I like how people say "she doesn't actually know what she's saying she is just repeating the phrases you taught her" as if that isn't how we all learn how to speak.
@@corvidax Oh, yeah, I see a crap ton of them. To that, I say they laughed at the Wright brothers, too. These kinds of channels are merely still discovering more and more about this concept. I'd love to see where this takes us in the future.
@@Whimsy3692 Me too! My dog is a Yorkshire terrier, and though it’s impossible to rule out confirmation bias, we are teaching her rudimentary phrases without the use of buttons. The buttons are unavailable to us at this time, but we’re getting them ASAP!
Children are actually really bad verbal imitators so the likelihood that they learn language like that is pretty low. I do think Bunny knows what she's saying though, she's just had to learn through repetition as this isn't a natural communication channel for her
@@cyan7460 I agree. I just sent a copy of this to a friend with the comment of how you can basically see the wheels in her brain spinning as she thinks about the question (or statement from Mom), and how she is going to answer. You can SEE that she's thinking about it!
It’s fascinating seeing just how much bunny understand you. Her little head tilts prove it. At first I was very skeptical of this process and thought it was coincidence whenever she pressed the correct buttons but now I’m sure for the most part bunny understands you
@@WhiteWolfos And that 1000 mark may not even be the limit. We just have yet to develop a logistically feasible method to test them past that point. These dog buttons are the first time we've really had a way to start assessing how well they know words and how many -- but even so, look at how much floor space is taken up just by what Bunny has already. It is an interesting challenge.
@@SmartassEyebrows I'm sure it's more than that. They tested names for over 800 toys which a border collie singled out no problem on the first try. Add that to the existing words and I'm sure they are mighty capable of learning plenty.
I mean at the end of the day that's how babies learn to talk. They just make random sounds trying to figure out how their mouths work and we reinforce the hell out of anything that sounds remotely like a word.
Or if she's asking if Dad and Beacher are friends? Because he's working, Bunny's "Dad" doesn't go out to play when Bunny meets her friends. So maybe she's bringing up her friends and Dad to ask if they are also friends with each other..?
Dogs lack vertical directional location for the incoming sound. As such, they have to tilt their heads to position sound coming from above or below correcly (using horizontal directional location).
From a linguistic pragmatics standpoint, there is nothing in the language use patterns to which Bunny has been exposed (that we know of) that would convey a gendered association with words 'mom' or 'dad,' or even any biological relationship, although kinship may be implied. She most likely thinks that those are the names of her two most intimate humans. But to have enough background knowledge to grasp what a 'mom' or a 'dad' is in our conventional sense, she would probably need to be exposed to puppies and their moms/dads, have puppies herself. The meanings of words depend mainly on how they are used in a shared social and linguistic context. Words are actually more often signals and tools than they are labels for things "out there" in the world. Also, I agree with the comment below that the syntactic conventions of many Asian languages that do not decline or conjugate words are much easier to grasp than the complicated, convoluted grammar of English. The key here, based on my research at least, is exposing Bunny to meaningful contexts of usage. When she has these and is repeatedly exposed in ways that demonstrate meaning through the context in a manner that is relevant to her world and life and needs, then she can learn many concepts quite well. And as for any Anthroposupremacists out there trying to insist on human superiority, blah blah, ask yourself how many words of Dog or Cat or Parrot any nonhuman species do YOU know? Compared to Bunny, in this respect, most of us seem downright developmentally challenged. If you reflect on the fact that the average domestic household animal like a cat or dog, recognizes approximately 150 words of the language to which they are routinely exposed, and we humans who cohabitate with them recognize, few if any, nonhuman linguistic/semiotic cues, it puts things into a different perspective. The work being done here is so promising and important. I hope the research findings and study will be published sooner rather than later. Thanks for sharing this. It's wonderful.
