does anyone talk things out with their pets and does it help you to?

[enfield]

i don't really talk to my rabbit normally. he tries to talk to me but do you think i want to talk to him. no, i don't. i had all these dreams for him when he was really young. our other rabbit was a newscaster and i wanted this one to make documentaries. so i tried to raise him to be one of those documentary maker types but slowly i just stopped pretending it when i saw it wasn't going to pan out. those weren't suitable dreams to have for a rabbit and i should've known that but i was too young to see it then. when those dreams died i didn't really look at him the same anymore. i felt nothing else he did could make me happy for him. like i don't care that he recently got a raise at his job sweeping chimneys. i'd like to care but i don't. he never made those documentaries i wanted him to and he never will. i take care of him but i don't listen to his life. we don't really talk and when he do its just really simple things that are said.

but today i went into his pen (he lives in the closet but im calling it a pen) and started to clean up it up like normal but instead of holding him off to the side while i did it i started to pet him. and then i began to talk to him, like really talk, not about the dreams he never lived up to but i just talked about what was going on with me. i never listened when he tried to talk to me about his life but now he was listening to mine. i didn't go about the cleaning briskly either, usually im a brisk cleaner because im really impatient to finish the cleaning and i want to get it over and done with. but i started to talk to him and then take more care and attention to the cleaning as i was i was talking.

towards the end i was sniffling but i think he was sleeping by then. he better not have inferred it was me crying. besides i have allergies, and with him shedding like mad and the particulate from the hay being sent up into the air as i cleaned, it could've easily given me the sniffles. so whatever he thought he heard could've just been that. yeah i was confiding in him but i wasn't shedding any tears over what i was saying!

it really did make me feel better after the fact. im used to just thinking about whats bothering me (or if i really need to typing things out to the wide open internet) but talking about them with my rabbit wasn't that bad, sure i mumbled and maundered, but its not like i don't do that when im typing something anyhow, or sense how rambling and disconnected my own thoughts are, so i didn't feel embarrassed by that. and its a rabbit for god sakes so why should i be. it felt different than just thinking about it or typing something, distinctly different, and if my rabbit would listen to me some more (and maybe i'll start to listen to him now too) then i think i would like to do it again.

[Heelsbythebridge]

I used to have a rabbit. His name was Barney, and the best rabbit someone could ask for. He was potty trained, knew to return home when you set him loose, and a tidy little thing. I didn't talk to him but I held him when I was sad, and he would lick all over my hands like a puppy. I don't know if other bunnies did that, but he was a smart and affectionate creature.

[Otherside]

I once had a conversation with a random cat. And then midway through a sentence, it just walked off.

Mind you, it was rather nice whilst it lasted.

[Total Eclipse]

I tried this with my macaw, he can't keep anything secrets however, and repeats everything I say ._.

[Chloe]

I use to talk to my dog before he died. I even made him promise to see me through my gcses (I knew his time would be coming in a few years) I took his cuddling up to me as a yes. he made it a year and a few months into my gcses before he went :')


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[Keddy]

I always talk to my dog. I have conversations "with him" when I'm walking him and even when I'm just sitting around the house with him. I know that obviously he can't verbally respond to me but he always seems to know when I'm feeling bad and he likes to cuddle more and lick my face :3
He's a really smart dog (he's a Border collie mix) and sometimes I honestly think he understands what I'm saying, even though he can't say anything back. Sometimes when I don't feel like getting up in the morning he sort of tries to nudge me out of bed. He takes good care of me, for what a dog can do
He was meant to be my family's dog but he's mostly mine now because I'm the "dog person" in the family. He sleeps in my bed and everything.
I like talking to other peoples' dogs, too, even when I don't know the dogs. I just feel like they understand and can be empathetic on a level that human's cant. There is nothing like a dog's affection, that's why I love them so much. And they're good listeners and always want a hug afterwards