The Truth About the Self Aware Dog Who Talks With Buttons
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
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A biologist and animal behavior expert is surprised by what she finds when she takes a close look at What About Bunny the dog who talks with buttons and has an existential crisis.
00:00 - Bunny the Dog
00:57 - KPassionate
02:05 - Bunny the Dog Reaction
03:00 - Is Bunny Self Aware?
04:26 - Study on Dogs Talking With Buttons
06:00 - Do Dogs Recognize Themselves in Mirrors?
07:25 - What About Bunny's Existential Crisis?
See part one here → • Do Pet Buttons Work? T...
My original video on Bunny the Dog → • Can This Self Aware Do...
My take on Billie the Cat → • Can This CAT Talk USIN...
Breaking down Koko the Gorilla → • The Bizarre Truth Abou...
Alpha Dogs Debunked → • Debunking Dominance Th...
The mirror video, where Bunny the dog has an existential crisis, is one of the videos that many people claim is the best evidence that dogs can talk with buttons. My original goal was to use this video to talk about some of the really fascinating studies that have been done regarding canine cognition and self awareness. But this video gave me a really weird vibe. So I took a closer look…
From a scientific evidentiary aspect, this video is great, because it isn’t edited and we can clearly see Bunny’s mom press two individual buttons. “Who.” And “This.” If we rewind and zoom in… Bunny the dog only presses one button. The button for “this.” Bunny never presses the “who” button. Yet we hear “who” and are told she said “who this.” The video evidence here is clear, and so is the science.
Only a few animal species have passed the mirror self-recognition test, including great apes, dolphins, elephants, and even some birds like magpies. But no dog has ever passed the mirror self-recognition test. Dogs react to mirrors the same way most animals do - as if it is another member of their species. They quickly learn to ignore mirrors or in some cases, use them as tools.
I’ve now looked at three videos that were suggested by people who strongly disagree with my original take on dogs talking with buttons and What About Bunny. Two of the videos were heavily edited and the third appears to be staged or doctored. These videos quite simply would not hold up to a rigorous peer-review if they were part of an academic study.
But wait… isn’t Bunny the dog part of an academic study? Yes but… there are some things we need to consider. For starters, the study is funded by the button company itself. And one of the lead researchers is the company’s Founder and CEO. Anyone can register their pet for this study. As long as they buy the buttons. Participants are also encouraged to share their stories on social media.
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Watch part 1 here → ua-cam.com/video/KMPGDoXqNPM/v-deo.html
See the original video → ua-cam.com/video/jBwT94a2DXU/v-deo.html
What about Koko the gorilla? → ua-cam.com/video/IdUHZt8lsCA/v-deo.html
My take on Billie the Cat → ua-cam.com/video/fzozYCHz4og/v-deo.html
Alpha Dogs Debunked → ua-cam.com/video/PXsBmDKevEk/v-deo.html
Well a walrus is basically a giant dog with fins, so I think you're qualified to talk about dogs. But I have a german shepard that is 8 weeks old, i didn't change the paper soon enough and she brought it to me wanting it to be changed. On the other hand, as smart as she is, she still chews up random stuff she finds outside
My dog uses buttons. They’re an enrichment experience, and in some ways they’re a method of physical communication, like when she asks for water or to go outside, however every one of them is a conditioned response that I’ve built. She’s not “talking” to me, she’s hitting a button to get a known reaction out of me.
Isn’t that what language is? You say something because it gives a certain response/ means something typically.
@@xdani_thethinkingneko not all communication is language. Just because two living creatures are interacting back and forth and communicating doesn’t mean that they have language. Language has a lexicon, which button dogs are limited to only their buttons, grammar which even humans get wrong I suppose syntax which is highly important and my dog often gets wrong as she punches her buttons in different orders at times, phonemes are gifted to the dogs via the buttons, they aren’t capable of making the sounds and we never see morphemes which is “I, the, but, or”. We consider children to be “pre-linguistic” until they have at least a basic grasp on the use of these things. Children don’t really grasp literacy and understanding until they have a conduit for these parts of language and any child who is incapable of reaching a part of this language threshold is considered developmentally disabled. I’m happy that I got to use my Communications Degree today and I hope you learned something.
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@@xdani_thethinkingneko No. There is a difference there. If you re-read and think about it, it is pretty clear.
@@xdani_thethinkingneko dogs don't interpret language. Humans for instance can hear a phrase and consider that there might be several meanings to it and respond in several different ways . Dog learns to ring a bell to go pee by being shown that if it rings the bell when it needs to pee it gets to go outside. It can't then learn to ring the bell to get your attention because it's hungry....it's always ring bell go pee
It can't be beyond the wit of humanity to just build the poor dog a regular USB keyboard with big buttons, then we can settle all this with a simple interview.
That's another thing, right? If Bunny could speak reliably and accurately, then she would be doing it live on every talk show in the country.
I did this. Her answer was "nope." 😂
@@mixedmedialife7916 That's still pretty good, maybe the shift key was broken!
Well, you can do that now with Bing Copilot :)
@@rpstoval2328does it actually have a dog version? If not I can use the regular version and just slather it with meat or something.
I love how all my favourite UA-camrs are just casually becoming A-Grade investigative journalists (also I love your top and those cool floating potted plants)
The mirror was placed there on purpose to find out whether Bunny would be interested in her reflection and if so, whether she would recognise herself. Nothing weird.
What is weird is that the video was faked and that Bunny only pressed the "this" button and never pressed the "who" button even though we heard "who this." Maybe watch the entire video next time before commenting.
Don’t make excuses for the scammers
You're right THAT isn't weird. What's weird is that the owner placed a meaning on Bunny's action. That meaning was that Bunny is self aware and then later depressed and needs pills.
Yeah I have no idea exactly what’s going on in this video…. BUT one possibility is: maybe she’s honestly asking, “who is this dog in the mirror?” She isn’t saying this is Bunny. She’s asking “who this”? Not “this is me!” So the mirror test is kind of irrelevant here
She clearly only pressed one button like she said in the video
I can’t believe nobody caught that about the video and noticed she didn’t even press both buttons. 😂 it’s also so depressing that the people questioning your credentials of course don’t apply the same scrutiny to the people claiming to have talking dogs. It just makes it obvious they’re being incredibly biased because they want to believe animals are like Disney characters and can talk to us like humans can.
OMG! I did't even think about that - you're right, the people questioning KP's credentials _never_ question the owners of these dogs and _their_ motivation or manipulation.
It's never the people making the Extraordinary Claim who are put under scrutiny, is it? It's only the people - often very, very knowledgable and experienced people - who are pointing out the flaws in the claims who come under public scrutiny. 🤦♂
And really, our dogs don’t need to be Disney characters in order for us to appreciate their amazingness.
