Why Do We Talk To The Animals, *besides just bossing them around*

 This is Henry, actually listening to me.

Like most people from a working farm background, I imagine, I was not raised chatting with animals.  

My father, when he was a young man at home, was really good with horses. You had to be able to communicate with them to do things like plow with them pulling the plow.  He and Old Lady, a very smart mare, were a good working team and in fact used to train other horses to work, between the two of them.

But we didn't see him or mom talking with cats or dogs at home when we were young.  I didn't either.  I certainly never yakked at a chicken. lol

Now'days, in the fullness of time, I perceive animals differently.  I sense them as part of a continuum of communication.  God talks to me with the physical creation and direct contact sometimes when I pay attention. heh.  I communicate with other people as do they with me.  And in truth, when I go through my day with the small house lions, I tell them what I am up to. I ask them how they are many times a day. When I need Willie to get out my way I tell him to "move it".  When I have to get up and there is a cat sitting on me I tell them I need them to let me move. Etc.

 

If I had a chicken I suppose I would talk to it also.

Is it a good thing, a bad thing, or just inevitable?