Matt Hobbs "Puppy Songs" & Pet Directed Speech with special guest Matt Hobbs

Today we excitedly interview Puppy Songs creator and musical genius Matt Hobbs, and together we all talk about how humans talk to pets, whether pets understand or not, and how pets communicate with us. We discuss pet voices. Child-parent relationships as models for interspecies relations - do they go in both directions? I mean like, does my cat think of me as her son? Should I give her a mother's day gift? How many words does the average dog know? Who is a good boy? Et cetera!

In Eurovision talk, we discuss Lithuania's "Stay" by Monika Linkyte. Turns out Matt Hobbs has a lot of deep and insightful things to say about this. Wow, it's really different when someone who actually knows something about music talks about a song!

You can find Matt Hobbs' awesome songs about his dogs and the dogs of others, and songs not about dogs at all, on just about every platform, including Tiktok, Spotify, and Youtube, by searching "puppy songs". Or you can go to his website: https://www.puppysongs.com/

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