Do You Say Excuse Me To Your Pets?

How do people want to be spoken to and treated?
Yup!

scientists claim dogs are as smart as toddlers and can learn up to two hundred words.

they can UNDERSTAND the language, they just cant speak it back.

Ha, that's because they won't let you forget it!

I stepped on my dog's paw one damn time...years ago! Now whenever I am asking her if she did something, she slowly raises that same paw to remind me of it. She even quivers her lips a bit to get to me.

I constantly talk to my kids and they talk back and get very involved in whatever I am trying to do.

When they demand something I jump right to it. I know my place. I bet I say excuse me at least four times a day. Repeatedly if I am trying to go to the bathroom and they are walking slowly.

I say "fuck outta da way DoGG"

I'm trying to teach the cat to say "yes, ma'am" and "no ma'am" but so far she just stares at me instead of repeating it.

LOL, yes I do say that to them. When I sneeze, my kitties say bless you in their own special sound. So cute. The boy comes in and says my name - the vowel sounds - to let me know the coffee is ready. He speaks in complete sentences, kitty speak.
But the other day, my girl cracked me up. I was about to clean the litter box when she came and sat there looking at it. I told her to go ahead, and I'd clean it after she was through. She gave me a look as if to say "no thank you, I'll wait." And she did. LOL

When the geese I feed daily show up, my babies come running in to tell me the geese are waiting. How sweet.

They surprise me and make me smile all of the time.

Ah yup. Do the same with the cat and dog.
I apologise if I stand on them by accident, not if they get underfoot.
Takes effort to do that when you're a German Shepard


Can also be amazing the vocabulary they pick up - you'll throw an off hand "oh just do x" and off they'll trot and do it

Yep... Usually when my 95 lb. dog tries to strategically block me from leaving the fridge area (he always wants cheese from the fridge)...

Lol, same here

No, OP. I tend to tell my cat, Tom-Tom, when I had him with me anyways, "Move it, Fur Thing!". He would usually give me a dirty look for it. Other than that meow at me for all of my love and attention.

This was awesome!

Fun thread!

And yes, we talk to our animals also, more than excuse me, and please and thank you.

Nice to see that pet lovers enjoy talking to their critters. Fun thread!

It's funny when I go get the eggs I ask if they did anything good, and they run in and start responding in their chicken language.

I recognize most of their eggs, and praise each one, and tell the others they will do better tomorrow.

One of our cats doesn't like us to shower without her, although she doesn't like to be in the room while we're showering, so she reaches under the door and pulls the dirty clothes out, lol. She's the same one who races me to the bathroom to guard the toilet.

As soon as the shower is done, and the door open, she jumps inside to lick up the remaining water.

I don't know why the one cat races me to the bathroom and blocks the toilet, lol. I say excuse me, and she moves away. I'm talking all day, if she's in the house, and in the middle of the night, and often that's her time, when I'm sitting, too bump my nose with hers.

My cat always wants to go before me into the toilet, and does it slowly. When I finally sit down I don't get allowed to sit for the demands.
She licks the water from a bucket. From glasses. Wants to cover any drink like wee.

I never know what to say to the cat, actually, so I've started this whole narrative in which I ask her how the cats are doing back in her country of origin and if she meows I say "And then they did WHAT to your village??" and "They burned down everything??"

I don't have problems....

Not at all.

I just have no idea what you're supposed to say when an animal is staring at you.

I lately often yell at my cat cause he's vacating behind my 55 inch screen and every time he jumps from it, ending his nap the screen is swaying like it would be earthquake.

He understands I'm angry but doesn't get the reason.

Good one, Sol-tari!

It's because he knows it's crap

My cat always comes thank me for food by stretching up to me handing up a spread paw, waiting for a stroke, while stretching, each time after food.

awww how nice sweetie. love your cat..

I planed to buy some firecrackers this season, pirate mark the green ones, for the catz. I mean I got bunch of stray cats outside about 8-10 always guarding my windows, downstairs, upstairs at the main entrance is one. Its very annoying but then I thought a bit and just let them be. Maybe they're guarding something who gives a shit...

When I feed my dogs their morning food I like to say. "What would you like today? The usual? OK. A bowl of dry dog food coming up!" They never laugh. Sometimes my little fuzzy girl gives me one of her looks. But deep down she knows it is funny.

Yep. And I say bless you when he sneeze's too.

Kitties are people too you know.

And they have a plan.

Maybe.

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