Hopefully its not just me being really strange but when you talk as your pet (whichever animal that may be) talking to yourself, do you use a specific voice and if so does would that voice be the same for all pets of that species.

The ferret talks in a cute somewhat silly voice
The rabbit talks like a bogan not sure why
The cat is always annoyed when he speaks

I don’t imagine voices, but when I imagine my dogs and bird’s thinking, their attitudes are different. The dog is positive, happy and admiring. The bird, being a smart little thing, simply frustrated and annoyed with being underestimated.

Cymek said:

Hopefully its not just me being really strange but when you talk as your pet (whichever animal that may be) talking to yourself, do you use a specific voice and if so does would that voice be the same for all pets of that species.

The ferret talks in a cute somewhat silly voice
The rabbit talks like a bogan not sure why
The cat is always annoyed when he speaks

often with me it’s a type of regressed speak, minus the expectation of literal understanding, similar might have engaged my own children when very young, or still do playfully as adult, friendly tones being more important

but yeah some of what would be otherwise boring internal monologue becomes dialogue, imagined, imaginary largely, engaging imaginary friends, an imaginary aspect of the relationship, involving attribution of worded thoughts (or feelings) to whatever creature

interesting, or not, I find internal monologue, the inner voice, to be a strange thing when I start to think about it. I mean what is it really, what could it be, really, why that particular tone, why that voice. I mean there’s nothing to say the sound waves really are like that, it’s near entirely a processing artifact after the transducer (ears)

transition said:

Cymek said:

Hopefully its not just me being really strange but when you talk as your pet (whichever animal that may be) talking to yourself, do you use a specific voice and if so does would that voice be the same for all pets of that species.

The ferret talks in a cute somewhat silly voice
The rabbit talks like a bogan not sure why
The cat is always annoyed when he speaks

often with me it’s a type of regressed speak, minus the expectation of literal understanding, similar might have engaged my own children when very young, or still do playfully as adult, friendly tones being more important

but yeah some of what would be otherwise boring internal monologue becomes dialogue, imagined, imaginary largely, engaging imaginary friends, an imaginary aspect of the relationship, involving attribution of worded thoughts (or feelings) to whatever creature

interesting, or not, I find internal monologue, the inner voice, to be a strange thing when I start to think about it. I mean what is it really, what could it be, really, why that particular tone, why that voice. I mean there’s nothing to say the sound waves really are like that, it’s near entirely a processing artifact after the transducer (ears)

Peoople who spend a lot of time alone get to chat with themselves a lot.

transition said:

Cymek said:

Hopefully its not just me being really strange but when you talk as your pet (whichever animal that may be) talking to yourself, do you use a specific voice and if so does would that voice be the same for all pets of that species.

The ferret talks in a cute somewhat silly voice
The rabbit talks like a bogan not sure why
The cat is always annoyed when he speaks

often with me it’s a type of regressed speak, minus the expectation of literal understanding, similar might have engaged my own children when very young, or still do playfully as adult, friendly tones being more important

but yeah some of what would be otherwise boring internal monologue becomes dialogue, imagined, imaginary largely, engaging imaginary friends, an imaginary aspect of the relationship, involving attribution of worded thoughts (or feelings) to whatever creature

interesting, or not, I find internal monologue, the inner voice, to be a strange thing when I start to think about it. I mean what is it really, what could it be, really, why that particular tone, why that voice. I mean there’s nothing to say the sound waves really are like that, it’s near entirely a processing artifact after the transducer (ears)

Yes it helps make adventures the ferret and I go on more fun and silly when I talk for her

Cymek said:

Hopefully its not just me being really strange but when you talk as your pet (whichever animal that may be) talking to yourself

the dog does not have a human voice.

Cobbett nudges me with mallard duck toy. He knows it is my favourite. Me: You’ve brought me the duck. Dog: races across room and points at scotch finger biscuits. Me: they are my biscuits. Dog: Stares at my biscuits.

dv said:

Cymek said:

Hopefully its not just me being really strange but when you talk as your pet (whichever animal that may be) talking to yourself

Cripes, what a meme.

I’m in agreement with dv here.

But mrs m has a different opinion, in agreement with Cymek.

Cymek said:

Hopefully its not just me being really strange but when you talk as your pet (whichever animal that may be) talking to yourself, do you use a specific voice and if so does would that voice be the same for all pets of that species.

The ferret talks in a cute somewhat silly voice
The rabbit talks like a bogan not sure why
The cat is always annoyed when he speaks

Mrs m says same voice for cats and small dogs. Baby talkish.
Different talk for big dogs.

Years ago I bought a book called; “How To Talk To Your Cat”
Cracked it open and read, “The same way you talk to anyone else.”