It's not a boy or a girl or a baby; it's a _dog_ and that is a compliment because a dog is a good thing to be!
I've only seen the cat with these buttons but never believed she knew which ones to push, only that she was using them to get attention. My cat knows she'll likely get treats when she bangs the cabinet door or immediately draws my attention when she climbs to the top of her scratching post and these buttons are no different. The tapping and subsequent noises elicit an immediate response from the parents and she'll just tap randomly until she gets what she wants, whether that's treats, affection or just interaction
You should watch the chronicles of Todd channel. He's a cat that was able to tell his human dad that his "head" hurt. Apparently. His mouth was still hurting after a mouth surgery. When it should have recovered already. So that lead to another trip to the vet to have it looked at again. So, zi believe it is possible for our pets to learn what words to use to commit icate what tgey want. Especially since it's already known that tgey can understan a limited level of human vocabulary the kinger they are with their human companions.
@@lovefortruth3414 Animals can easily express pain and anyone that's dealt with a pet's health issue knows to watch closely for behavior changes, even after the estimated recovery period has ended. Animals absolutely can communicate with us but cats and dogs don't understand the individual words, they're just responding to tone of voice, body language, and learned habits.
@@Cara-39 yes it's true that pet parents can pick up on cues that our fur kids aren't feeling well. But to say that we I mals can't pick up 9n key words when we speak t9 them 8s 8gnoraht. And yes, even the most attentive pet parent can sometimes miss dignity that their fur kid is in well. Let me g8ve an example that show that it's extremely possible that animals can learn more 9f their humans' language than we know or give them credit for:
True story: I had 4 cats at one time, and theyv loved to hunt, as cats usually do. They left us "gifts" by our front door alot. Mice, moles, voles, birds, squirrels, you name it. Now, we didn't mind them hunting the mice, moles and voles, because it kept them from 8nfesting our house. But we really didn't want them k8lling the other critters that we liked having around. Do you know what my mom did?,she sat with each cat one at a time and gave each one a lecture ab9ut not killing the birds and squirrels. Guess what? After that day, the only dead animals that landed in front of our door were the mice, moles and voles that we didn't want around. Not one bird or squirrels was ever left there again. Our cats knew. They new enough w9rds to get the context of the message. Sounds crazy, but it actually happened. Yes, their knowledge of vocabulary is surely limited. I jus5 strongly believe it's not as l8mited as we've Bern told it is
@@lovefortruth3414 What I meant, and didn't convey correctly, is that dogs don't have the cognition to create sentences out of the word buttons or interpret what they see, like an ambulance for example, and string specific words together to explain it. The people using these buttons want to believe their pets are learning and processing language but it's not happening.
As far as cats go, they do not understand/learn certain words like dogs do, in that they associate certain words with actions, like they know the word treat means one is coming, and they can recognize their name but they cannot interpret sentences. Essentially, cats understand human language the way we understand their meows; different sounds and tones means something but they're not actual words. I don't doubt you believe your cats understood the lectures they received as we're all biased where our pets are concerned but the lack of birds at the door may just mean you didn't see them, not that the cats stopped hunting them. In any case, anecdotes aren't considered evidence as they're just one person's interpretation of an event.
@@Cara-39 I'm not saying that our pets' knowledge of human vocabulary isn't limited. What I'm saying is, that they can put certain key words in context when we speak to them, especially after having been around us long enough to know what actions or objects are associated with those words. So, likewise, they can be trained to associate familiar words with different buttons, and then use those same buttons to tell their humans what they want. And just like anyone else some know more words and context than what we give them credit for. We can't read their minds. We can only go by body language and the tone of their meows, barks, growls and wines. But they can learn which button to push to tell us why they are mad, sad, or in pain, which has Been demonstrated with other videos.
An anomoly well spotted. Thanks for pointing that one out.
I didnt believe she was recognising herself in the mirror anyway but seeing that she didnt even press the correct button sequence either makes this very suspect indeed (honestly I think its a load of twaddle)
thanks for sharing
There are studies on animal species recognizing their reflections as their own. This isn't too deter from the points made in the video, just to point it that animals have been shown to recognize their reflection. even human babies are taught to recognize their reflection.
@@phoenafox Children of abt 18 months old and a few animal species can pass the mirror test but dogs and cats cannot. I think this specific dog was either trained or learned to look at the mirror after pushing buttons to get a reward as who leaves a mirror on the floor like that? The whole thing just feels staged even without obvious button manipulation
Our chicken accompanied us everywhere from hatch, including medieval events. When we put on her "garb" she knew the game was on. Our friends spoke to her like any other person. Everyone knew her name, and she answered back when it was said. Picture a standard red hen, wearing an embroidered linen tunic, bronze Thor's hammer, leather belt, sword sheath, sword, and a teeny bottle of mead. She somehow realized she was more....imposing in her outfit. She would stand guard in front of the tents with passionate authority. (she did actually meet "jon snow" at Comicon) It truly felt to me that she understood herself to be...at the moment....her "warrior persona" She watched battle. (LOTS of noise. Lots of movement. No actual injuries. It took a few times for her to become accustomed to that.) She trilled to mandolin ballads, joined us at feasts (good table manners) and joined in group sings around the campfire. She seemed, to all eyes, actually enjoying and participating. She would call to favorite people in our clan. And put herself to sleep in a basket lined with sheepskin in a tent. (she knew "home" moves on the weekends) We "considered" her a person, and I think she grew to understand that. Maybe it was just us; but I'm pretty sure she was more self aware than most chickens.
I went to your profile hoping to see your chicken
I'd love to see her outfits and having fun
🐔💕
@@nussknacker9827 Sure! There are pics of several birds, She's the red one. Most of the pics I had of her dressed up at events, including Comicon, were on a phone that got run over by a car. By the time I had purple hair, she was getting old. They only live about six years. 😟 I just adopted four prarie bluebell chicks; and I'm raising them for the same reason. I'll post as it goes.
Thank you for examining those videos They might be entertaining but they are certainly not scientific proof. I have another issue with them. The owner is never shown in the same frame. So we don't see what kind of distraction or signs she is giving the dog to achieve the dogs reaction in the first place..
It appears the reward Bunny is working for is to empty her bladder.
THANK YOU!! I just saw a video about a "talking guinea pig" and it was he final straw. I am EXHAUSTED by this trend. A dog can't talk with buttons, let alone a guinea pig.
what guinea pig? omg im depressed
@@purpleonii The channel is called Button Pigs.
