Yes, I talk to Toby all the time. He may not understand me, but he looks at me as if he does. He definitely understands certain words. For example, when I feed him some bites of my food from the dinner table and when we are done, I hold up both my hands and say "pau" (done in Hawaiian). He goes over to his water bowl to get a drink then goes to the living room to watch TV.
Time is just a drop in the bucket compared to eternity. It isn’t how long you live that matters; it is how well you are prepared to die. ~~Colonel Robert B. Thieme, Jr.