I appreciate learning that there’s a word for an attitude that’s been bothering me since childhood. Thank you. Anthroposupremacy. In defense of some humans, I think few can communicate in canine sounds, but many of us do a good job understanding much of the language of our dogs. I expect there are folks with similar receptive communication skills with many other animals. 💚
@@MarcyPeska Agreed completely. There are good humans too. Some of us feel immense gratitude for the love nonhuman animals give us and appreciate the unique intelligence of myriad life forms. Some of us know how privileged we are to be able so intimately to experience the sentience of another kind of life. But we have a long way to go as a species before we stop thinking in retrogressive ways based on invidious hierarchies among lifeforms. All species are exceptional in their own ways. Most of them play vital roles in the ecosystems that vital to the life support systems of our planet. Ironically, our domesticated companion species are almost as out of sync with an ecosystems existence as we humans are, "feedlot" animals even moreso. But that's not their fault. That's a structural arrangement humans have set up--an exploitative arrangement that relies in large part on our denial of their sentience, awareness, emotional and social lives, intelligence, and especially something like a capacity for language. Human Exceptionalist arguments ("Man" is the only species that uses tools, has language, makes art, has culture, has a sense of family and kinship, has societies, has a division of labor, experiences joy, understands death, has a sense of futurity and doesn't just live in the present) did a lot of conceptual work for us to "thingify" nonhuman animals, and justify horrific levels of exploitation, destruction of life, habitat, and even the idea that we could "own" a sentient creature like an object. Yet new scientific research in the past 30+ years has systematically debunked every tenet of our supposed exceptionalism. Art we different? Of course? Do we share more in common than separates us? Often, yes (the extent depends on the species -- it's a no-brainer that we surely have more in common with cats and dogs and birds than mosquitos or bacteria or viruses). All species are evolutionarily exceptional. But only one species intentionally seeks to negate the intrinsic value of other species en mass and creates an elaborate philosophical and cultural apparatus to justify and legitimate what would otherwise seem unspeakable and appalling. Anthroposupremacism is the root cause of climate change, mass extinction, and all the various assaults on our planet's basic life support systems that we share with the other lifeforms who help make the world. Witnessing language use, communication, and sophisticated emotional intelligence in another species radically challenges the presuppositions of Anthroposupremacy. Animals are not humans, true. But humans are a kind of animal. And seeing ourselves as part of a great web of diversely intelligent and capable, creative life that we rely on to co-make a liveable, habitable world, is a small first step towards an ecosystems mode of living where we learn to find balance with all of nature instead of parasitically extracting from it until we kill out host and ultimately ourselves as a result. I am so grateful to the many scientists and ethologists, and other scholars, and activists working to challenge our untenable, outdated cultural models for thinking of the Human in opposition to all other species. We have a short decade in which to make radical changes to how we live, including with other species, and changing the way we think about ourselves and/in the world is a necessary part of that change. Let's not fuck this world up any further, people. Let's identify and make systemic changes while there's still time.
We aren’t using buttons but I know for sure that my cat recognizes my daughter by name and she recognizes my name as being “mummy”, because that is what my daughter calls me. If the name is used she will instantly look at/ look for that person.
It's interesting to see how much she talks about other dogs cause I always wonder how much my dog remembers my friends dogs and like the dogs she sees on walks and stuff.
Oh they have dog friends. My dog disliked a lot of dogs but she was beasties with a poodle she met and on good terms with next door neighbours dog lol they adopt a whole new demeanor when they see friend or foe like people.
Dogs remember their friends. I took my dog to the dog park and one of our family friends was there with their dog that he had met many times in the past. He made a b-line straight to the dog that was his friend even though there were a ton of other dogs.
Nearly all animals are intelligent. The problem we have is that they can't speak so we assume they are not. Given tools like this or teaching them sign language allows them to communicate in a way that we understand. Perhaps humans are the dumb ones! Animals can learn and adapt to us, but we can't seem to learn and adapt to their body language or way of communication.
Could she be asking about Tango's "dad"? When she clicked out, "hear sound come" it seemed she was trying to tell you to listen better to what she was communicating about "Tango" and "dad", because she grew puzzled when you responded as if she was telling you about a sound elsewhere, and didn't attempt to clarify along that line of questioning, but tried another track altogether. Then she kind of dropped the whole matter, very much as a toddler might do when they get nowhere in trying to query an adult about a new topic that they just don't have the right language to communicate about.
@@ninajansson5826 does tango even have a dad? If they dont, that could mean bunny was asking who is tango's dad. Like wondering why she has never seen him I wonder if dogs understand not ALL dogs have both a mom and dad. Sorta like how you need to explain to a toddler why their friend has only a mom or dad or two moms/dads
@@almond3066 Very interesting! I don't know if there is a 'dad' in Tango's family. It would be amazing if she was wondering why Tango's family structure is different to her own. I want to se Bunny talk more about Tango's family. Now. I can't wait....!
I've also felt she doesn't respond correctly to Bunny, but figured I'd get slammed as a hater. Like when Bunny keeps insisting on "Sound," and she responds with "Sound Upstairs?" Bunny had not said anything about "upstairs," and the response seemed to confuse her. Maybe, being a Dog, she just wants to stick her nose out the door and check things out
@@lucygray6162 I think she was frustrated on trying to make new words to be able to ask about "the thing" that's constantly on the mirror. that's why she last says sound what come come.
I wonder though this might be a stretch, Bunny has a separate style of communication with her friends, other dogs, other animals, and a separate style of communication with you her owners...does that make Bunny bilingual in a sense?
I love how she listens to you, thinks, and walks over to the board. The way her head tilts, or her mouth opens.. She is so smart and expressive as well.. Seems she's adapting some body language🤔
It is so cool to know doggos think about their friends and family so much! It's like every single video of Bunny just makes me happier than the last. Thank you all for doing this!
Just remembered an irrelevant story from the "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon" series - guy goes into the bar with his dog and does ventriloquist tricks to get a free drink. When he orders the drink, the barkeep (who learnt to read lips in noisy bars) realises the man is mute and the dog is the ventriloquist.
Some Asian languages use time as a modifier and a perfect tense verb and rarely use past/present/future tense. Wonder if that is how Bunny understands too?
Seeing you all work together to communicate so very clearly is amazing to watch. It's really important stuff... And cute and funny (though must be frustrating for everyone at times)! Once again, thanks.
Now wouldn't it be cool if all of Bunny's little playmates, especially Tango, Beacher and Selena, knew how to use the button boards to speak as well? That would be a sight to behold watching them paw their buttons and make their "I'm thinking" faces as they try to get their points across.