I could be that for some definitions of "talk" a dog can talk with a button. If it knows that pressing a button gets it let outside there is a kind of abstraction there since the button doesn't actually open the door.
I know both of my dogs understand about 20 words and 5 sentences..its by association, like us humans.
Except we associate words to concepts and not actions (unless it's verbs). Dogs can't conceptualize, unfortunately.
Sure they have basic time concepts base on smells, sights and hear..
Dogs can understand concepts to some degree in their own thoughts, but tell me how would one teach a dog what sad means? Or how about "hear" as in "to hear" something? What about even the word "who"? That word only ever makes sense in the context of a sentence about another person. Even "this" how would the dog know that "this" can refer to anything in front of them and not one particular thing? It would be confusing for them to try and wrap their brains around and likely impossible.
They can learn what walk means, treat, sit, come, etc. Because they are verbs and easy for them to understand.
Dogs are very intelligent but I just don't think they can learn concepts like humans can.
It's of huge importance what you're saying and it applyes to several fields! Thanks for showing up!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Uh, good catch. I watched only some videos of Bunny, but I preferred Billie the cat. I've always wondered what my cat would do with these buttons since he's quite talkative. I play mirror with him too. He usually sits in front of it to wash himself.
Try putting some light object on his head and see if he notices that it happened by the reflection. In that case, you may have an interesting result.
I have seen non-sponsored videos where people do get some result. The pet may learn a button or two but not the large numbers.
My dog was extremely scared and angry at her own reflection when she first came home. Until recently she was still weary of our big balcony window in the night, and went always there to check it in detail. Now home she's completely accustomed to mirrors and completely ignored them, but on walks she often runs towards reflective windows and behaves as if they were other dogs, until she gets close enough to realise, then she comes back at me a bit scared, like confused, i think she somehow realises it's not another dog on closed inspection and gets confused.
Glad to have come across your post. I've seen, randomly, posts of the "talking" dog Bunny and every time I would see one it got under my skin.
They irk me so much. As you might have guessed hahaha
Omgggg I caaaannottt with bunny’s owners lmao. This video just made my life.
@@xobelladonna2443 I know right 😂
@@KPassionate their followers are the types of people that think dogs are smiling when they’re panting 🤣
Since Bunny became popular there’s now a huge array of “talking” pets with these buttons, with various types of very obvious BS being peddled.
What I don't understand: If it was possible to teach dogs or other animals we use for important tasks to speak to us like that, how do people not see that everybody in the field of animal science and training would jump on that in a second and the people who are able to teach that would get insanely rich by teaching their skills to other animal trainers? This type of skill would be a game changer in every field where humans work with animals - rescue dogs, service animals for blind people, k9 units in police and military. Even animal rescue organizations could train e.g. apes or monkeys to talk to them. Training parrots or other talking birds to go to "air surveillance" in case of bush fires, or other natural disasters etc. Even thinking about the opportunities that would open up if we could teach this skill to only one or two species out there just blows my mind. Just imagine guide dogs that could talk to their blind owners by pressing buttons! How can people not see that this is essentially the biggest sign that there videos are not real and just play with our addiction to anthropomorphise everything?
Those same people who Want to Believe will come up with all manner of conspiracies behind why "‘they’ don't want us to know" .
There's also, here in the US, an *_Intense Hostility_* towards anyone with years of advanced education and research experience. Americans _crave_ those, "Joe-12pack proves Eggheads/Nerds/Experts Wrong," stories. So having some average person "discover" something that "Teh Experts" don't know gets clicks from Americans.
Tell me how to get rich from my talking dog? Dogs like that are family. I couldn't train a dog to talk and sell that dog. Im training my kids how to train their dogs to talk, and you can watch my videos for free. My channel isn't monetized. I don't think I'll ever make any money from my dog unless I can train him to hunt morel mushrooms in March. Training my dog is a hobby, unrelated to my job. It's more fun that way. I think it would be awesome to pass on the ability to people who train service dogs. Imagine if the dog sniffing dog can tell you exactly which explosive material it's made out of, so they can judge the blast size. My service/farm dog told me he smelled "bad dogs" at the river (coyotes) and told me he heard "mama goat" when one was giving birth. There are other people on youtube doing similar things as me. It's easy to test if a dog can talk. Take large ziplock bags and put different familiar smells in the bag. Ask the dog to tell the owner what's in each bag. The owner doesn't know. It's a really quick test that proves the transfer of real information (true speech.)
@@theriverschool822If you could teach a dog true human speech (and IDC if by using buttons or barking morse code), literally everybody that works professionally with dogs (incl military and police and they have a lot of budget) would pay you whatever you want to teach them how to do it. If those professions even had the slightest reason to believe that this is possible, they would not only research this but spend insane amounts of money to make it happen. If the military/police is not interested in your cute dog trick - that if legit would be a game changer - your cute little dog trick isn't legit. Full stop.
@@theriverschool822 What you are experiencing … possibly … is the Clever Hans Effect.
If you never heard of him, Clever Hans was a horse who seemed to perform all sorts of feats of intelligence. Even had someone other than the owner test Hans out.
But, Hans wasn't really performing those feats of intelligence. He was, however, doing something equally-impressive yet lying hidden underneath the external tricks: _Reading Human Cues Expertly._
Clever Hans' cleverness was in reading subtle human behavior, things _so subtle,_ nobody even knew that they were doing it! That one independent examiner that tested Hans? He later realized that he was leaning forward or backward depending on how well Hans was doing … and Hans _adjusted his behavior accordingly!_
Another thing you need to beware of is Selection Bias. We humans are _excellent_ at ignoring things that don't fit a pattern we believe we're seeing. The Full Moon is the archetype-example for this: people notice things when they happen on or near the Full Moon, because the Full Moon is so _damned bright._ But, when the same "unusual" events happen on a New-Moon, nobody notices. And Full Moon days that are quiet get ignored - nothing memorable is happening on them, after all!
Now, that doesn't mean your trained dog isn't helping you. But I think you're overrating the dog and underrating your own intelligence and intuition. Your dog is likely jarring you loose from distraction or clearing off the cobwebs with its button-pushing, as your own brain ignores irrelevant button-pushes.
I repeat what I said in my own comment on this video: Scientific Studies attempt to *_DISPROVE_* what we think we're seeing. And scientific studies of animals are _always_ examining the question, "Are we humans projecting onto these animals?"
