I do not do this much with the dog I have now, but as a kid in the 80’s I would do this a lot with the dog of my childhood. (RIP, Jessie. She was an Irish Setter.)
First, I would hold her by the snout (she didn’t mind) and sing into her nose. To me the nose looked a little like a microphone, so I would say, “Microphone Dog”, a few times, just to get the soundcheck, a course. Then, to the tune of the theme song from Mork and Mindy:
I frequently substitute their names for names in songs - “Peggy And Her Gallant Soldier” becomes “Penny And…,” and “Mallie Lee” becomes “Penny Lee.”
We sing “Mr. Mojo Rising” to the Mojo-dog. And we sing Mojo Nixon songs to him, since that’s who he was named after.
Hmmm…I can’t think of anything specific that we sing to Binkley.
My dad just makes up lyrics - I’ll never forget catching him singing to our Dachshund, to the tune of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic:” “I see the little Doxie and she’s sitting on the chair…”
Valen (nicknamed Duff, or Duffman) gets “DUFFMAN…” sung to the theme of Batman on a regular basis.
and to the Arrogant Worms song Billy the Theme Park Shark gets recycled as: “Valen, the theme park putz… performing tricks for tourists that have paid five bucks a head… Valen the theme park putz… he looks just like a killer but he’s too well fed…”
(That last one gets used for all dogs: Spanky, and Zap (sung as Zapper))
Zap gets the “You are my puppy, my only puppy, you make me happy when skies are greeeeey…”
and "If you’re a puppy and you know it shake a paw… "
We also sing variations on “Puppies in the niiiiight, exchanging putzes… lovers at first siiiight… feeling my nutses…”
I don’t sing to Brutus,but I talk to him,and he understands most
of what I’m saying.If I could find a woman with his qualities I
might consider remarring.