I was really wondering if after this gets popular and lots of dogs are doing it, maybe they will make sort of a standard button layout and meanings for all dogs so that they can be brought together and possibly communicate with eachother and be familiar with eachother's set up since they're the same. Also maybe after a while we'll learn of dogs trying to teach other dogs.
@@tls5870 It is an old saying that monkeys/apes secretly already know how to talk......but they refuse to do it for fear that we humans will put them to work. 😂 But on a more serious note yes I see your logic. I too think there is a huge potential with our dogs to learn more and more. But there is a yt channel where a lady has 2 dogs using talk buttons. It looks like a hot mess. The dogs just seem confused. Bunny's mom and dad could teach 2 dogs at once.....because they are very intentional with what/why/how. But I think they choose to have only 1 dog for a reason. Other people have good intentions but don't have the teacher skills to get it done.
Amazing....impressive. Her intelligence is like a human child, very specific in her communications. Mum is patient and loving makes communicating with her such wonderful experience to watch.
I think shes adding Dad into her list of people and dogs that she loves. She lights up when she is with them. You are the person she has a very special relationship with. Her BFF 💞
Are there days were Bunny just won’t “talk” or press her buttons? I mean for me there’s days where I don’t really want to say anything so I don’t. Do you find that Bunny has days like that too?
She once said in an interview that the amount on inteaction with the buttons varies. Some days she uses them 20 seperate times to express thoughts and have convos, on other days it's only 3 or 4 uses. If I recall that correctly. Seems like on days where not much is happening and she is not in the mood to communicate verbally she just says less.
from what i have seen from their posts and streams she might not be super talkative every day but she dose at least communicate when she wants to play, eat or go outside. I've even seen a few days where she's made it clear with the "all done" and "bye" buttons when shes had enough and just wants to lay down.
I've heard her mention that she's more chatty on some days than others as well. Obviously we see her chatty moments because that's the entertaining part that brings more views, but she has her quiet moments/days too I guess. It's nice that the buttons are there if she wants to use them to express herself, but she has the option of just NOT, & that's still totally acceptable too. I'm jealous!😂
Bunny is so cute! Watching her learn words that aren't nouns and basic verbs is so cool. I daydream about the day my little dog chats with me like this.
This is an amazing insight into how dogs do actually think about things, like friends, playing, going out. I have always said having a dog is like living with a toddler. I then wonder how many other animals are this sentient? Making our decision to count them as a food group even more morally dubious. I love watching bunny, watching her think through things. She's adorably cute to look at too.
I remember reading someone's comments saying that Bunny's owner's were delusional if they thought she could actually mean what she was pressing. Wonder what they have to say for themselves if they watched this. I'm fascinated by the way Bunny is thinking and I can actually understand her. Or maybe I'm delusional too. :)
probably they would say the same thing, or say that the dog was trained to push specific buttons, which kind of makes the whole capacity for dogs to learn obvious, but for that guy, it wouldn't click. Don't waste energy thinking about the unconvinced. They may one day change their minds but, it seems it isn't what you believe, and that's also ok. :)
some people are just desperate to look like the smartest person in the room. Alexis has said many times she has no idea how much of this is actual communication and how much is just a fun trick Bunny likes doing. The way I see it this is a happy dog who gets tons of positive attention from her owners and enrichment games and is living her best pupper life and if it also turns out that she's at the forefront of canine/human communication then that's just a swell little bonus for us all. So don't lose sleep over the people who are always going to be calling this a scam because they have nothing better to do. The dog is happy, that's what matters.
Could bunny possibly mean dad as someone she likes? Like her "dad" is your partner, right? She doesnt know about the concept dad=father. So maybe she sees her friends like she sees "dad" for you?
I'd imagine she'd just think that dad is her dad's name and mom is her mom's name just like bunny is hers. It's the only thing she's called them and the only use of those words she's seen.
I think she considers "Dad" as specifically her owner's name, just like "Selena" is specifically her one dog friend and "Tango" another. I think she's asking if dad can take her to her friend, just like she sometimes says "Dad play" (dad will you play with me/can dad play with me), she's asking "Dad Tango" (dad will you take or join me to Tango/can dad take me to Tango).
I wonder if she loves her dad so much that she is trying to convey that her friends are at dad level of love. So she’s not thinking they’re her dad, but she likes them like she likes dad.
This may add a new twist to the term PET scan! (Positron Emission Tomography) But yeah, I'd be very curious to know how/if her brain function has changed too! I do know that when they study dog's brains, they use dogs that have been conditioned to get into the scanning machines and hold still and ignore the sounds it makes. I wonder if Bunny could be trained, or rather how long it would take to train her. And if it's possible to do brain scans outside of a machine while she's actually using the buttons.
She's actually already sending the data to researchers at a university who analyze the data and try to determine Bunny's thought process. I really don't think her brain would have changed much because there have already been plenty of cases of dogs learning hundreds of words. I don't think Bunny would have a unique brain compared to such dogs. At most, the language center of her brain might be more active since she has to think of ways to communicate her thoughts instead of only understanding one-sided conversations. The real data would come form what happens in her brain WHILE she is pressing the buttons. However, that would be difficult to do. Removing Bunny from her home environment would or bringing strangers into that home environment and forcing her to wear strange equipment will alter the natural data. As it is now, the best data is that produced in her natural environment when she is having "normal" conversations with the people she trusts...
