Who says Pets don't talk!

Pets don’t talk like people talk but they can make their thoughts known to us when they choose to. Hibbs, Heeks and I went for an evening walk recently. Often times Hibbs does not want to come on the evening walk. He is always up for the morning walk but Hibbs is not always up for the evening jaunt. He lets me know he does not want to come by not coming over when I get his lease out or he does not come to the door if he has been hooked up on his lease and decided he does not want to come.


Hibbs is now eleven years old so I don’t push him if he doesn’t want to come. If he does come with us and we are half way or more around the pond I make him finish the walk. He will just stop and look at me. I have to pull on him to make him continue. We just take it slow. I allow him to stop many times and rest if he has to finish the walk.


Last week Hibbs decided to come on the evening walk and half way around changed his mind. I again made him finish the walk. When we got home we were sitting out front cooling down from our walk and some of our neighbors with other dogs stopped to chat and socialize for a few minutes. Hibbs and Heeks have many dog friends in our neighborhood and we always greet each other on our daily walks. This evening one of my friends Carol spoke directly to Hibbs. She asked him how his walk was that evening. He answered her by growling a grumbling growl. I thought it was funny because I knew he had not enjoyed that walk. My friends also laughed because he immediately answered Carol’s question.


There have been other times when the dogs, cat and bird have seemed to respond to something I said to them. I think that pets can talk even if they cannot speak people do they can get their point across! Do your pets talk to you?


Donna