@@theriverschool822"how can my talking dog get me rich" mate it doesn't even have to be able to talk to get you rich, Bunny, the dog from the video has been faked to look like it can talk and Bunny's owner is now insanely wealthy lmao tf are you on about
another well thought out video, i have come to trust your word - for a long time. it is good to get a reality check perspective on these things... the things people put animals through for clicks is disheartening, you make me feel less alone in my thoughts about so many things, on top of learning so much from you. i admit ive seen dogs looking in mirror pictures before, and people trying to tell us they see themselves, when they are clearly looking at the owner/photographer. "humanity" gives me too much eyerolls nowadays! 😄
I do believe animals can communicate to a certain extent with the buttons - but the existential crisis was bananas. The other day I saw a video of people who decided to get their cat put down because it was yowling/not eating/ showing signs of discomfort and the vet didn't find anything in the bloodwork, and they figured this was her way of saying "goodbye." and that was enough internet for me for one day.
My dog communicates with me every day without buttons. I love the fact that my dog can tell me all the things without 'talking'. She is supper smart and gets all her needs met with out a single word.
I wholeheartedly agree with your analogy, KP! Thank you for another great video 👏🏼
To me it sounded like there was only sound coming from the "this" button and no sound coming from the "who" button. When the human pushes the"who" button I didn't hear anything until she pushed the "this" button. But the dog only pushed the "this" button and we (or I) heard "who this". And the mirror(that looks like it hangs on the wall) just happens to be on the floor next to the buttons the dog is playing with.
When you watch the entire video you are told the mirror was there to test if Bunny would react.
@cathwilki3540 it was there to tell a fun story for social media
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How can you possibly believe this about the mirror? You are why this person is becoming famous and is encouraged to continue to lie. It’s absolute nonsense!
Yeah, cleeearly faked. 👍🏼 They edited the audio -you caught Bunny only pressing 1 button. Gross on Bunny’s owner’s part. 🤬👎🏼
Im glad i cam across these videos and your channel. People tend to just beleave things they see online. I had to talk my mom out of getting the buttons.. i think i should send her these videos.
toujours au top tes videos :) merci!!
They can learn words, and as long as you don’t move the buttons around they could learn certain words. I am a licensed Veterinary technician nurse, I have a door knob bell like store owner put above their doors to ring when the door is pushed open. I put it low by their legs, and say go potty, and use their leg to to ring it. My big dog leaned quicker because she would scratch the door, and a rang let her out. My medium dog learned quick. My small dog took 3 years for it to click, ring the bell I notice and then let him out. lol.
But people who think dogs are having conversations is ridiculous. They can learn words for certain items, so yes they could learn a button but not sentences, it took my medium size dog a short while to learn between llama and Momma and then my husband would say go get momma, or llama. Etc. it’s the same as people who put a video of a dog with a reverse sneeze and say the dog is crying. Dogs don’t cry. They mourn they have depression but they don’t cry. ❤
I have 11 buttons for my dog. I move them around all the time, just to prove that she knows the words, and she knows what she is wanting to communicate every time.
Sometimes she will just make observations like “daddy outside” if my husband is outside, she knows yes and no and later. Sometimes she will ask me to go outside later, if I’m busy, if I say no to a treat, sometimes she will rebuke my “no” with hitting the “yes” a few times, and she’s persistent.
My dog is a chihuahua/schnauzer mix, and she is one of the smartest small breeds I’ve ever seen. I’m actually amazed. It took her 4 days to start using the buttons by herself. I started with 4 simple words, and grew from there. She loves them.
From what I can observe, she’s capable and interested in somewhat more complex sentence structure than most people think. The most words she has put together herself were like this, “(dogs name) want - play - outside - mommy - later -yes “, and I find that remarkable for a little dog like her.
I’d suggest giving your animals more options and see how they respond. I just put them out there and started using the words and saying them in sentences, and she caught on.
To me, "who this?" Seems a strange sentence from a dog. I think it would've been a little more convincing if it was just "look".
Thank you so much for this video, I was skeptical of it but I was worried when i saw some people talking about how the dog became self aware and that led to him being depressed and stuff, it made me so sad even though I didn’t believe it, now I’m glad I found your video.
Thank you for this! This stuff is fascinating and I have tons of "talking pet" videos from various folks saved on Facebook which I've been meaning to sift through myself. Always good to see more information and to learn more, especially regarding the background of the company and the research. I've found it a bit awkward how the FluentPet buttons are always pushed as product first, though I'm aware there are other brands of buttons and am even in a group for people who use buttons of various sorts for their pets (and beyond cats and dogs to rabbits, guinea pigs, and even horses).
Been wanting to go through it all and scrutinize for myself.
Also, exciting to hear from a marine biologist! Was my original career dream (though my interests were with dolphins and sharks more than anything else)
Awesome video, KP - bringing the science back into the discussion. I love the balance from debunking the sensationalist interpretation with substituting a better-reasoned, and yet still fascinating, interpretation.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for substantiating what i saw with my own eyes with your professional background and life experience.
One of my dogs., would jiggle the loose door knob when he wanted or needed to go outside. Then I lived in a house without a loose door knob, so I would take his paw and hit the springy doorstop when he wanted outside -- he caught on fairly quickly. When I got a second dog, I installed a small bell on the other side of the door in the hopes that one would use it to signal when that one wanted to go outside -- it's been a year, and the second one just barks at me when he needs to go outside. Conditioning, plain and simple -- the first dog is conditioned to hit the doorstop when he wants out; the second dog conditioned me to let it out when it barks at me.
Thank you for your actual proofs the buttons were manipulated. I had seen a few of the videos and wasn't sure what to make of them, just thinking a well-trained dog.
She is a very well trained dog. She's absolutely been trained to press the buttons in exchange for a reward like going outside, attention, and even affection. But what she's been trained to do is different than what the videos claim is happening.
I was reminded of my current cat and a cat I had years ago. I have had more than these 2. These 2, though, were the only ones who used / use mirrors to advantage. The first one used the mirror to sneak up on the other cat in the household (who didn't understand the mirror). My current cat is just puzzled why my duplicate has no smell or sound. Thank you so much for this. I had wondered about the loooong pauses that were sped up.
Loved the video KP! Even with proof some people will never accept it. However, you made me laugh with your “ skeptical science look” which you have used over the years!!! 😂😂
i appreciate your videos because they make sense!
The 1 I can say struck me is the 1 where the cat is pressing daddy daddy where is daddy where is daddy where is daddy mad mad where is daddy over and over again So happen that daddy Was away on a trip where they would be gone for a couple weeks it got to the point Where the catsMommy Female owner Had to literally phone The daddy Put him on speaker phone So the cat wasn't worried about him It makes sense that an animal maybe worried about it's owner if they don't see them for a day or 2 they may think oh they've got hunting and we're killed and we're trapped and can't make their way back Which I understand cats are not pk animals but they can learn to love their owners and worry about them Either way that cat was determined to see their daddy she wasn't giving any treats or anything she was kind of offended Mommy wasn't enough at the time but was joking about it
The one button versus two is all I needed. I don't have any need to suspend reality about this.
