Puppies really do like it better when you baby talk to them!

You want to boop its nose. You want to give it all the balls it […]

You want to boop its nose. You want to give it all the balls it could ever desire. You’ve lost your mind over a puppy dog.

It’s totally normal. And, it turns out, dogs actually quite like our strange need to speak to them only in baby talk.

A new study in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B says that when puppies are spoken to in a higher-pitched, cuter voice, they’re more engaged than when you talk to them as you would do any adult, non-furry thing.

Bernese Mountain Dog puppy lying on deck

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