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I can't remember having no dog(s).

Of course you can talk to your animals, goats, dogs, cats, perrots and they all respond.
All you have to do is talk with feeling and not with reason.
Telepathy?
I used to have a belgian shepherd and she would come to me just before I was going to blow the whistle. Just thinking of her was enough.

When our dogs (2 galgo's, spanish greyhounds) don't want to come I turn around and break the bond we have thinking: You don't listen? I am off. Bye bye.
Whistle a last time and walk away.
Before I've walked 100 metres they are with me, behaving very guilty because they broke the bond by leaving me standing there.
Then we make up again and they stay with me as close as they can.

We used to have a Labrador who died of old age. Bob.
Bob had Buddhanature. He was such a good and freindly dog.
Later we saw him coming back to get our old cat Merlin when he was very sick.
Bob had a beautifull young body, shining and all telling Merlin it wasn't bad at all to die and invited him to come over and play.(They always were big friends)
Merlin did not refuse and died peacefully and sometimes, when I walk the dogs I can feel them both, Bob and Merlin walking along with us.

Ok, call me crazy because nobody sees them (although some clearvuoyant people I know do actually see them and describe what I know but didn't tell) but I know it is there.
Animals live on the way we do and why not? There is no such a thing as dead.

Maybe the question is not: Do pets talk but do they communcate.
And I say they do. They even learn your language.
They even learn your habits and your moods so they can predict you.
The only thing they don't learn is reason.

You can communicate perfectly with your pets but you can't reason with them.
Neither can you with people.