Thank you, that was a very good report video. Learn something new every day! 🐕
Thank you for doing this!
It's crazy how much of this is the same pattern we saw when people were trying to push chimpanzee and gorillas being able to communicate with sign language - it always turns out to be the handler wildly reading waaaay to much into their animals behavior or like in this case just plainly fabricating the information. I remember watching a video where a parrot was naming colors and at some point it asked "what color am I?" and at first I was really impressed because it seemed like it was self-aware before it occurred to me that it was probably repeating a question it's heard many times, it was literally parroting language.
This is next up on my videos list! Stay tuned
Dogs learn patterns - cause & effect, which is how dogs know what emotional buttons like 'sad' mean... they know using sad, they'll get extra attention/afffection. Sure, that may be what they want when they feel sad, but that doesn't necessarily mean they ARE sad... so glad you did this video!!
Anyone with a psychology degree (or education degree - considering I have both) will know exactly what you mean by the mirror test
Thank you for this !
Thanks for watching!
Great point about SELF AWARENESS TESTS.
Love this!!
Great video. I hate how much information and access people have in today’s day and age and yet are so quick to believe something with pretty obvious indicators of manipulation and manufacturing of lies for personal gain. You did a great service here.
You are right, the talking dog is too curated. It is not a scientific experiment, it is more content for people who like that dogs maybe could speak 🐶
The scientists who did the mirror test with the dog must have not done a very good job because when my dog Moti turned 1 year old I made her a birthday hat. At first she didn't think much of it until we went to the mirror to look at it. As soon as she saw herself she immediately reached up with paw and knocked the hat off her head. Before the mirror she barely could tell it was one her head. If she could not recognize herself in the mirror then how do you explain her strong reaction.
On top of that, I had gotten Moti the speech buttons when she was a puppy and since then she has been able to communicate in much more of a complex manner than I thought would happen. For example here is a comment from another post that I made:
" No, it's not just a hit a button and get a reward type exchange. Although that does happen of course, it's much more than that. For example, after Moti, my dog, ate her meal I pressed the button HUNGRY and then GOOD and then the ? button. Some context for you: HUNGRY typically applies to anything food related so I was asking her "Was the food I just made good?". Moti's usual response to that question is either YES or GOOD or MORE. This time her response was HELP. When she pressed the HELP button I was very perplexed and confused so I responded by pressing HELP MOTI ?. She did not reply back and my slow brain was just staring at her while she started to scratch herself with her paw, wondering what on earth would she want help with. Then it came to me...duh, maybe she needs help with scratching. I didn't have a button for scratch so I verbally said MOTI DO YOU NEED HELP WITH SCRATCHES and then I pressed the ? button. She stopped scratching herself and walked over to the buttons and pressed YES. So I gave her a bunch of scratches all over her neck where I saw her scratching at. Then I pressed MORE HELP and ?. She walked over and pressed the NO button.
So that whole conversation was just that, a conversation...and not a Pavlov situation. On top of that she ended the conversation with NO in which she gets nothing when she hits that button. She could have hit several other buttons in which she know that she might get something like treat, play, snuggles, etc but she chose to press NO because it applied to the topic and specific question.
Dogs are highly intelligent and understand us much better than we understand them. It is because of our narrow understanding of them that limits our ability to see that. It's our own ignorance and judgement that holds us back from seeing their and other animals sentience and ability to communicate with us. "
Thank you, KP. I always learn something from you. Here, you reminded me of the importance of critical thinking, and how much we need to practice it to be able to do it when we need to, and how dependent that is on our familiarity with studying science. Every art and science requires practice: time spent in that particular way of thought and action. The more science we study and put into action, the easier that way of critical thinking will come to us. This is the reason musicians listen to music and practice their scales, why boxers work with the bag, and why runners jog.
From watching the video, there's also the chance that all the buttons have the same sound in them. It certainly looks like the one button Bunny presses says "who this", and the lady then only presses one button and the sound plays "who this"(same soundclip) before the second one is even pressed. That being said:
Even IF we give all the benefit of doubt to this, and say bunny pressed "who this" and looked in the mirror, then that should be repeatable, or any of her behaviour should be. Even 3 buttons could prove this by repetition.
Try Todd Talks. This is for a cat named Todd. They have 2 other cats, but the other cats aren't interested in the buttons. They usually do an extensive loop (sped up when nothing is happening) with very little editing. I say "they," but it's actually the man who interacts on camera with the cats.
Honestly, and no offense, but I'm done with this fad.
@KPassionate Up to you, of course. It was just a suggestion from someone with a degree in Psych with a minor in biology, me. I will point out that if dogs can be trained to ring a bell to go out to potty, no reason they can't be trained to use a button that says the word potty instead. If they get excited and drool at the word food or din-din, they might know the word well enough to push a button that says din-din to make a request. Potty is a request. Can they make sentences? I guess we're finding out.
@@snowrose101 that is simple word association and is unrelated to the ability to string words together in sentences. Sorry
Bunny steps onto the buttons too randomly, hardly looking at them. Which gives me the impression she is just pressing any button to gain attention from her owner. Plus, Bunny wasn't filmed all day long where we get to see her attempts when she produced gibberish. There was a real scientific study where they taught horses to point their nose at two diferent signs when they either were cold and wanted a blanket to be put on or the blanket to be removed because they were too warm.
They can absolutely link a word with an immediate action/consequence (e.g. dogs flipping out when someone says "walk" or "food", because their owners have used those words clearly and extensively when walking and feeding them) but anyone who believes canines are even slightly capable of understanding the meanings of "who" or "this" is... just kind of a rube, really. Both of those words are high-context words that are even kind of difficult to explain to another person.
Also intonation and body language is a huge factor. If you went up to your dog, looked it in it's eyes, and very slowly said 'would you like to go for a walk' in a monotone voice, I'd be surprised if it had the same reaction.
Thank you for your video 🙏🏻
I had been thinking of buying the buttons for my cats, but you know how you get that back of the back of the neck feeling that something is not adding up. This was happening with me, so I started watching move videos on the buttons.
I still could not work out what it was that had been bothering me. Until now that is, that’s when things fell into place about the videos I had watched. I’m glad I held off from buying the buttons now.
I think I will do what so many others who I have been following for years and just buy a ring bell. They taught their cats to ring the bell twice if they are hungry and so far the cats have been ringing the bell close to the time when she normally feeds the cats. Between them both they worked out a better feeding routine that works, they have stopped ringing the bell simply because she changed the time she feeds each of her cats.
