That was my reaction, too. Are there seriously people out there with pets who DON’T talk to them all the time? 
My old Ladybug would “talk” if you asked her if Timmy was in the well.
“Ladybug. Ladybug. Is Timmy in the well? Is he? Is Timmy in the well?”
“WOOOF! RAWWWOOOAAAARRRR WOOOF! WOOF!”
God, she was an awesome dog.
I just brought my cat home yesterday. He was a bit out of it as he had just been neutered, but I talked to him the entire ride home. I figured it would be soothing to hear a friendly voice while he was stuck in that box in the car. It seemed to work, he only meowed twice on the trip. Mostly it was just rambling chatter in a soothing tone. (“Here we come up to Hazeltine, just a few more minutes” “That jackass just pulled out in front of us, he’s a bad bad driver isn’t he?”)
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My entire family has always talked to the dog. We also provide translation services.
For once I can type LOL and mean it. Thanks for that.
of course i talk to my two cats.
and to the dive master’s four dogs, two cats and velociraptor from hell (extra-large greenwing macaw [aka a really big-ass parrot]).
the macaw is the only one who talks back in understandable words: 'peekaboo, ‘pretty bird,’ ‘here kitty kitty,’ ‘well, hello!’ and many other phrases.
the cats and dogs just look real attentive and from time to time answer me in canine/feline-speak, which probably translates to: FEED ME! 
I have a completely psycho Quaker parrot. He had been abandoned at my clinic. I ended up taking care of him and I talked to him a lot when I was at work. I was eventually able to scratch his head. No one would feed him when I wasn’t there because they said he was psycho and would attack them. So I took him home and discovered that they were right, he is psycho. I can’t handle him anymore, he will attack, I have some wounds to my finger right now because his dish fell inside the cage and he attacked me when I reached in to get it. I still talk to him though and he makes different noises back. One day we heard him saying something quietly, my boyfriend figured out he was saying “asshole”. Now I never called him that name enough times for him to learn it so I’m guessing his previous owners said it a lot … probably after Fuggin* munched on they’re fingers.
*He’s Fuggin nuts!
poor thing… they’re tough to deal with when they’re like that. i have a few scars of my own from the dive master’s first macaw. she’d been stuck in a pet shop for a long time and was equally pyscho. i was just getting her to stop biting when she succumbed to a kitten bite several years ago. 
the current macaw has lots of personality and is far more tractable than her predecessor.
Yep, talk to dogs all the time. Mostly to tell them how good they are. 
Only have one now, a rescue we’ve had for two weeks. He’s a smart little bugger who appears to listen to everything we say.
Of course I talk to my puddy-tat.
She greets me at the door everyday after work and we have the usual how was your day talk. Then we talk about what to do for dinner and then we talk what we’re going to do that night. And we chit chat through out the night.
Seriously though my cat is the most vocal cat I have ever known.
I’ll be watching tv and she’ll come out of the bedroom andshe’ll be meowing as she walks down the hall and as she walks up to me and as she jumps on the couch and as she sits down and looks at me meowing the whole time. Then I pet her for awhile and then she jumps down and goes back into the bedroom.
Sometimes she’ll watch tv with me on the couch and she meows back to the tv. It cracks me up.
I talk to Daisy the yellow Lab because she’s the only one in my house who listens to me. Sometimes she does what I want her to, if she and I both happen to want her to do the same thing at the same time. Even when I completely fuck up (which does happen even at my advanced age) Daisy still likes me. I can forget to feed her once in awhile, and she doesn’t hold a grudge.
I don’t talk to the cat, though. He’s an asshole.
I don’t have conversations or anything with my Lab, but I will talk to her sometimes. This morning she rolled in something smelly outside and I told her “You’re a lady. Ladies aren’t supposed to roll in crap!” She just gave me this sad look. Oftentimes when I see her sprawled out on the carpet I’ll ask her how she’s doing and give her an ear rub.
oh yes definitely talk to the dog. Usually it’s something like “Ignatius, you have serious as mental problems” or “you are dumb as hell” I also accuse him of lying a lot.
ETA: my neighbor’s dog talks* to me * however. He tells me to shoot people.
I talk to my dogs, as well as any other dog I may meet. They like it, and so do I.
You’re welcome. 
I most definitely talk to my dogs! I have three. Lucy the Lab is the only one who comes and talks to me, though. When she’s bored and wants to go out, she’ll come up to me and WOOF! at me. And I’ve almost got her saying “mama.” She knows the most words/commands, too. Snausage, out, go, ride, get in the house!, no, ok, sit, stay, down, up, shake - probably some more that I can’t think of. She’s my baby. I also have an 11 yr-old Sheltie named Blaze, he’s pretty smart but old and slow and mostly doesn’t give a shit about anything but belly rubs. Little Ernie the Bichon can be an obnoxious little shit, but he’s mostly well behaved. I really need him to quit jumping on people, though. He knows a few words, and he knows the rattle of the potato chip bag!
I’m rambling, aren’t I? 
I love my pups! They’re family!
Yeah, my wife and I not only talk to our pug, we also talk for her. She always introduces herself. “Hi, Daddy. It’s me, the pug.”
Feeding time is usually, “Starving, Daddy! Starving pug! StarVING!!”
She frequently denies any mischief she’s been getting into. “Pug! Are you sniffing around that garbage bag?” “Um…nnoooooooooo…” She’s not a very good liar, though.
Yup, I am ashamed to say, I do the same. Max has his own little voice and carries on conversations with every family member. He is really quite witty and charming.
the dive master has a young female husky that i swear before god, could talk the legs off a chair.
she doesn’t do words, but i’ve never known a dog that woos the way this one does. and i do mean ‘woo.’
it’s not a howl and it’s not a growl. she starts in the lower register with a ‘woo’ and that single note can last for more than 30 seconds at a time and only goes up in pitch a little bit. and she always has her right paw up off the ground when she does it! we have no idea why she does what she does, but it cracks us both up every time she does it – and she does this a LOT. hands down she has the most attitude of any of his dogs and the woo definitely proves it. 
Yeah. I tell my cats hi when we pass each other in the house and ask them what they want when they meow at me. I also tell them to shut up and threaten bodily harm when they see me going into the kitchen and whine incessantly for food when I just fed them not that long ago.