Ode to a Pet

[HotelMinion]

Soooo...I was wondering...does anyone else sing to their pet? I do. Sometimes I dance with him.
Songs I sing to him are...uhm....parodies of other hit songs. For example:

Kitty's gonna prey on you tonight
Hunt you down eat you alive
Cuz kitty's a kittymal
Kittymal
kittymal
Kittymal

You think that you can hide
Kitty can smell your scent for miles
Cuz kitty's a kittymal
Kittymal
Kittymal

Etc.

And

Kitty kitty kitty can't you see,
Sometimes your eyes just hypnotize me @_@
And I just love your fancy ways
This is why you're dope and you're okay!

Etc.

And

Belly belly belly just floppin everywhere
Floppin everywhere
flopping everywhere
Kitty's little belly just flopping everywhere
Floppin here and there
Just flopping everywhere

^-^

So do you guys sing to your pets? Cookies if you do and extra if you get the references! ^_^ Just curious.

[iradney]

I sing to the pooches when it's their feeding time - to the tune of "It's the most wonderful time of the year" I sing "It's the most wonderful time of the day". Original. I know :P

[Antisocial_Worker]

I sing to my cats...

"Oh, Timmy... What have you done?
Grown your fur in the sun...
You left your brother, your hometown scene,
For some... crazy... dream..."

And so forth.

I also just randomly sing their names:

"It's a Timmy Cat, It's a Timmy Cat..."
"It's Baxter, the big bad beast! He's a big bad beast -- Beast!"

[Kittish]

Boyfriend and I both sing to our monsters. Parodies on songs largely. There's one set to Beethoven's Fifth-

Roll on the floor
Roll on the floor
Wiggle and squirm wiggle and squirm wiggle and squirm
... and so on.

Our cats, Bittle especially, does this oh so cute wriggly thing.

There's also
Flop! In the name of Fluff
And give him belly rubs
When he rolls over

Sung to the tune of Stop In The Name of Love. That's for Mister Kitteh, who does like some good belly rubs.

And just random stuff, too, set to no particular tune.

[MoonCat]

We do the "Maggie Dance"!

I hold her up so she's standing on her back feet (with my support) and dance her around a bit. My singing would scare off wolves so I just sort of chant some nonsense about doing the "Maggie Dance" and we always end with a sort of French can-can lift of the butt (hers, not mine!! )

[Aria]

I sometimes pet my cat and tell her she's an ugly beast with limited value and no redeeming qualities. She does nothing but eat and crap and shed and why do I put up with this?

She purrs a lot when I do that because she doesn't care what the words are, just the tone and that I'm petting her. XD

[XCashier]

We used to have a black cat named Shadow, and hubby trained him to meow along to the Blue Danube.

Hubby: Da da da da daaa...
Shadow: Meow! Meow!
Hubby: Da da da da daaa...
Shadow: Meow! Meow!

...etc. It was funny. I wish I'd had a video camera then.

We also had a black and white cat named Sylvester, and we'd sing (to the Speed Racer theme), "Here he comes, here comes Sylvester, he's a kitty on wheels..."

We don't really sing to our current kitties, although Chessie seems to like it when I play classical or acoustic music.

[HotelMinion]

I sing to the pooches when it's their feeding time - to the tune of "It's the most wonderful time of the year" I sing "It's the most wonderful time of the day". Original. I know :P

LOLz. I don't have a dog anymore, but I used to have a GSD named Wolfy. And I would sing this while chasing him around the house:

Wolfy's on the loose
Wolfy's on the loose
He doesn't mean to be on the loose!
But he's a dog so what can you DO

Not sure where I got that song...

Plus during supper time, I would sing:

It's suppatime, it's suppatime! Sup sup sup sup supper time!

I think I got that from Snoopy. I think.

We do the "Maggie Dance"!

I hold her up so she's standing on her back feet (with my support) and dance her around a bit. My singing would scare off wolves so I just sort of chant some nonsense about doing the "Maggie Dance" and we always end with a sort of French can-can lift of the butt (hers, not mine!! )

LOL. That's what my Bro does with his cat. I don't do that because Bro's cat gets this LOOK on his face like he's being tortured. It's like puppy eyes except on a cat. Usually by dance I mean I hold him in my arms and go around in circles.

Glad I'm not the only one who sings to animals tho

[Kristev]

I used to sing to my Maggie,

"Isn't she lovely? Isn't she wonderful?"

[Nunavut Pants]

My wife sings to her cat:

Whiner kitten,
Whiner kitten
I see you, I see you!
You're a whiner kitten,
Such a whiner kitten
Yes you are
Yes you are

There are others, but they are in a similar vein...

[Teefies2]

No 2 is Tom Jones can I haz cookies??

[mathnerd]

I sing to my parrots. They sing back. Sometimes with actual words and sometimes with the various squeaks, squawks and screams that their various species are known for (I have a macaw, an amazon, a senegal and a cockatiel). I don't have anything specific I sing to them, just whatever's playing on my iPad or pandora at the time.

[XCashier]

I sing to my parrots. They sing back.

Here's a funny video of a man singing to his two cockatoos, and their very different reactions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQuDyuQFKE

Thought you'd be amused.

[mathnerd]

The larger cockatoos tend to be enthusiastic dancers. The smaller ones not so much.

My macaw and my Amazon dance a little. The Senegal and cockatiel really don't. But those two sing more than the bigger birds. The Amazon uses a lot of human words. The macaw just squeals and squawks mostly. But the macaw is still adjusting to luge here, so I'm sure she has some more surprises in store.