Thank you for going over the video and highlight what it was I had been missing. They are so subtle it was easy to miss, once I knew what it was I was looking for, it made a huge difference on the reality of the video.
The bell can be a very useful tool! Also recommend Karen Pryors books on pet behavior.
The channel BilliSpeaks is about a cat who uses buttons is run by Billi's mom who is a licensed veterinarian. Billi has a chronic health problem and has been able to tell her when she is in pain and needs medicine. There is nothing esoteric about her channel, just basic communication about what I previously mentioned, and which toys Billi wants to play with, the desire to go outside, wanting food puzzles, pets, cuddles, etc. which seems useful and very bonding.
I have watched quite a few of these dog button videos. When,I noticed that these dogs seemed to have a larger vocabulary than there were buttons,I realized the words were being added. Coco the gorilla is a different story. She could sign and have conversations in simple sentences. She was an amazing animal.
Unfortunately I just did a video on the Koko gorilla situation. You may not want to watch it lol. She was not legitimately speaking
Bunny doesn't even press the "this" button, but the one next to it, it looks like.
I typically avoid commenting, but in this instance, I believe it merits an exception. The evolution in this trio of videos is evident. The first struck me as overly sensationalist, sparking my skepticism. The second felt more realistic, but it's the third that truly lays the groundwork for effective science communication. I appreciate the inclusion of research references, the honest portrayal of the stance of behavioral scientists in acknowledging the limitations and scope of their studies, and, most importantly, the emphasis on protecting institutions dedicated to scientific inquiry. Nice!
Thanks!
I'm glad you are calling her BS out.
My Catahoula that I lost in June of last year would use mirrors to watch me. She would lay where she could see me if I moved around the house. When I would go into one bathroom she would sit up in her spot and I could see her watching me in the mirror. The other bathroom she could see me from her spot on the bed or she would just lay in the bathroom. As smart as she was to use the mirrors to keep an eye on me she was trained to “find me” anyway she could. She would go play on the beach or fields and I would see her look for me and then go back to playing. Maybe she thought I was just in the mirror 🤷🏻♀️ who knows. It was still a cool party trick when we had friends over 😂
I was briefly associated with a miniature American Eskimo. She happened to be out for a ride with me one day, and I’d left her in the car to go do something. I returned to the car from behind, and as I approached I could see her sitting in the driver’s seat, relaxed, looking around, and then she caught my reflection in the side mirror. Her mouth snapped shut, her ears came to full alert, and she stared at the reflection for a moment, then whipped her head around and looked at me walking up towards the car, and then back at the reflection. You could practically see the gears stripping out in her little brain. One of the funniest things I’ve seen in my life.
I've probably only spent 1 year total of my 65 years without the company of at least one dog. Made a career in pet care. Instead of trying to get them to use my language, I learned theirs. I've always said, it's not what you can teach a dog that impresses me, it's what you've learned from them. I have to go, Molly is ready for more sunshine time.
Apparently every pet owner is a language AND cognition expert.
My dog is super smart, he understands a lot of words like "where?" "Meat" certain toys, "sleep" "garden" he also knows how to identify certain toys by name, etc. I never need much training for that, but I have realized that he also understands concepts through my body movements when training him to give his paw, lie down etc. When he wants to go to the garden he barks at me one way, and it moves a certain way when he wants to go to the bathroom another, when he wants me to see he made his bathroom buisness where he should, he calls me and takes me to the place, when he wants to show me that he poop in a place that shouldn't, because of a tantrum he approaches me and rubs his paws against the floor, When we play with my 2 year old niece out of jealousy he wants to learn how the toys are used (toys that hammer things and stuff like that), he cries anxiously watching and scratching the toys, never learned to use use them thought, and I am not going to make a huge effort to teach him because I think a) They don't need it, b) they are not going to learn it. xD when he listens to us when we sing the mañanitas he haull and barks IMITATING US. As a puppy he growled in frustration when he tried to stand and his legs opened. All of this is to say that I am sure of 4 things.
1 I stole from him a UA-cam or tiktok Carrier now that he is 13.
2 I am never going to have an other pet that is this smart.
3 chihuahuas and sausage dogs are not the stupid dogs people think they are.(it's a mix of the two)
4...I won't teach him to use those buttons, it is not necessary, he do not need them to make himselve understood, and he do not need to pretend to have a human language deep understanding(which he will never have despite understand human words in their most superficial form as the prelude to a consequence) to communicate or make known he is super smart.
Animals don't need a deep understanding of human language and concepts to be smart, They do not need to make sentences, with nouns, verbs and predicates. Humans are too egotistical, a thing that animals cannot ever be.
They can understand single word sounds as the antecedent of the consequence of something, and that, although it is not necessary, is a sufficient luxury as long as it is something that the animal wants to do. The truth is, my very intelligent dog that I think I abused showing off in my comment xD, has never had to have much training even to learn that. He is just very observant...
(Note )My dog as a puppy one time did act very excited, turning around and looking at himself in a mirror, running from one side to the other and stopping to look at himself. I don't know if he thought it was another dog that one time or He had a fleeting idea of "I", haha
For all the people who are saddened to hear that your dog will never have a conversation with you with actual dialogue. It's okay. Dogs speak with body language, which is actually the backbone on the vast majority of human communications as well. If you can get along with your dog using body language, you are already speaking their language. And that's pretty cool.
Thank you! I do have a neighborhood cat that rings my door bell when it wants food.... can I get a research grant too? LOL
I actually think bells are a great tool. Especially as an alternative for dogs who like to scratch at a door when they want to go outside.
Hahah, I used to feed a cat that would jump to my window and meow each morning at 6:30 to wake me up 😅
I want you to review ones without cuts and are sped up to make sure no cuts are shown
The mirror video had no cuts and you can clearly see Bunny didn't press the buttons that correspond to the audio we heard.
My cats ignore mirrors and often refuse t look at them. One of my cats was sitting in front of one when we made eye contact in the mirror and he saw I woke up and turned around right away to interact. He' just used the reflection to notice something, he doesn't care if it's him or not in the mirror because he doesn't get anything from that. It's lik a tv to them, they don't care.
I don't believe any of the talking button animals unless I can see the words on or next to the buttons. If they were live-streamed they would be more believable.
I have watched bunny's video's and I have seen the dog use the same buttons all the time ! After a few video's I knew that it was B.S and I didn't watch the video's anymore. I knew I wasn't the only one who saw the B.S. Thank you for doing this video !
