewritten to be soft shiby (hes a shiba inu), I mean, I can neither confirm or deny this...

Our dog is an ex racer and his racing name was an old country song, I sing that to him a lot. That and 'my lovely horse' from father Ted. With dog substituted for horse. He pretends not to like it but I know he loves it really.

No. But he loves playing Itsy Bitsy Spider! He pretends that he doesn't, but the fact that he's lying on his back waiting is a dead give away!

@TokyoSushi

Mostly 'His name was Baxter, he was a show dog' to the tune of Copacabana (he is far from show dog!)

I do this too, but it's normally 'His name is Dexter, he is a stinker' when he farts.

DH sings the Cheers theme at our other dog and she sits there and gazes at him when he does, its so sweet. (I get disapproving looks from her if I sing it)

Currently our whole family sings Deck The Halls with Nell and Polly...

our current visitor is a reluctant eater so I have made up The ChickenyBreakfast Song AND because I am so smart we also have The ChickenyTeaTime Song, sung along to whatever is on the radio with occasional ad libbing over how tasty the chicken is, or how many scoops of dog food there are to go, and how the cats would also love chickeny food so he'd better hurry up!

It's helping!

Dh won't sing though...he favours the Rex Harrison approach spoilsport

@SimonJT

Theres a possibility that I sing soft kitty, but rewritten to be soft shiby (hes a shiba inu), I mean, I can neither confirm or deny this...

We had 'soft puppy' !!

@TokyoSushi

Mostly 'His name was Baxter, he was a show dog' to the tune of Copacabana (he is far from show dog!)

Omg I sing this to mine too! Am going to sound mean though as sing it as “his name was Bertie he is a shit dog” (this came about as dh and I say he’s a but rubbish at being a dog as he assumes he’s human).

All the time - I’ll spare you the details

Just rtft and realised that Copacabana seems to be a song of choice for many of us!