I’m not sure if anyone else has said this in your comments, but I think Bunny was saying “Tango is dad’s friend” when she said “Tango Dad Tango Friend”, especially if she saw them having fun together-no?
This is ABSOLUTELY brilliant! Where does one get the buttons and mat? I always thought our pets are smarter that we give them credit for. I want my dog to have this ability!
I like how people say "she doesn't actually know what she's saying she is just repeating the phrases you taught her" as if that isn't how we all learn how to speak.
people say that?
there goes my last drop of faith in the logical process of humanity.
@@corvidax Oh, yeah, I see a crap ton of them.
To that, I say they laughed at the Wright brothers, too.
These kinds of channels are merely still discovering more and more about this concept. I'd love to see where this takes us in the future.
@@Whimsy3692 Me too! My dog is a Yorkshire terrier, and though it’s impossible to rule out confirmation bias, we are teaching her rudimentary phrases without the use of buttons. The buttons are unavailable to us at this time, but we’re getting them ASAP!
Children are actually really bad verbal imitators so the likelihood that they learn language like that is pretty low. I do think Bunny knows what she's saying though, she's just had to learn through repetition as this isn't a natural communication channel for her
There’s a difference between mimicry and skill. We do learn from mimicry, but what is shown here is some form of skill.
“Just to be clear, Tango is not your dad” had me laughing out loud
Probably she was trying to say Tango is to her like "Dad" is to camera person
@@eky omg
@@eky that is clever.
@@eky WOAH-
Maybe Tango is giving off daddy vibes.
"Still thinking about your friends", then she replied with all of her friend's names.
Thats the cutest thing ever.
Time stamp?
@@hearts4mikeafton 3:23
When a dog has more friends than you..
And thats what I was thinking!
WORD!
literally yes
Tbf, who wouldn't want to be friends with Bunny?
Seriously tho
Doggo doesnt understand why she cant live together with all of her friends ;_;
8yr-old me sympathizes 😤
@@cimplecyrup 42-yr-old me sympathizes!
Dogs are pack animals.
@@dogwalker666
Humans are herd animals
@@karnewarrior some are, some are not more like cats.
It's so cute how her mouth opens, almost in shock, when she learns that dad is friend.
Talking is one thing, knowing what she is thinking about is a whole different insight.
She knows
@@cyan7460 she knows shit ffs
@@angie73568 you don't think she knows what she's saying?
Yeah! She is just able to speak a bit of all she is thinking.
@@cyan7460 I agree. I just sent a copy of this to a friend with the comment of how you can basically see the wheels in her brain spinning as she thinks about the question (or statement from Mom), and how she is going to answer. You can SEE that she's thinking about it!
It’s fascinating seeing just how much bunny understand you. Her little head tilts prove it. At first I was very skeptical of this process and thought it was coincidence whenever she pressed the correct buttons but now I’m sure for the most part bunny understands you
Dogs can understand around 160-260 words, however certain breeds like poodles/border Collies can go to 1000 words
@@WhiteWolfos And that 1000 mark may not even be the limit. We just have yet to develop a logistically feasible method to test them past that point. These dog buttons are the first time we've really had a way to start assessing how well they know words and how many -- but even so, look at how much floor space is taken up just by what Bunny has already. It is an interesting challenge.
@@SmartassEyebrows I'm sure it's more than that.
They tested names for over 800 toys which a border collie singled out no problem on the first try. Add that to the existing words and I'm sure they are mighty capable of learning plenty.
@@WhiteWolfos are there even 800 different dog toys in the world? lmfao, that’s wild
I mean at the end of the day that's how babies learn to talk. They just make random sounds trying to figure out how their mouths work and we reinforce the hell out of anything that sounds remotely like a word.
"Is tango my dad?"
"No, tango is not your dad."
"is... is beacher my dad?"
Maybe Bunny was talking about Tango and Beacher being males like dad
i dont know i think she uses "dad" on Beacher and Tango because they are males. I might be wrong, but she didn't use it for Selena... who knows..
Perhaps. It depends if Bunny relates “dad” to a specific person, or if she relates it to “someone who is male.”
Or if she's asking if Dad and Beacher are friends?
Because he's working, Bunny's "Dad" doesn't go out to play when Bunny meets her friends.
So maybe she's bringing up her friends and Dad to ask if they are also friends with each other..?
I wonder how much a dog has any idea about the sexes of humans.
@@JackVermicelli Dogs are social animals so they should pick up on the differences.
Humans are social animals too, but without taking a good look, we don't readily distinguish between male and female dogs.
The fact she tilts her head when you talk is absoultly amazing. She's actively listening to you and trying to comprehend what you're saying
Dogs lack vertical directional location for the incoming sound. As such, they have to tilt their heads to position sound coming from above or below correcly (using horizontal directional location).
