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Animals communicate with us constantly. But do we really need expensive buttons on our floors to tell us they want to play? I'm here to tell you to take a closer look at these videos of Bunny the Dog talking when you see them and think critically about the information presented.

00:00 Bunny the Dog Talking
00:35 Bunny the Dog Reaction
02:30 Confirmation Bias
03:57 Can Dogs Understand Humans
04:41 Do Pet Buttons Work?
06:15 Teaching Your Dog to Go Outside
07:30 Can Dogs Understand English
08:41 Is Bunny the Dog Really Talking?
10:30 How Do Dogs Communicate?
11:24 KPassionate

Many have suggested that I need to watch more videos. So I did. Specifically, I watched the "ouch stranger paw" video →    • Do Pet Buttons Work? The Science Behi...  
And the video where Bunny looks in a mirror →    • The Truth About the Self Aware Dog Ta...  

Study after study has shown that visual, tactile, and olfactory communication is far more important to a dog than verbal communication.
[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27338...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

There have also been studies using EEGs and MRIs to measure brain activity in dogs when they hear human words. These studies found that dogs do not have the ability to distinguish different words AND that almost 50% of what they respond to when they hear a human speak is their emotion and tone of voice.
[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
[2] https://www.livescience.com/dogsword...
[3] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
[4]https://www.rspca.org.uk//blog_how_d...
[5] https://phys.org/news/202012dogswo...

Dogs do not recognize themselves in mirrors, but that doesn't mean how they react isn't important.
[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...

Learn more about animal training with these videos!
[1] Debunking Alpha Dog Training
→    • Biologists Debunk Alpha Dogs: Is Your...  
[2] How and Why Zoos and Aquariums Train Their Animals
→    • Marine Biologist Answers Hard Questio...  
[3] Secrets of the Navy's Classified Dolphin Program
→    • Secrets of the Classified Navy Dolphi...  

I am far from the only scientist to urge caution when watching these videos Bunny the Dog talking or of animals using Fluent Pet buttons in general. A fluent pet review in a leading magazine on neuroscience, psychology, and deep learning said:
“Some wellknown research biases that are normally carefully avoided in formal scientific studies are not controlled for in these videos. In particular, the ‘meaning’ of ‘sentences’ produced by the dogs is often reconstructed by the owners themselves… and what is interpreted often seems to be… whatever the owner wants it to be.” Neuroscience News https://neurosciencenews.com/animalc...

For example. Bunny steps on the word HELP. Bunny's owner reconstructs the sentence “More now happy help” to mean she wants help being more happy than she was previously. How do we know Bunny wasn't asking how SHE could help her owner be more happy? What empirical evidence do we have that this is what Bunny was trying to communicate? It is my observation that What About Bunny has been trained to step on buttons in order to elicit a response from her human and she is doing so at random.

Instead of spending your money on these expensive talking dog buttons by Fluent Pet, I encourage you to learn more about dog behavior and operant conditioning! I promise that will lead to a happier and healthier relationship with your dog.

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