If I could go away for a weekend and not have to speak to anyone either in person, or by phone or text or email, that would be perfect right now.
On some of my days off, I only text or PM or post, I never use my voice. 
My animals would think I had gone insane.
I talk to my dog and cat all the time. Watching their reactions to my words is a good part of my life and really good for my "recovery" from a rough week.
I think they enjoy listening to me (I like to think that) and watching them respond with their own vocalizations fills me with even more love for them.
Me likes me animals!
Ha! I do the same! 
Dogs always attend to human vocalizing. Cats are more reserved.
Now whether they attend AND respond in their own way is a sign of further attention, I believe.
Both my dog and my cat listen to every word I utter and they come to me when I am not feeling well and show a bit of "concern" it feels like.
Last time I was sick, my cat never left my side until I was better. I had a cold and she kept my nose licked and moist through it all. I love her through the end of time.
She is getting old, but I am HER person. She made a commitment to me when she was a tiny three week old infant (the day I claimed her from a wonderful man who had saved a litter of infantile kittens after the mother had been killed during some construction. Those kittens did not have their eyes open yet and this guy scooped them all up from in front of a giant tractor thingy and took them to his home and got them all properly homed) and she has never wandered from me.
Maybe we need to get CBC a responsive pet friend.
