I may be the goofiest in the silly department. I know most people baby talk to their pets, but over the years, starting with my mom, our family has evolved from "baby talk" to "speaking cat". It involves a special voice used only when speaking "cat" as well as a unique dialect composed of really bad grammar (she seen him do that), some southern white (that "yunder" cat is some big "feller"), some southern black (my cat just had kitttens, and she produced a fine "fambly"), and yankee ("dese" cats keep drinking out of the "terlet") colloquialisms and accents along with several infusions of child's mispronunciations added in over the years (he likes to get under the "cubbers" to sleep). My son and I have expanded it to include such things as "gotta fight it" for the squinty-eyed look cats get (started when he was watching some kittens losing the struggle to stay awake lest they miss some fun)and "smelling the hot clothes" (begun when one day, amazed again at how fast the cats found a basket of fresh laundry he declared they must be able to smell hot laundry). It really has developed into a language of its own, but I am so afraid of being labelled a kook that no one outside of my family has ever heard more than bits or pieces of it! I'm a certifiable kook!