You talk to your critters the same way I do to the ones around here!
My kids laugh when they hear me scold a wild animal. They remember hearing me scold them!
Instances I can remember of talking to wild animals:
“You m... ...er!!” (Some predator has hold of or has gotten a chicken.) (Also works if a roo tries to attack ME, and I respond with a kick or charge him, AND for turtles chomping on fish I have on a stringer.)
“A-HA!” (The live trap has nabbed a ‘coon or ‘possum.)
” *Many Expletives Deleted* “ (The time a neighbor’s Boxer Mix dug into our chicken’s pen and killed several.) (Ok, not really a wild animal, but, still...)
“Are you recording me?” (We have these small birds with a call that sounds like “Video-video-video”. Back in the day, I called them the “MTV Birds”.)
“Got ‘im!” or “Gotcha!” (Thousands of times, fishing.)
“Missed ya’!” or “Missed ‘im!” (Even more thousands of times, fishing.)
“Owww! You little...” (Got “spined” while trying to unhook / release a small catfish.) (Also works for insect stings, etc.)
“Boop-boop-boop-boop-boop-boop!” (This can get our whole flock of chickens running up to me for a treat. Again, they are not “wild animals”, but, that scene from the Jurassic Park movie always comes to mind...)