It went on to say,
“They understand you far more than you give them credit for.”
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2nd strangest thing that ever happened to me was my fastidious cat, Red
studiously cleaning the shiny white patch on his hind leg, then started on his front paw.
I was only vaguely aware of this, since I was standing next to him talking on the telephone.
I just mindlessly reached out and stroked the still damp leg,
when I “HEARD” him YELL Directly Into My Brain/Mind;

“HEY! I JUST CLEANED THAT SPOT!!!!”

I nearly dropped the receiver… staring eyes agog!

And I saw the LOOK on his face, “Oops! You Heard That?”

and I thought back, “Yes, I did!”

Then I got the impression/image of him on a dissection table in a lab,
in full knowledge that he’d Broken THE CARDINAL RULE For Pets & Animals.
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OK, so I’d have excepted that I’m a little nutty too… until I got verification one morning:

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A few years later I was co-habitating with another cat (Eartha Kitt a.k.a. “Miss Thing”)

I was working on something complicated in my office, when SHE asked to be fed.
Still going over what I was in the middle of writing, I got up to preform the familiar task.

We kept the opened can of food in the fridge, simple task, Cat indicates she’s hungry..
get up from the computer, go to kitchen, grab a tablespoon, open fridge, take out can,
remove lid, go to empty dish, scoop out some of the cold thick sticky food,
bringing down the spoon sharply in order to transfer the sticky food to the waiting dish.

I “HEAR” the same phenomenon I’d heard years earlier;
“DON’T ‘FLOP’ MY FOOD!!!, What is this… The POUND?!?”

(I got the distinct impression of prisoners in a Food Hall getting Sloppy Food Splatted
onto one of those sectioned metal trays, mashed potatoes & gravy splashing everywhere)
She was plainly glaring at me as I silently apologized promising not to do that in the future.

Fast forward to the evening of the same day,

I see Ted walk passed my desk headed for the fridge
suddenly he’s standing next to me still holding the tablespoon & can,
…with a SHOCKED Look on his face.. without prompting he says;
“SHE Just TOLD Me ‘not to “FLOP HER FOOD!” …wot is this..? The POUND?!?!’

What could I say beside, :) “Yeah, She TOLD Me The SAME Thing This Morning.”

I went on to describe the scene with the slop splashing onto the tin tray,
and he said, “YEAH! That’s what I saw too!”

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OK, 20 years on and I’ve come to find that even insects can communicate like that
the trick seems to be to “Have your MIND in a kind of neutral Zen State
Ceasing your constant chatter (internal dialogue) is pretty difficult
but it’s at those times that they can break through our noise.
(and I assume each other, obviously cross species )

OK, Simpler than that,
You know how we’re used to talking TO our Pets, then as the original poster queried,
Using A Voice (putting words in their mouths) that actually seems to fit every situation;

SECRET, You’re NOT “putting the words in their mouth”
It’s THEM.. Putting Their WORDS In Your Mind!

What does this look like:

btw, they’re also able to indicate “YES & NO” making communication easier still.

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OK, OK, I get it this is a Science Forum
Waiting for the DEMANDS For Scientific PROOF

I have none, I’d never breach their TRUST
I too don’t want to see them dissected or with electrodes up their butts.

Just own that it’s you’re assumption that they’re “JUST Dumb Animals”
that Keeps Your Mind Closed.

from above:

It’s rather humbling to realize
that they can understand our language
far better than we can understand theirs..

begs the question
which of us is actually “DUMB”?

just sayin’

I imagine that the dog internal monologue is pretty much exactly like this.

Spiny Norman said:

I imagine that the dog internal monologue is pretty much exactly like this.

:)

Spiny Norman said:

I imagine that the dog internal monologue is pretty much exactly like this.

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Ogmog said:

from above:

It’s rather humbling to realize
that they can understand our language
far better than we can understand theirs..

begs the question
which of us is actually “DUMB”?

just sayin’

ALL of our languages? Or our body language perhaps.

Spiny Norman said:

I imagine that the dog internal monologue is pretty much exactly like this.

cracked us both up here

chuckle

Spiny Norman said:

I imagine that the dog internal monologue is pretty much exactly like this.

PMSL

Thanks

Spiny Norman said:

I imagine that the dog internal monologue is pretty much exactly like this.

Some dogs think like that.

Others think more like this:

My cat is constantly meowing at me for no explicable reason.
She gets the shits on when I dont respond.
Obviously the language is perfectly clear to her.

gaghalfrunt said:

My cat is constantly meowing at me for no explicable reason.
She gets the shits on when I dont respond.
Obviously the language is perfectly clear to her.

I think in My Fair Lady, they have a song about that.

PermeateFree said:

gaghalfrunt said:

My cat is constantly meowing at me for no explicable reason.
She gets the shits on when I dont respond.
Obviously the language is perfectly clear to her.

I think in My Fair Lady, they have a song about that.

The Butcher birds have a distinctive alarm call for goannas. Quite different to their other alarm calls.