From a linguistic pragmatics standpoint, there is nothing in the language use patterns to which Bunny has been exposed (that we know of) that would convey a gendered association with words 'mom' or 'dad,' or even any biological relationship, although kinship may be implied. She most likely thinks that those are the names of her two most intimate humans. But to have enough background knowledge to grasp what a 'mom' or a 'dad' is in our conventional sense, she would probably need to be exposed to puppies and their moms/dads, have puppies herself. The meanings of words depend mainly on how they are used in a shared social and linguistic context. Words are actually more often signals and tools than they are labels for things "out there" in the world. Also, I agree with the comment below that the syntactic conventions of many Asian languages that do not decline or conjugate words are much easier to grasp than the complicated, convoluted grammar of English. The key here, based on my research at least, is exposing Bunny to meaningful contexts of usage. When she has these and is repeatedly exposed in ways that demonstrate meaning through the context in a manner that is relevant to her world and life and needs, then she can learn many concepts quite well. And as for any Anthroposupremacists out there trying to insist on human superiority, blah blah, ask yourself how many words of Dog or Cat or Parrot any nonhuman species do YOU know? Compared to Bunny, in this respect, most of us seem downright developmentally challenged. If you reflect on the fact that the average domestic household animal like a cat or dog, recognizes approximately 150 words of the language to which they are routinely exposed, and we humans who cohabitate with them recognize, few if any, nonhuman linguistic/semiotic cues, it puts things into a different perspective. The work being done here is so promising and important. I hope the research findings and study will be published sooner rather than later. Thanks for sharing this. It's wonderful.
I appreciate learning that there’s a word for an attitude that’s been bothering me since childhood. Thank you. Anthroposupremacy.
In defense of some humans, I think few can communicate in canine sounds, but many of us do a good job understanding much of the language of our dogs. I expect there are folks with similar receptive communication skills with many other animals. 💚
Similar to how Lady from "Lady and the Tramp" refers to her owners as "Jim Dear and Darling".
@@MarcyPeska Agreed completely. There are good humans too. Some of us feel immense gratitude for the love nonhuman animals give us and appreciate the unique intelligence of myriad life forms. Some of us know how privileged we are to be able so intimately to experience the sentience of another kind of life. But we have a long way to go as a species before we stop thinking in retrogressive ways based on invidious hierarchies among lifeforms. All species are exceptional in their own ways. Most of them play vital roles in the ecosystems that vital to the life support systems of our planet. Ironically, our domesticated companion species are almost as out of sync with an ecosystems existence as we humans are, "feedlot" animals even moreso. But that's not their fault. That's a structural arrangement humans have set up--an exploitative arrangement that relies in large part on our denial of their sentience, awareness, emotional and social lives, intelligence, and especially something like a capacity for language. Human Exceptionalist arguments ("Man" is the only species that uses tools, has language, makes art, has culture, has a sense of family and kinship, has societies, has a division of labor, experiences joy, understands death, has a sense of futurity and doesn't just live in the present) did a lot of conceptual work for us to "thingify" nonhuman animals, and justify horrific levels of exploitation, destruction of life, habitat, and even the idea that we could "own" a sentient creature like an object. Yet new scientific research in the past 30+ years has systematically debunked every tenet of our supposed exceptionalism. Art we different? Of course? Do we share more in common than separates us? Often, yes (the extent depends on the species -- it's a no-brainer that we surely have more in common with cats and dogs and birds than mosquitos or bacteria or viruses). All species are evolutionarily exceptional. But only one species intentionally seeks to negate the intrinsic value of other species en mass and creates an elaborate philosophical and cultural apparatus to justify and legitimate what would otherwise seem unspeakable and appalling. Anthroposupremacism is the root cause of climate change, mass extinction, and all the various assaults on our planet's basic life support systems that we share with the other lifeforms who help make the world. Witnessing language use, communication, and sophisticated emotional intelligence in another species radically challenges the presuppositions of Anthroposupremacy. Animals are not humans, true. But humans are a kind of animal. And seeing ourselves as part of a great web of diversely intelligent and capable, creative life that we rely on to co-make a liveable, habitable world, is a small first step towards an ecosystems mode of living where we learn to find balance with all of nature instead of parasitically extracting from it until we kill out host and ultimately ourselves as a result. I am so grateful to the many scientists and ethologists, and other scholars, and activists working to challenge our untenable, outdated cultural models for thinking of the Human in opposition to all other species. We have a short decade in which to make radical changes to how we live, including with other species, and changing the way we think about ourselves and/in the world is a necessary part of that change. Let's not fuck this world up any further, people. Let's identify and make systemic changes while there's still time.
We aren’t using buttons but I know for sure that my cat recognizes my daughter by name and she recognizes my name as being “mummy”, because that is what my daughter calls me. If the name is used she will instantly look at/ look for that person.
Maybe add a button with "dads" name? That way they could teach her "blank is dad"
Do your neighbors/friends find it funny when you say “Bunny’s been talking about you all day!”?
It's interesting to see how much she talks about other dogs cause I always wonder how much my dog remembers my friends dogs and like the dogs she sees on walks and stuff.
Oh they have dog friends. My dog disliked a lot of dogs but she was beasties with a poodle she met and on good terms with next door neighbours dog lol they adopt a whole new demeanor when they see friend or foe like people.
