Babytalk....does this annoy anybody else?

  Rupert loves baby talk. It makes his butt wiggle.

I'm guilty of using babytalk with my dog...

I would never ask someone else's dog a question like that, though, lol! That's just pretty rude to the owner. But I talk to animals all the time... "Hey, buddy, how's it going? What a handsome boy you are! Do you like scritches?" etc. But when I'm asking a question for the owner to answer, like how old is the dog, make eye contact with the owner to ask!
 

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  Rupert loves baby talk. It makes his butt wiggle.

lol so does Neiko. That butt goes a million miles an hour if someone baby talks to him.

So, I admit - I baby talk to dogs. I can't help it. Maybe it's a disease. 

You should have said...

"Huh...he won't tell you eh? That's weird....he talks all the time at home."

See, I talk to Apollo, like when I'm cleaning or doing laundry, I'm like "Well, we have to do the dishes because if I don't they'll never get clean. Will they?" but I talk to him in my own voice. He listens, has no clue what I'm saying, but his eye brows go up and down, sometime he'll do they head tilt.

ROFL!

I talk to my dogs in both voices. Conversational and "baby talk". ("Sees sutz a goo-girl"!) Anyway, LOL if someone asked my dog those questions, I would probably just stand there.

One further -- my husband HATES IT when a ***vet*** talks in a high squeeky voice to the dogs.  It absolutely, completely undermines any confidence David may have had.  David hates to hear anyone 'baby talk' the dogs - particularly a stranger.

 I would have said something similar to what Gina suggested ... altho I might have directed it at the dog in a sane, normal voice and said "Hey buddy -- the lady's talking to you ... you talk to ME all the time, what gives?  Is it that baby voice - it's really her talking,  I promise!!!"

It is a pet peeve of mine when STRANGERS talk to my dog in a baby voice.

I wouldn't call it a baby voice, but I do have this once voice that I use when I come home and say "did ju miss dah mo0o0omma! i luvz my monstaahhh..." or when we play hide and seek i'll use the same voice and be like "ganuuuush wheres dah mooommmiieee..." (as you can tell "monster" and "ganush" are her nicknames... random yes I know don't ask long story haha)

But when other people are talking to her in this high squeaky voice like "eeeeee hello widdle puppy" it annoys me... idk why lol! maybe because she looks annoyed. she'll look at them like "what is your problem lady..." haha

When I meet other dogs I never talk in a baby voice. I'll use a neutral calm voice and pet them. idk I think voices are a personal thing.

OMG and I totally know what you mean by "talking to the dog" another pet peeve. "eeee and whats ur name itty bitty widdle puppy!!" one time I said "well if dogs could talk she'd let you know her name was Kayla" the lady gave me confused look and was like "ha, whaaat?" lol

I'm with you.  I also talk to Willow in my normal voice.  And, I fill her in on what we've got to do today, LOL.  I'm not crazy about people talking to kids in that way either.  To me, it makes the dogs way too excited and it makes kids regress to acting way younger than they are.

I don't talk to anyone in a baby voice - dogs, babies, kids....  I suppose it's how I was raised.  My parents pretty much talked to us like normal and we got reprimanded for whining or talking like a baby (once we were like 2 years old or so).  I do sometimes talk to Kenya in a slightly higher voice, like "hi sweetie!" but not baby voices.  Ugh.  If I'm talking to someone else's dog, I just talk to them in my normal voice, but calm, slow, and quiet.

     Oh boy ... I am SO guilty of this lol  And I have a habit of doing it to the "big dawgs", especially the tuff lookin' pit bulls tied out with a 10# chain and spiked collar around their neck ... yes, I'm not ashamed, I ask them "awwww poor baby, what happened? they tied you up?" lol lol lol They get hysterical with glee! I don't do it with yappy dogs though. Go figure. But the Beagles love it too, their tails spin like a rutter!

I would have disguised my own voice, and posing as Apollo in a big deep gruff voice, said something along the line of, "Name's Apollo ma'am, 'n I kin sure as heck see who wears the pants in ur family!"

I don't do "babytalk", but I find it's physically impossible for me to talk to kids under like..5, and animals in my normal voice. I have to "sweeten it up" a bit, which means it's a little higher, and a little sillier. Otherwise I feel like I'm reprimanding them or something.

I do talk to them normally (I used to have the HARDEST time talking to babies..seriously, I felt so friggin ridiculous..then I got used to it, and now I have full conversations with them..okay, half conversations, since they don't talk back ), just not in my normal voice.

My nephew's grandmother (sister's mother-in-law? brother-in-law's mother? take your pick of titles lol) is the WORST with babytalk. I've never seen her around animals, but with kids..whew. "Iz jou firsty, iz jou??" (are you thirsty) "Youz gotshor bah-bah?" (do you have your bottle..). lol. It's literally sickening.