[Closed] What kind of world are we living in...

Maybe they thought that your dog was a flat-coated retriever and that you were disseminating misinformation in song form to mess with your dog's head? Yep, that's probably it.

I wish there was a like button for things like this.

For the record I got caught by the wife singing a modified 'hello' to my springer

huckleberryfatt - that's the problem, my dog has confided in me that she has an identity crisis and thinks she's a flat-coated retriever, hence my song.

I bet she knew the walker was there and pissed herself when you realised 8) expect that kind of behaviour from a cat...

People can be so cruel <sigh>
I used to sing Brown Eyed Girl to my dog--there might have been a dance too

I do that to my kids all the time (3 and 5). They nicely ask me to stop.

Bertie doodle, Bertie doodle, the amazing curly pup

Sung to the tune of the willy wonka song..I make no apologies

At least you were singing a song, which reveals a little bit of showbiz talent. Something that was not remotely evident as I walked along the wee Buchaille ridge one day, exaggeratedly lifting alternate legs as I stepped on a number of ducks, unaware that the only other chap out in the hills that day was about to overtake me, and was more than close enough to see my actions and hear my efforts.

Scandalous isn't it. I talk to my lab all the time and 'he answers me back'* Often when I'm out in the great outdoors around other people I've never met, the strains of the labrador song can be heard belting out..

He's big
He's black
He's got a tail round the back
He licks
He begs
He's got little stumpy legs
He's Murphy boy

My (teenage) kids now actually now actively disown me. Honestly, who wouldn't talk to their dog?

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* although it sounds a little bit like me

I always talk to Oscar when I'm out with him, no songs (yet!) Miss Houns couldn't stop laughing at me when I was begging him not to pull me over on a steep icy track a couple of weeks ago.

6 months old today

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Rata the labrador died just before Xmas at the great age of 17. When she was a mere pup she didn't like going for walks, the world outside the gate was a bit too scary. I discovered that the only way to make progress was to get behind her and sing loudly. Bat out of Hell in my best Meat Loaf impersonation was particularly effective.

The kids weren't born at the time but are still horrified that there may be people around who remember. It's a small village. I have not told them that I learned the phonetic alphabet by singing it to the dog and spelling out any instructions (SIT sierra india tango).

I've altered the lyrics to songs about the pets we have had all my life. I thought I was alone. Now I know I'm not. Pets have also had specific sings invented about them too - as have the children!

A few weeks ago we were finishing a ride with a spin along a sustrans path when my mate decided to stretch out his back in a crucifix position.

I suggested he looked like he was posing on the bow of the Titanic in the film, so we started singing that annoying Celine Dion song at him.

Much to the consternation of the walkers coming the other way 😳

My dog has about 5 names, from Hopey Dopey, to Little LuLu (from Harry Enfield)... my son seems quite accepting of my odd-ness 🙂

That's not too weird. I regularly talk to Ted (Springer) when we are out walking. It reassures him (and me).

We talk and sing at Benny all the time, he probably thinks musicals are a fairly accurate depiction of standard human behaviour. Just the other day I treated him to a personalised version of Toyal Eclipse of the Heart. And as he's called Benny Lava, he gets this a lot:

He also gets called The Whizzler, Truffle Snout, Benjamin (when he's being naughty), Detective Crayons, Sausage, Bee, and That Boy.

I've a tendency to talk to the local fauna when I'm out on a ride / run. I'll offer a cheery "quack" to the ducks on the canal, or a conspiratory "moo" to the cows in the field.

Not making animal noises, you understand, just "moo" in words. I'm not some sort of mentalist.

Some imaginative people here. I just change every lyric to "dog", as she thinks it's her name.

Our favourite song starts "dog dog dog, dogdogdogdog dog/dogdogdog dogdogdoog
dogdogdog dog dog"*

(*which of course is "Do It Better" by the Happy Mondays).

I've a tendency to talk to the local fauna when I'm out on a ride / run. I'll offer a cheery "quack" to the ducks on the canal, or a conspiratory "moo" to the cows in the field.

Not making animal noises, you understand, just "moo" in words. I'm not some sort of mentalist.

I do this too! Chickens, ducks, turkeys, cows, sheeps, birds.... Group rides can be interesting.

OP the walker behind you hadn't seen your dog and thought you were calling him a Labrador.... a terrible insult especially as he knows he's a Rhodesian ridgeback

Thanks for that Mrs toast

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I've a tendency to talk to the local fauna when I'm out on a ride / run. I'll offer a cheery "quack" to the ducks on the canal, or a conspiratory "moo" to the cows in the field.

Not making animal noises, you understand, just "moo" in words. I'm not some sort of mentalist.

The more I think about this, the more I believe that 'Labrador' is the perfect dog breed name in terms of fitting it into songs.

Three syllables. Can also be extended where required, i.e. 'Labradabrador'.

Lends itself nicely to alternate endings:

Labraday
Labradee
Labradoo

Coupled with the full Labrador (Retriever) name and you've basically got your canine karaoke sorted.

Molly, became Molly moo, which morphed into mooper.Now Molly mooper goes so well with words like super dooper that we now have all that's required to go along with that awful Abba song.

I've a tendency to talk to the local fauna when I'm out on a ride / run. I'll offer a cheery "quack" to the ducks on the canal, or a conspiratory "moo" to the cows in the field.
Not making animal noises, you understand, just "moo" in words. I'm not some sort of mentalist.

Er, so making the actual animal noises means I'm a looper? Oh dear.

I sing to my dog lots, most of the time without meaning to. No specific song though, his name (and many nicknames) and breed easily fit into most songs 🙂

There is a statue of Duke Of Wellington in a remote field next to a wood, and whenever I ride past I always call a greeting out to him, well it's got to be lonely up there on that pedestal. If there is an interesting news story like the Ukraine, I try to give him a few words, like "Trouble in the Ukraine old boy", or "Those pesky ruskies are at it again"

The only thing with those who talk to your dogs, do you then not greet other people, I get this on my way to and from work, say good morning to them, and they look at you gone out, then precede to lavish praise onto a now defectating canine.

If you crave their attention, try singing them a nonsense song, based on their appearance and demeanor. Whilst defecating in front of them. Maintain eye-contact throughout.

Reminds me of this

I once moo'd at a horse in a field (I like to think that multi-cultural exposure is good for them), and as I went past it and turned my head, I found there was a previously-unnoticed cyclist sitting on my wheel.