Thank you for using your platform to bring some critical thinking and scientific method into this fad! The mirror video being fake should instantly disqualify Bunny from the research. Who knows what else is being faked and not made public?
I did get my dog buttons, just 4. My boy is sweet, adorable and playful, but not so gifted with smarts. If he wants something, he just sits. I am hoping he will learn to let me know he has to go out, or wants a treat or wants to play, but I'm not holding my breath....I love him no matter what!
I think a button for outside or potty is a great use of these buttons. I've also seen people use a bell that works just as well. I'm sure your boy is wonderful! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
Thank you for the video, its great to see critical thinkers on the internet making content to TRY and stop disinformation..
And by saying “try” I meant in general, because there is so much disinformation online and our news/media
I've been training my goldendoodle, with very little effort, how to use buttons for the past week and she already knows 4 words and how to use them. They've been training bunny with these buttons since she was 8 weeks old. It's legit
also the buttons are very small and she could easily push two of them with one paw
It isn’t. Sorry. You are projecting things onto your dog that are not real.
@@KPassionate lol ok. Sure, it's a stretch that Bunny was actually asking "who is this", but dogs can absolutely understand certain words and their meanings, and communicate in a way once they've learned the location and sound of the buttons
If she did press two at the same time (she didn't, as you can plainly see) then why didn't we hear the words at the same time? Even if she did, then that would have been a mistake and should have been discarded. I strongly suggest looking at the resources and links I provided in the descriptions. Dogs communicate with us through a variety of different means. These buttons are literally putting words into their mouths and there is zero evidence that the dogs are correctly associating these words with their meanings.
@@KPassionate U R JEALOUS OF A DOG
Nailed it!
I think when people say you have never had a dog they probably meant you never had a dog like theirs. We have a lot of dogs in our extended family but only one of them is an excellent communicator. Toby, a Chorkie, is my dog. Human infants learn that their communications either do or do not cause their needs to be met. A baby whose crying is ignored, doesn't cry to get their needs met. I believe my dog learned early on that if he keeps trying, I will eventually understand and his needs will be met and possibly his desires as well. The other family members don't pay half as much attention to their dogs as I do to mine and all of them are typical dogs. My dog, we had this game where he would drop a toy off the back of my office chair and I would ask, "where is it?" He would keep prodding me to find it and I would say,"I don't know! Where is it?" Thousands of times. One day I asked him where is it and he says,"I don't know" in the exact tone of voice I use. He was mimicking me like a bird would. (He has also said,"No." ) Usually I have zero proof when he does things like this but that time my grown daughter heard him say it. But he does understand from repetition. Another time, I bought him a self-filling water bowl and the gurgle scared him so he didn't want to use it. He got my attention and showed me where the water bowl was and wagged his tail. I said, "Water. Good boy." He laid down for about a minute and chewed his bone and then he got my attention again and laid down by his bowls as he must when I fill his bowls. He has to lie down and wait for me to finish and say,"Okay." before he can get up and approach the bowls. But also, before the self-filling bowl, he had a tiny bowl (he's a tiny dog) and I would have to fill it about 10 times a day and when I fed him, I always filled his water bowl too. Another thing to note, I feed him when he asks for it because some days he is hungrier and some days less and he will not overeat unless it involves cheese. Anyway, so he laid down by his bowls, perks his ears (which is always asking a question), wags his tail and waits for me to fill his bowls. I put a scoop of food in the bowl, sit down and say,"Okay." He gets up, sniffs the food, looks at me with his ears perked again, sniffs the water and then looks me in the eye again. I point at the new bowl and say "Water. Good boy." So he laid down and chewed his bone for about 2 minutes this time and then gets my attention. This time he shows me the bathroom sink and licks his lips. I pointed to the new bowl and said, "Water. It won't hurt you, try it." So he laid down with his bone for another couple minutes and then shows me my water bottle. This helps the stupid-feeling human because I get an idea. I know he prefers bottled water to tap water and I also know that even if he didn't, he respects me and so he will eat or drink whatever I do even if he hates it. SO, I take my water bottle and begin pouring it into the new self-filling bowl and he drinks from the water as it flows out but when it's all in his bowl, he went ahead and drank from the new bowl and got a lot of praise. The next time he needed water (self-filling bowl was empty), he dropped a half-full water bottle into my lap. I have dozens of situations with my dog where you can tell he understands quite a few things that I say and he communicates back. He's super creative and super smart. Mirrors make him uncomfortable though. He doesn't recognize himself. However, he doesn't like to be called a dog. It's fine that other dogs are dogs, including my daughter's dog, Apricot, who lives in the same house. But once I realized how angry he got when anyone referred to him as a dog, I told him that people don't poop on the sidewalk, dogs do (in a normal tone of voice), and he pooped in my living room for two days. I understand that people will think that we must use "dog" negatively and probably with a negative tone of voice but we don't. He wants to be a people and not different from me. My dog also doesn't drag his behind across the floor, he shows me his butt and I wipe it with a baby wipe. He rarely barks but he has tons of vocalizations. My daughter wants me to teach him to talk using the buttons but I figured we don't need buttons since he's really good at getting his point across. However, yesterday he tried to trade my son his current favorite toy for some popcorn and now I am curious how much popcorn he feels like his toy is worth. I can figure out on my own with him whether that new brand of popcorn holds more value than a hot dog or some cheese but the trading aspect has me curious.
The only dog that can talk is the "hell naw" one.
If the dog was actually self aware and knew what it was saying it would've been able to type on a keyboard too. It doesn't understand language, it just presses the buttons they know will result in certain actions / behaviors.
I love videos like this. I'm a open minded skeptic myself. I like to view all perspectives before coming to a conclusion ❤
Totally agree with you; never was convinced by those buttons except it’s nice doggy toys but there are simpler and more enjoyable way to play and spend time with you’re pet dog. It’s really too much for Poor Bunny..
The greatest truth about all of this is that Bunny is not having a crisis
thanks for the content, KP! I have an amazing pibble, and i can say this is nonsense! anyhow, i have a request, i'm terribly sorry its not related to this video, but i don't know how to ask besides video comments. I recently heard about the pod of orcas perishing from being stranded in arctic flow ice. it's heartbreaking! could you please weigh in on this?
Thanks for the question! It sounds like they recently escaped and are currently free from the sea ice!
