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Talking Pets? Anonymous
Let's say a freak genetic engineering accident at the local mad science lab produces a bunch of kittens and puppies that have the ability to use rudimentary language, and the lab decides to sell the animals for pets at an affordable price. The animals will not become more vocal than ordinary cats or dogs, but instead of meowing and barking, they will use a word from their learned vocabulary of max 50 words. In other words, they might walk to the door and say "out" or go to the kitchen and say "hungry" or "food", etc. Once they've learned the words they understand their meaning, both as they speak them and when you use them. Otherwise they are still regular cats and dogs with no higher or lower intelligence than the average mutt. So, If given the opportunity, would you adopt such a pet?

tl;dr: would you take a pet that could speak and had a vocabulary of about 50 words?
>> Anonymous
>>220381

As long as I can teach it to swear.
>> Anonymous
I don't know. It would certainly be a novelty.
My cats can already say "out" and "hungry", but in their usual way. They can also say "fuck off and leave me alone", "stroke me NOW, minion", "what the fuck are you doing" and "waaaaaaaahhhh!!!", all entirely non-vocally, of course.
>> Anonymous
>>220386
I'm fairly certain one of our cats swears already. Or at least does the best cat equivalent it can, whenever she gets pissed off to his brother.

A lot of time it would be useful if I knew if they were asking me to take them out, to give them food or to just look at how they pee (yeah, for some reason they want me to watch :|). Of course they'd probably start lying if they noticed I was more likely to respond to some requests than others...
>> anonymous
I don't think I'd like it if my dog could actually speak real words. I know that the most ignorant shit would just spill out of her mouth all the time. She wouldn't say hungry, she'd just look at you and say "Bitch" or "Cocksucker" because that's just my evil dog for you. She also meows which is really weird when you're trying to eat or watch tv. It takes three people to give a 17 lb dog a bath. Is that sad or what?
>> Anonymous
God damn it animals are not toys.

If I wanted a Furby, I... Would still not get one.
>> Anonymous
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Talking pets, FUCK YEAH!
>> Nyarly
Lets see.. my cats pretty much only need one phrase each.
Jasper: Food! (fat bastard that he is, only meows when he wants you to feed him)
Sammy: Hi! ^_^ (big softy, wants fusses all the time)
Izzy: FUCK OFF! (generally to Sammy)
>> Anonymous
Pretty sure my dog would be saying 'BALL BALL BALL BALL BALL BALL' every second of the day. Unless you flt out refused to play ball with him in which case he'd be muttering the nastiest things about you under his breath, if he looks he gives me are anything to go by.
>> Anonymous
I had a cat that talked. Not human words mind you, but he had a diffrent meow depending on what he wanted. "Let me outside" "gimme food" "Someone pay atention to me" "Turn on the bathroom sink just a bit so I can drink out of the cool running water." Each had a very vocal and diffrent sound, and it was the same sound every time he wanted that thing. We constantly talk to our cats like they are people, so I guess he figured out that if he wants something he will get it faster if he speaks up.
>> Anonymous
God, like I needed more creatures saying "Hey mom. Hey mom. Hey mom. Hey mom. Hey mom. Hey mom" every hour of the fucking day.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>220381
No, it'd be creepy and probably irritating too.
>> Moonbarker Osbourne
A cat that sounds like it's mumbling several human phrases

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LBKVXyrHcw
>> Anonymous
>>220574

Mine would probably say "Play?"
>> Anonymous
>>220588

I lol'd.