Not quite as daily as the title says

Sunflower 🌻

like i’m calling myself out here but i just uttered the words “you did the stretch and now the rare and powerful double pets” (two hands at once!!) to my cat without a trace of irony

like i do not believe my cat understands a word of what i am saying but he absolutely knows my voice and i think also my tone? but also all day i’m just randomly looking over at him like “good boy!” or “are you fluffy?” or singing little songs about his current fluff levels. to an animal. a wonderful animal but a creature who absolutely does not speak english and probably only vaguely is like “this creature is communicating with me” when the strange noises come from the person’s mouth

like i just think about this sometimes

i never wanted to baby talk this cat, i dislike the whole “i am a cat mom and this is my baby” thing, he is a cat, i am a person, and yet i just spend all day talking at him. while typing this he rolled over to show off his tummy and i had to restrain myself from saying “you got a tummy?” aloud. and then i did it anyway

She said, looking shocked, ‘but you do have to talk to them!’

So I explained that it’s not like talking to people, which is tiring and you have to listen to them too and that’s even worse. Burbling ‘who fluffy you fluffy’ and ‘who’s my kissy boy’ and ‘walky time, walky time’ requires no concentration or emotional energy and they don’t care how stupid I sound.