I do, and my parents do, but my sister thinks it’s disrespectful.
Do you?
How can I not? Dey are just such cutie-wooties!
Of course, they’re my babies!
“Disrespectful”? How does that work? 
Yes. Not as bad as my friend does it … she goes annoyingly high and it is awful. But I absolutely baby talk to my dog.
Maybe the difference is size? Her dogs are like 5# and mine is 90#. Smaller animals command higher, more annoying baby talk?
If he’s a good boy, yes I do, cause he’s a good boy! When he’s a bad boy, I use my gruff voice. He doesn’t even pretend to be scared.
For his part, he whimpers at a real high pitch if he wants me to feed him, a lower whine when he wants to play with his friends, and a big bad Wolf voice when he’s trying to scare away evil walkers. Otherwise, he’s pretty mute.
Oh, God no. My mother does it and it turns my stomach. I have an actual baby at home, and I think I sound like an asshole when I slip into baby talk with him. I can’t stand it.
The worst. The absolute worst, is when I hear people talking to old men or ladies like they are infant children.
Disrespectful? I don’t get that at all. It’s just kind of stupid. That’s all it is.
Yes, I do. Usually not in front of other humans, because I’m afraid that I’d induce nausea in the humans. The cats seem to enjoy it, though.
Of course, the cats enjoy most interactions. Even when I tell Charlie that he is a bad, bad kittycat, if I say it in a pleasing tone, he’s happy. And he IS a bad, bad kittycat. He trips me up because he wants to make me spill my tea so he can drink it. And I refuse to let him have his own little cup of tea when I have one. He’s hyper enough as it is, he doesn’t need caffeine. I love him, though. Just now I had picked him up and was cuddling him, and he put his head on my shoulder and purred in my ear and snuggled. How can I resist that? And I did talk babytalk to him.
It’s all about tone of voice. Our one dog is protective of me when someone approaches. I use, “(S)he means us no harm” as a way of telling her to chill and stand down. It works, and it gets laughs.
Only when they ask for it. Most of the time Pixel and I keep the conversation professional and uplifting.
I used to do it ironically, to mock him for his thumblessness joie de vivre, and the way strangers gush over him, but now I do it for real.
I don’t talk baby talk to my dog, but I address him in the third person. “Does the dog want to go out? Huh? Does Brewster want out?” When I get up in the morning, I’ll also say “Morning! Morning!” to him the way the robot from Lost in Space says, “Warning! Warning!”
No. Not at all.
I went to far as to say ‘please’ and ‘thank-you’.
And if I make her wait for me to let her out or in, I apologize with a sincere ‘I’m so sorry, your Majesty’
No. We do use smaller words when we talk to the puppy, though, and we try not to curse.
ETA: We do use a couple of words that come from actual baby talk, that of my niece (who now has 4 kids of her own). We fill their food dishes with “hungries,” and we fill their water dishes with “stirsties.”
My husband and I don’t babytalk to the cat, but, we do order her around in German. Aus! Nein! Schnell! and sometimes Germanglish: Kein gescratchen!
Neither of us actually speak German. When tried to remember how we started this habit, we failed. It always has been and always will be.
I don’t do it, but then I didn’t baby talk my baby either. It just doesn’t come naturally for me. I don’t really care if anyone else does, though.
I don’t understand how it’s disrespectful. To whom is it disrespectful? to the animal? to babies?
Sure. I don’t babytalk actual babies, but I’m not going to hinder a cat’s language acquisition, so why not? “Boo Boo! He’s such a pretty boy, oh he is…”
Baby talk? Not the wubby bubby kittykins type. But I do sweeten my voice and kind of say silly things. Like “Hey you…what’s up in kitty world”?
I say all kinds of silly things to my dogs. I also do voices and have them talk back to me. Yeah, I’ve lived alone for too long. From the dogs’ point of view, I don’t think they think I’m dissin’ them when I talk nonsense to them. They seem to like the attention.
The cat talks back to me. Probably kitten talk, but I’m so clueless I can’t tell he’s disrespecting me and just think it’s cool that we’re having a conversation.