Dogs remember their friends. I took my dog to the dog park and one of our family friends was there with their dog that he had met many times in the past. He made a b-line straight to the dog that was his friend even though there were a ton of other dogs.
It just goes to show us(humans) what they are thinking about. That’s some deep thinking coming from Bunny. She makes me smile
DOESN'T BUNNY AMAZE YOU EVERY SINGLE TIME? I AM SO IN 💘!! AND IT DOESN'T HURT THAT SHE IS ABSOLUTELY GEORGOUS!!✨✨🌼💜🌼🌻🌼🌻🌼🌻🌼🌻🌼🌻🌼🌻🌼🌻
"Where sound?"
"I dunno... why are you standing there?.. Well might as well say that I love my friends."
Can't believe how intelligent Bunny is
Makes you wonder about all the doggos we've known, right? How smart were they?
@@joeyj6808 yeah, i want to know what all of them think. I wish I could have my dogs with me and teach them at least simple buttons :(
Nearly all animals are intelligent. The problem we have is that they can't speak so we assume they are not. Given tools like this or teaching them sign language allows them to communicate in a way that we understand. Perhaps humans are the dumb ones! Animals can learn and adapt to us, but we can't seem to learn and adapt to their body language or way of communication.
Could she be asking about Tango's "dad"?
When she clicked out, "hear sound come" it seemed she was trying to tell you to listen better to what she was communicating about "Tango" and "dad", because she grew puzzled when you responded as if she was telling you about a sound elsewhere, and didn't attempt to clarify along that line of questioning, but tried another track altogether.
Then she kind of dropped the whole matter, very much as a toddler might do when they get nowhere in trying to query an adult about a new topic that they just don't have the right language to communicate about.
Maybe Bunny heard Tango's dad come home? Maybe Bunny recognizes his car or the way he walks...
I was thinking along the same path
@@ninajansson5826 does tango even have a dad?
If they dont, that could mean bunny was asking who is tango's dad. Like wondering why she has never seen him
I wonder if dogs understand not ALL dogs have both a mom and dad.
Sorta like how you need to explain to a toddler why their friend has only a mom or dad or two moms/dads
@@almond3066 Very interesting!
I don't know if there is a 'dad' in Tango's family.
It would be amazing if she was wondering why Tango's family structure is different to her own.
I want to se Bunny talk more about Tango's family. Now. I can't wait....!
Innnnnnnnteresting
I think Bunny might have an easier time answering questions if you used "Hmm?" after each one. She may not realize that "Where Sound" is a question.
I've also felt she doesn't respond correctly to Bunny, but figured I'd get slammed as a hater. Like when Bunny keeps insisting on "Sound," and she responds with "Sound Upstairs?" Bunny had not said anything about "upstairs," and the response seemed to confuse her. Maybe, being a Dog, she just wants to stick her nose out the door and check things out
@@lucygray6162 I think she was frustrated on trying to make new words to be able to ask about "the thing" that's constantly on the mirror. that's why she last says sound what come come.
I feel like my dog would be Sharing secrets if he could talk like bunny 😂 love your videos!
She loves her friends like her family, is what I take from that.🤷♀️
I wonder though this might be a stretch, Bunny has a separate style of communication with her friends, other dogs, other animals, and a separate style of communication with you her owners...does that make Bunny bilingual in a sense?
Dogish with friends.
English with Mom.
They always were. The play bows and body language they use with dogs is different than the way they interact with us.
@@MimifromChicago hahaah yes and yet they sniff everyone the same. Right in the private parts. 😂
I think that she needs a button for "love" alone, since "love you" is now being used much more frequently now
She does say "love you Mom" and "love you Dad," so I guess it's not too far off if she starts learning "love Selena," etc.
She seems to be using it as an adjective too, like Dear Selena
It's amazing that she seems to understand such an abstract non tangible notion of a word.
Love and you should be separate words since they are separate words.
I love how she listens to you, thinks, and walks over to the board. The way her head tilts, or her mouth opens.. She is so smart and expressive as well.. Seems she's adapting some body language🤔
It is so cool to know doggos think about their friends and family so much! It's like every single video of Bunny just makes me happier than the last. Thank you all for doing this!
Like a kid trying to set up a bunch of playdates!
In the beginning, could she mean that she became friends with Tango's "dad" recently?
I was thinking along the same lines.
@emluvskawaii or may be any known male person is dad for her. Nobody knows what exactly she understands for each word.
I feel like PERHAPS she's saying she has a love for Tango like she has a love for "Dad" (or family in general?).🤷♀️
I thought it may’ve meant that Tango and Dad are friends or became friends with each other.
I was thinking she might want her dad to take her to see Tango. Or maybe dad went with them to see Tango last time?
I feel like she’s having a herding crisis 😂
Beacher, Salina, Tango, and Dad are all over the place. She loves them and wants to play with them all!
Just remembered an irrelevant story from the "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon" series - guy goes into the bar with his dog and does ventriloquist tricks to get a free drink. When he orders the drink, the barkeep (who learnt to read lips in noisy bars) realises the man is mute and the dog is the ventriloquist.
