Pet Therapy: The science of puppy talk

Do you ever baby talk to your dog — and perhaps feel a little silly doing it? Well, there is good news for those of us who can’t help talking to our puppies like they are human infants, as recent research indicates that this human tendency is more beneficial to the human-dog bond than was previously thought.
In 2017, a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B reported that not only is baby talking to our pets a common practice (and automatic for many people) —