Talk to Animals, and They May Talk Back

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Dogs and cats don't have to use human speech to communicate their thoughts and feelings clearly to their humans. They do this instead.

. In fact, we tend to talk to our pets as if they understood what we were saying and as if they were human beings. And not just any other human being, but a very young human being at that.

However, we also tend to talk this way with our pets . Dogs and cats are not going to produce speech or talk to us using language—ever. So why do we do this? Cats, on the other hand, are notoriously asocial. In the wild, adult cats tend to live and hunt separately from other cats. They were domesticated because the service they provided, hunting rodents and other pests, could be done without humans—on their own, as they would naturally hunt in the wild.

Dogs and humans trade gazes at important objects in the world, looking at the object, then the dog or human, then back at the object to convey the appropriate message. That shared gaze elicits the secretion ofMixed breed similar to our family pet"Petunia" from way back in my childhood.Cats don’t tend to alternate their gazes with their owners as much as dogs do, perhaps because cats didn’t need to do so on a solitary hunt in the wild.

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