Five real pets, from one real family
Talking With Pets is a family book and guide line where five real pets, three dogs and two cats, help families welcome a new pet home and step into timeless stories together.
Why we exist
To deepen the bond between pets and the humans who love them, helping both ends of the leash through personalized, honest, sourced storytelling.
We are a small family business, built around the five pets in our family.
What we make
Welcome Home comes first: a free map and guides for the first weeks with a new cat or dog, printables with your pet's name, and read-aloud books in the works. Around it: Our Next Collar, our history podcast for kids; Paw Prints, true animal stories; and classic stories our five make their own.
Everything we makeOur five
Each one hosts the stops on the Welcome Home Map they know best.
Chaco and Prince MoRee have since passed, and they're with us in spirit.
How we make our content
We use both human craft and artificial intelligence, and try to use the best of both. Our family decides what a story is about, how it should feel, and whether it is right for the child it is meant for, while technology helps us make it and helps us check that our language is age-appropriate and our books are accessible.
Every page says so in one line at the bottom. The pet illustrations and portraits in our books and on this site are AI-generated from curated photographs of our five real animals, and a person reviews every one before it ships. Our podcast voices are AI-generated as well, performed under human direction from scripts our family writes and fact-checks.
Nothing reaches a family without a person signing off on it.
How we check what we say
Reward-based only. Every Welcome Home tip rests on reputable sources we name on its page. Then the entire family checks it: us and our five, with decades of reading about, working with and living with all manner of pets. We are not vets; for anything about health, call your vet.
How we checkYour privacy
No accounts, no ad tracking, no mailing list. Your pet's name stays in your browser, the printables are made on the page, and the calendar reminders go into your own calendar.
Our privacy policy