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Animals have their own methods of communicating with us, if we just pay attention. My cats, one male, one female, littermates, go to the front door when they want to come in because I have Alexa announce when someone or something is there and they know I'll go and check and let them in. If they're in the catio at night they will either jump on the walkway adjacent to the outside, so it turns on and I can see them, or they bang the magnets of the fly screens on the back door of whichever room they think I'm in so I can hear them. They have other ways of communicating with me indoors, which include jumping on my desk to tell me they want something - usually a cuddle (my girl also stands with her tail towards me and looks over her shoulder at me if she wants me to pick her up from the floor, tapping my arm (or my shoulder on a couple of occasions which, because I was otherwise alone, really freaked me out the first time - my boy is tall and that's how I discovered just how high he could reach!). In most cases I ask "Show me" and they will take me where they want me to go. Sometimes that's their food bowl, or it might be to the bathroom so I can "dry" my girl with her towel while she cleans her teeth. All these things are self-taught, or things they've taught each other, and are done because it brings them the results they want. I'd love to be able to communicate (communicat?) with them properly, but I don't think that breakthrough will come in my lifetime.
Bunnies owner put the mirror there to see what bunnie would do. It didn’t just happen to be there.
That's what tipped me off and why I gave the video a very close look. I hope you watched more than just the intro of my video.
My red flag has always been that early on the buttons were color coded with words on them. Dogs cant read and see only limited colors so she could have been remembering position. Then the "promoted" buttons came into play, obvious money grab, but they also have very small words or symbols on them which she never really seems to look for. She presses without looking most of the time. So along the lines of remembering position... the button layouts seem to change constantly. Hardly ever the same video to video so remembering position is almost impossible with the constant change. So it can only be random pressing and owner coming up with her own interpretation that fits her narrative or content she is trying to create.
It's almost like the product was designed for social media fakers to make it viral, and the company is not responsible for such false advertising.
My former roommates dog saw his reflection in my small beauty mirror and thought it was another dog. Everytime the mirror was out he would try to look at it
It was like a 10 minute video and she was not giving the cat a treatReward for doing it She was just saying daddy will be back later
I've owned dogs all my life and I'm pretty old. I've been talking to my dogs since forever without buttons and eventually they understand the sound of the words and make connections. So glad you did this video and the first. Bunny is cute but her mom 🙄
I refuse to call myself a dog trainer because of how little I know but I have trained service dogs in the past and I can say that most people don't understand dog behavior. even people with dogs will tell me how much thier do loves something while the dog is actively displaying how much they hate that thing. my favorite story thogh was the woman who told me her doberman pincher hated men and was supper agressive. it got off leash while I was working with my dog and the doberman's owner freaked out that it was going to attack me. it sat at my feet and I gave it a treat and that dogs owner was stunned her dog wasn't a ruthless killer. the teacher of the class almost peed herself laughing though
I think the animals can communicate with the buttons, but only because they know that pushing “this” button will get me water. As far as the complex communication like telling mom they want to go to Suzy’s house tomorrow isn’t happening. I always feel like the person is telling me what to interpret. If they are really speaking English I shouldn’t need an interpreter.
That said, the cat ones must be true, except they are the ones button training us. It is known that they are evil overlords who are scheming to take over the world.
I trained my dog to "talk" with a sign for "yes" and "no". Theres a handful, maybe 30 or so words he knows and from there I can ask what is bothering him. Its not "talking", he just knows these words are related to different objects and actions and he knows "yes" will get him the thing most of the time.
No one can prove or debunk this really. Each person must form their own opinion.
Did you not see the part where Bunny only presses one button even though the video claims she pressed two?
Opinions should be based on evidence.
Talking pets and hurt pets are a go to for people wanting to make money on the internet. Because most people consume rather than watch critically it’s gonna be that way for a long time to come. Once you realize you are being conned it’s no fun anymore. I have opinions about people not waking up to the obvious but I’m not sure I’m right in havingthese opinions. What I am sure about is nothing is ever as black and white as it looked when I was 22.
I got sketched out by Bunny when I learned her family had an outdoor cat that disappeared. How can you have so much empathy with a “communicating dog”, but not know that outdoor lifestyles for cats are horrible for the environment, and for the cat. Sus.
Ah yes, because feral cats don't exist, or wild cats for that matter 🤦🏻♀️ and aren't humans the more realistic threat to the environment, by cutting down more and more green just to build streets/houses/cities - the decline of song birds is due to human interference f.e. the Italians catching them with huge nets for consumption, when they fly back to Europe at the end of winter
Outdoor domestic cats are by far the leading threat to birds and it's not even close. In the US alone, domestic cats kill approximately 2.4 BILLION birds every year.
[1] www.fws.gov/library/collections/threats-birds
[2] www.sibleyguides.com/conservation/causes-of-bird-mortality
This doesn't address the other point the original commenter made that the outdoor cat was lost.
@@lilithiaabendstern6303 some places have wild cats, they belong there, and the environment supports them being there ( nature, not humans). Feral cats are cats that do not belong in the area they live, and nature has not adapted to them being there, hence they do a lot of damage to wildlife. Not only do they take small birds, but animals up to rabbit and duck size are on their menu.
@@Goldenhawk583 just because a cat was born to a feral cat in a place doesn't mean it belongs there (unless it is a native species). Feral cats die quite young from horrible things.
@@tanyabrown9839 you think I mean that wild cats are kittens after feral cats? No I do not mean that. Feral cats get feral kittens, they dont suddenly belong in the ecossystem in less than one year. thats not how evolution works.
No I mean real wild cats, like the Pallas caT, or the Ocelot, native spicies as you call them.. why would you think I meant feral cats?
My dog is 100% aware of herself in the mirror. She watches my reflection and pretends not to be watching me. What’s a good research group I can explore having her studied? 🤔
I just started my dog on the buttons a few weeks ago. He definitely understands simple words such as play and outside. The best way to judge if this works would be doing it on your own with a dog or cat or watch someone demonstrate this in Person. I don’t think it’s fair to analyze whether a technique works or not based on watching a few videos and researching the concept. Educate yourself 😊
Sorry. It is all a scam.
One thing I will agree with you on is that I don’t know if Bunny can use all the words that her owner believes. But there are thousands of UA-cam videos demonstrating the authenticity of the buttons and I’m seeing it working with my own dog. 😊
@Camilou2 simple word associations is one thing. Stringing multiple words together is not possible. And it is far more effective to just learn how to understand your dog rather than try to force them to become human. I recommend Karen Pryor’s “Don’t shoot the dog"
Excellent series on the “talking dog” nonsense. I figure it’s people who are remarkably ignorant of the Dog World view. Re: mirrors, my dog and my cat have both been outside and purposely showed up reflected in our bathroom mirror when I’m at the sink (with my side and back to the windows) - they are pointedly looking at my face in the mirror (they want me to let them in). That impresses me!
I watched this bc I too caught onto the mismatch in the buttons
Oh yeah? Did you notice it in the same video or in a different one?