[Oh hi little guy! You're cute! So Uncle John here is going to crouch down and give you ear scratchies. What do you mean it has fangs and could potentially bite him? John is not concerned with these things]

Ah, well head's up it's going to get much worse than this as far as cold is concerned. We had a pretty bad blizzard last year. What's this little guy doing though, huh? [Aaaand then he starts talking to the Poochyena...in that silly, half-cooing voice that people always talk to dogs in.] You driving your mommy crazy, huh? Huuuuuh? Sounds like somebody is a siiiilly puppy.