She's so precious
Some Asian languages use time as a modifier and a perfect tense verb and rarely use past/present/future tense. Wonder if that is how Bunny understands too?
That was exceptional! Especially the end where she named all her friends. Good girl!
Its interesting now that bunny knows some words, she now possibly thinks in her head with those words like humans
damn
my brain just exploded with this idea. It does make sense that this could be happening and its crazy
Owner: Just got offer letter from Harvard!
Bunny: YOU, SAD, MINE, OFFER, Opps!
Bunny is so cute! She is working so hard to work out what is being said to her and how to respond. xx
Seeing you all work together to communicate so very clearly is amazing to watch. It's really important stuff... And cute and funny (though must be frustrating for everyone at times)!
Once again, thanks.
Now wouldn't it be cool if all of Bunny's little playmates, especially Tango, Beacher and Selena, knew how to use the button boards to speak as well? That would be a sight to behold watching them paw their buttons and make their "I'm thinking" faces as they try to get their points across.
...but they speak Dog already...
I do know what you mean though.
@@wayneessar7489 😂And I know what you mean too. Good point. 😁
I was really wondering if after this gets popular and lots of dogs are doing it, maybe they will make sort of a standard button layout and meanings for all dogs so that they can be brought together and possibly communicate with eachother and be familiar with eachother's set up since they're the same. Also maybe after a while we'll learn of dogs trying to teach other dogs.
@@tls5870 It is an old saying that monkeys/apes secretly already know how to talk......but they refuse to do it for fear that we humans will put them to work. 😂 But on a more serious note yes I see your logic. I too think there is a huge potential with our dogs to learn more and more. But there is a yt channel where a lady has 2 dogs using talk buttons. It looks like a hot mess. The dogs just seem confused. Bunny's mom and dad could teach 2 dogs at once.....because they are very intentional with what/why/how. But I think they choose to have only 1 dog for a reason. Other people have good intentions but don't have the teacher skills to get it done.
bunny has more best friends than me 😂
I discovered your channel like a week ago. I've literally watched EVERYTHING. I need MOAR!!
Amazing....impressive. Her intelligence is like a human child, very specific in her communications. Mum is patient and loving makes communicating with her such wonderful experience to watch.
Bunny is brilliant! Can’t believe how she expresses her feelings so clearly.
That dog's thinking face is the best..
I love watching her pause to mentally construct what she wants to say in buttons 🥰🐾
I love when Bunny stops and thinks so hard and purposefully. Good girl Bunny!!! ❤️
I think shes adding Dad into her list of people and dogs that she loves. She lights up when she is with them. You are the person she has a very special relationship with. Her BFF 💞
Are there days were Bunny just won’t “talk” or press her buttons? I mean for me there’s days where I don’t really want to say anything so I don’t. Do you find that Bunny has days like that too?
She once said in an interview that the amount on inteaction with the buttons varies. Some days she uses them 20 seperate times to express thoughts and have convos, on other days it's only 3 or 4 uses. If I recall that correctly. Seems like on days where not much is happening and she is not in the mood to communicate verbally she just says less.
from what i have seen from their posts and streams she might not be super talkative every day but she dose at least communicate when she wants to play, eat or go outside. I've even seen a few days where she's made it clear with the "all done" and "bye" buttons when shes had enough and just wants to lay down.
@@monamaennchen thank you so much
@@aidensnew8562 thank you for the assistance it means a lot
I've heard her mention that she's more chatty on some days than others as well. Obviously we see her chatty moments because that's the entertaining part that brings more views, but she has her quiet moments/days too I guess.
It's nice that the buttons are there if she wants to use them to express herself, but she has the option of just NOT, & that's still totally acceptable too. I'm jealous!😂
Bunny is so cute! Watching her learn words that aren't nouns and basic verbs is so cool. I daydream about the day my little dog chats with me like this.
its lovely to see how se has evolved and how you have improoved her tools to communicate
Just gets more adorable with every video.
Thank you to Bunny and her parents for bringing some joy in 2020. Love you, Bunny, scritches!
I love that there's an "Oops" button, for mistakes ...good thinking!
This is an amazing insight into how dogs do actually think about things, like friends, playing, going out. I have always said having a dog is like living with a toddler.
I then wonder how many other animals are this sentient? Making our decision to count them as a food group even more morally dubious.
I love watching bunny, watching her think through things. She's adorably cute to look at too.
I love how she always presses “come” almost urgently.
Looks like Bunny just played by the water. ♥️
Ok this is the most adorable Bunny video!
I remember reading someone's comments saying that Bunny's owner's were delusional if they thought she could actually mean what she was pressing. Wonder what they have to say for themselves if they watched this. I'm fascinated by the way Bunny is thinking and I can actually understand her. Or maybe I'm delusional too. :)
probably they would say the same thing, or say that the dog was trained to push specific buttons, which kind of makes the whole capacity for dogs to learn obvious, but for that guy, it wouldn't click.
