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August 12, 2026 (Conversation) You walk in a park. Children are playing, people are walking their dogs, and then you hear someone: Whos my little sweetie? You turn around expecting to see a pram. But someone is sitting beside a dog, speaking in the same voice they would use with a baby. Its not in your head. The way we speak to babies is very similar to the way we speak to our pets and research confirms this. So why do we do this? And do pets even care? The useful features of baby-talk For pets and babies, we