Topic: Do you talk to your animals with "BIG SWEETY" or authoritative?

[ElCheapo]

Just a curious thing.

Do you address your animals in an authoritative voice or do you do the "BIG SWEETIE" goofy voice? WIth the Golden Retriever I do Goofy. With the #$%*su Pom I do the I'm gonna kick your but through your head voice  No, Not really that bad, but it is different.

[ohiocaferacer]

As I sneek up on my dog...in a low sneeky prevert voice.....here kitty....kitty??!!

My dog just turns around and runs, with its tail between it legs.......HA

[eldar]

My cats are dumb-asses and so need to be addressed as such!

[MetalHead550]

Ohza-bo!  Ohza-bobo-bo!  He's just a wittle snookums wookums!  

Damn it Rebel, get your ass over here NOW!  You little F***face!

Its pretty much Jakyle and Hyde.  When hes behaving himself(most of the time) its the stuipid baby talk that Im convinced I picked up from my mother.  He really is a sweety and its hard not to talk like that to him.  But he is one stubborn SOB hence the name Rebel.  Hes an English Pointer, Chocolate Lab mix(we think) I got from the humane society about a year and a half ago.  He didnt seem to have been abused, but was definitly severly neglected.  He was six months old and had no idea how to play!  And when I took him for walks he acted as though he was seeing the outdoors for the first time.  Unfortunately thats probably not far from the truth.  People suck.  He was a nightmare and I had another name already picked out but I renamed him Rebel...because he was/is.  I wont go into details but he turned out to be a damn good dog.  I definitly have a soft spot for animals.  I tend to be a hard ass with most people and they look at me funny when I act affectionate with their/my animals.  They have no hidden agendas, just a straightforward and innately loving nature that I admire.  

[MetalHead550]

Hey Cheapo,  I saw a bike that looked alot like the one in your avatar.  Some inbred dumbasses from my home town, where I no longer live because of all the inbred dumbasses, decided to check the fuel level in the tank with a lighter.  The rest is self explanitory.  Natural selection at work.

[eldar]

Geez what was he thinking using a lighter??? Everyone knows you check you fuel level with a match!!

[csendker]

I always thought one of those stick-lighter-butane things would work best because you can really shove it in the tank before you light it up.

Ever since my old dog went to the big doghouse in the sky (16 yrs. old, shelter mutt, best dog ever), my young one (now 5, black lab) has become the biggest wimp ever.  She's actually afraid of the ice maker on the fridge, barks at the humidifier and runs from the washing machine.  I have to talk nice to her or she'll have a heart attack.  She's a 70# lap-dog.

[cbjunkie]

#$%* i keep a box of sparklers in the shop - use'm to check the water level in my battery...


oh, sorry...on topic:

my boy is a lump of lard - he and i have gone through a lot of life - i mostly chuck 'im in the ear and call him #$%*
my little girl is a freek sweety, quick but as spastic as a rubber band - i am as sweet to her as most parents are to the second kid...unless she's engaging in her endless "lump farming" at 3 a.m.

[ofreen]

The tone I use depends on the circumstance.  If they have it coming, I'll use the authoritative voice, otherwise I'll use a normal tone.  Just like with the kids, although I'll say the animals are better behaved.  I can't say I ever use a baby or 'big sweety' voice.  I don't want them to think I am strange.  I can talk to the dog, and if I keep it reasonably simple, she understands pretty well.  I don't think the cat cares that much what I think or say as long as there is food in her bowl.

[csendker]

Food does seem to be the universal language for aminals, especially dogs.  Mine will do almost anything if a treat is involved.  I keep her food in a huge plastic bin; she's gotten in twice.  Not pretty.  She kind of wobbled and salivated heavily as I threw her outside just before she blew.  Glad the mess ended up out there and not inside.

[Uncle Ernie]

Ruby the cat (a rare orange female) is 20 and stone deaf. A cannon could go off next to her and she wouldn't notice.
Rosie is too smart and we sometimes have to spell words.  Usually I talk to her like anyone, but sometimes I try to talk in her language; wuffys, low growls, snuffs, woofs, etc.  When she's bad, I just squeeze her like a tube of tooth paste.

[Uncle Ernie]

Forgot the picture;

[MetalHead550]

Thats it!  Ive got PETA on your ass!  Take a picture of someone strangling youre dog will you?  And blindfolded no less.   

Yeah the funny thing about the lighter incident is that 3 of the said dumbasses were gathered around the bike to look in the tank and none of them figured it was a bad idea!  One even asked another for the lighter so Im told.  Burned part of the garage down too.  Jackasses.

[ohiocaferacer]

Heres my mutt.....shes part bird dog....likes to fly!!



Later,
Greg
www.OHIOCAFERACERS.com

[Uncle Ernie]

Dog Flight?! More like "The Last Thing I Saw Before The Screaming Started"

[8 Track]

I talk sweet and goofy sometimes but there's always that dominance thing being tested, so I have to keep them in check!

[Bob Wessner]

Never had to speak authoritatively to our dog Connie in 14 years. Besides, how could you.   

[ElCheapo]

Hey Cheapo,  I saw a bike that looked alot like the one in your avatar.  Some inbred dumbasses from my home town, where I no longer live because of all the inbred dumbasses, decided to check the fuel level in the tank with a lighter.  The rest is self explanitory.  Natural selection at work.

True, Never pump the stomach of the kid that eats all the marbles 

[mrblasty]

She is a sweet dog but very stubborn.  She is some kind of Chow mix. her name is ketchup

[seabird]

Male Cat - 14 months - Dottie (because he is) - normal tone unless trying to beat up his sister (see below) - then threatening tone backed by water spray bottle waved at him (results in rapid disappearence of said cat for other parts).  Rescue(d) from Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA)
Ebullient, too intelligent for his own good - will eat for England given the chance.  Black and White Domestic Short Hair.

Female Cat - 12 months - Sammie (for Samantha) - soothing tones (has never misbehaved) - Rescued from same location as her "Brother" - Extremly affectionate, but for the first two months, _very, very nervous (especially of too many legs/feet around her, resulting in high speed dives for smallest dark and inaccesible hidey-holes.  Our thoughts are that she had been kicked/abused as a kitten, so all speech to her is assuring/non-threatening.
Result:  now eager to be with me (not so much with wife - suspicious of female voices/feet) and has the loudest purr in nature.
A complete sweety, half the weight and belly size of her "brother".

[dusterdude]

twostroke,cool dogs

[Jonesy]

Here's one of our guys. We liken the one to the Monster Cat from Monty Python...

[8 Track]

twostroke,cool dogs

Thanks!  

[ElCheapo]

Polls, Movies, and humor? Talk about being moved to the bottom of the barrel? I guess it beats deleted 

Anyway I will post some pics of the Zoo I have.

1.) Ball Python (Royal Python - for those on the other side of the pond)
2.) 2 Cockatiels
3.) 2 Parakeets
4.) 2 Dogs
5.) 3 Cats
6.) Slider Turtle
7.) Guinea Pig

[jtb]

We've got two mutts, one came from the pound when he was 6 months old.  He also never learned to play, is deathly afraid of anyone but Martha and me.  He is too uncoordinated to run, he sort of hops.  He has two knicknames, "hoppy dog" because of his crazy gait, and DLP (defiant little prick).  When in DLP mode, we have to use the authoritative voice, but it really does no good.  The other dog, Angel adopted us, and pretty much lives up to her name.