Don't waste energy thinking about the unconvinced. They may one day change their minds but, it seems it isn't what you believe, and that's also ok. :)
some people are just desperate to look like the smartest person in the room. Alexis has said many times she has no idea how much of this is actual communication and how much is just a fun trick Bunny likes doing. The way I see it this is a happy dog who gets tons of positive attention from her owners and enrichment games and is living her best pupper life and if it also turns out that she's at the forefront of canine/human communication then that's just a swell little bonus for us all. So don't lose sleep over the people who are always going to be calling this a scam because they have nothing better to do. The dog is happy, that's what matters.
Could bunny possibly mean dad as someone she likes? Like her "dad" is your partner, right? She doesnt know about the concept dad=father. So maybe she sees her friends like she sees "dad" for you?
That's what I think too
AWWW that’s so cute!! Probably!!
I'd imagine she'd just think that dad is her dad's name and mom is her mom's name just like bunny is hers. It's the only thing she's called them and the only use of those words she's seen.
I think she considers "Dad" as specifically her owner's name, just like "Selena" is specifically her one dog friend and "Tango" another. I think she's asking if dad can take her to her friend, just like she sometimes says "Dad play" (dad will you play with me/can dad play with me), she's asking "Dad Tango" (dad will you take or join me to Tango/can dad take me to Tango).
All this time, man's best friend just needed our help to give them the ability to have a conversation with us.
I love watching her think
I wonder if she loves her dad so much that she is trying to convey that her friends are at dad level of love. So she’s not thinking they’re her dad, but she likes them like she likes dad.
Fascinating!
Yesterday i went to dog training and he told us to look u up Already love you
Bunny has a much more active social life than I do!
I love it that she really wants to communicate much more.
Truly amazing
Bunny wants all the friends! NOW. All the love now!
God I just LOVE YOU BUNNY!!!
I see dog sitting quietlyin a corner..wonder what he's thinking about. Bunny actually TELLS you who she's thinking about and lists them!
I could watch a live stream of this for hours honestly
Bunny is such a sweetheart 🤗🥰
you make me smile everytime~!
Can you work with neuroscientists to see how Bunny's brain pattern has changed throughout her learning process?? Would be interesting! 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓
Yes now they need some functional mri of Bunny talking. I’m so fascinated with these pets talking! Amazing!
This may add a new twist to the term PET scan!
(Positron Emission Tomography)
But yeah, I'd be very curious to know how/if her brain function has changed too!
I do know that when they study dog's brains, they use dogs that have been conditioned to get into the scanning machines and hold still and ignore the sounds it makes. I wonder if Bunny could be trained, or rather how long it would take to train her. And if it's possible to do brain scans outside of a machine while she's actually using the buttons.
She's actually already sending the data to researchers at a university who analyze the data and try to determine Bunny's thought process. I really don't think her brain would have changed much because there have already been plenty of cases of dogs learning hundreds of words. I don't think Bunny would have a unique brain compared to such dogs. At most, the language center of her brain might be more active since she has to think of ways to communicate her thoughts instead of only understanding one-sided conversations. The real data would come form what happens in her brain WHILE she is pressing the buttons. However, that would be difficult to do. Removing Bunny from her home environment would or bringing strangers into that home environment and forcing her to wear strange equipment will alter the natural data. As it is now, the best data is that produced in her natural environment when she is having "normal" conversations with the people she trusts...
This is amazing! :-)
WOW is just all I can say! She counted all her friends, all 3 of them in the end there
I love watching her process her thinking 🤔. Sweet BunBun😘
She always looks like she’s thinking deeply about life, the universe and everything.
For a second I thought bunny was wanting dad to dance with them
"Bye Selena" after playing with Selena. That I so damn cute 🥰🥰
I love this family
A pack animal wants to see its pack. That's not unusual, but the communication of the thought certainly is!
Sounds like she wants a friend who lives with her. ❤️
and the 'dad of tango' , is a friend too.
You'd think this dog will be very happy with a brother or sister dog she gets along with!
Amazing 😊
💜💜💜
Seems to me by "friend-Tango-dad-Beacher", she's just listing all individuals she knows as friends.
I LOVE BUNNYYYYY!
Bunny: Play Selena
Me: Bunny has great taste in music.
I’m not sure if anyone else has said this in your comments, but I think Bunny was saying “Tango is dad’s friend” when she said “Tango Dad Tango Friend”, especially if she saw them having fun together-no?
I don't think she's saying Beacher is dad. I think she's naming friends because she wants to play with them. She is very social.
I agree, she is using "Dad" as a name
"Tango is not your dad"
Bunny: 👁👄👁
Amazing
I think he was listing what entities belong to the category Friend, and wanted a confirmation that he got the concept Friend correct.
I think Bunny was asking if Dad was friends with Tango. I think Bunny likes Tango and wants her dad to like Tango too. Too cute. 🥺
Congrats on being noticed in yt's facebook account!
Bunny is so cute!
incredible it's deep thought
This is ABSOLUTELY brilliant! Where does one get the buttons and mat? I always thought our pets are smarter that we give them credit for. I want my dog to have this ability!
Is there any way to read the finished paper that they are working on together with bunny when it's finished?
God I’d have loved this when studying psychology at a level this would have been a bomb ass case study to include in the language unit
Bunny is like a record producer searching for that authentic Dad Tango Beacher Selena sound.
We could all learn something from bunny..... She thinks before she speaks. 🐶