{"id":664,"date":"2021-06-10T14:31:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T19:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/north-houston-dog-training\/?p=664"},"modified":"2022-07-25T07:59:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:59:04","slug":"why-dogs-love-baby-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/north-houston-dog-training\/fun-dog-stuff\/why-dogs-love-baby-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Dogs Love Baby Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you talk to your pup just like you would a baby? Well, turns out, dogs love that! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/news\/2018\/research\/dog-speak-important-for-social-bonding\/\">Studies<\/a> show that dogs bond easily with humans who form high-pitched speech patterns. Just like babies, pups respond to easy and positive language interactions.<\/p>\n<h2>Oh Baby<\/h2>\n<p>Infant-directed speech or \u201cbaby talk\u201d shows improved communication and engagement in regards to emotion show from humans to babies (or puppies)! Dog-directed speech is similar to this rhythmic register and is shown to have positive impacts on puppies.<\/p>\n<p>Social bonding between dogs and humans occurs in mostly younger puppies as they are beginning to form relationships through first time interactions. Dogs are more attention driven to dog-related words or content when spoken in \u201cbaby talk\u201d than when \u201cbaby talk\u201d tone is used with non-dog related words. Consider how your dog responds to \u201cWant to go on a walkie?\u201d than when you say \u201cLet\u2019s go outside\u201d. They likely are more enthusiastic when you use \u201cbaby talk\u201d, especially if you began speaking to them like that when they were a puppy.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, dogs love hearing their favorite words or phrases when you use a high-pitch, <a href=\"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/nashville-dog-training\/dog-questions\/how-talking-to-your-dog-affects-them\/\">friendly tone<\/a>, like \u201cTreatie?\u201d! Try talking to your pup in a generally more enthusiastic and lighter tone and see what happens!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you talk to your pup just like you would a baby? Well, turns out, dogs love that! Studies show that dogs bond easily with humans who form high-pitched speech patterns. Just like babies, pups respond to easy and positive language interactions. Oh Baby Infant-directed speech or \u201cbaby talk\u201d shows improved communication and engagement in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/north-houston-dog-training\/fun-dog-stuff\/why-dogs-love-baby-talk\/\"><b>Read More <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28369],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/north-houston-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/north-houston-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/north-houston-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/north-houston-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/north-houston-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/north-houston-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/north-houston-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/north-houston-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/north-houston-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/north-houston-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/north-houston-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}