Do you ever wonder too?

nice thought! i have never thought of that but i guess our pets would call us with our names if they were to speak like us. oh! but not when they are mad. maybe they would also have this bad names for us.

If only we could understand when they try to communicate but interesting topic you bought up! Who knows what goes on in an animal's head. How epic would it be if they could talk like those movies like zookeeper or Dr Dolittle. I wonder what the animals are thinking when we approach them, like what if you were an ant and you saw a human being. What would you think? And it's fascinating how animals can tell whether we're a threat or not like those people who go to Savannah and examine animals there. If animals could talk like us, we wouldn't have to get bitten or scratched.

I believe animals call us "humans". Of course, that would be their in their own language.

I don't think that animals communicate or think like we do. They see predators as just that and apply their instincts to it. It is just like when a man will yell at a dog for getting out in the street. Animals don't see things like we do. Their boundaries and things they fear are different from ours. They don't know our ways or our way of looking at things.

Hi jdex: That's actually interesting question and this works for every language. I think it's for the same reason we find names to the rest of things, people, places, expressions, feelings, etc It's because humans while they were developing their communicative skills they randomly associate words to the objects around them. I think that people chose words that gives them a comfortable feeling for their pets for example. ALVARO

That's a gd one. I hv never thought of that. If they do talk abt us, they might really hv names for us.

What if they call us by a nickname like "ruff ruff" or maybe they call us by our name that they hear other people call us. Who knows they might also know how to invent nicknames that we don't even know. Or they just use signs as their nature like when they show us the ball, they want to play, when they show us a bowl, they are hungry.

They don't 'call' us anything but to a dog, we are big, high status dogs all the best urban

thats funny. i never thought of it, but i would assume they call us what they hear others call us. like everyone in the family calls me mom here and i talk to coco my dog and call myself mom to her. if i say someones name, she knows who im speaking of. so i guess they think we are what they hear us called.

Since animal language is much more based on smells and body language I think that is how they identify us. But Sadie hound dog knows I call Hubby, Dad and when I tell her to go find Dad she knows just what to do.

That is rather interesting to think about. I do sometimes wonder what pets might call their human masters. I think that until there comes a time where we are able to translate the language that our pets are speaking, we may never be completely sure. I also do wonder about whether or not our pets tend to make fun of our little quirks behind our backs. Again, we may never know what precisely they are saying. That is absolutely amusing to think about in a number of ways. There are just many times where pets seem to do things for weird reasons. However it makes sense to them. Perhaps all of those ruffs and meows are something that can be translated into an utterly complex language. Then again, there are various degrees of these, from annoyed, to happy to say the very least. It is rather a fascinating topic to think about.

Oh! They call us the two-legged smart butt mammals actually! And when they talk about us, they discuss how odd smelling we are. That's what my creativity tells me but personally i don't think they have the capacity to communicate the way we do. They communicate only for their basic needs and according to the limitations they were granted to. Like during mating season, for emu birds, the male emu gives food to the female and then they mate. For dogs, the b!tch emits a certain smell which attracts a stud.

Here are my suggestions: 'Food-provider' 'Tummy-tickler' 'Head-scratcher'

I don't know that If you can speak their language why don't you ask them?