When she corrected you with "outside" my mind was blown.

@HaldaneSmith

3 жыл бұрын

Bunny probably just meant she wanted to go outside. Head slap.

@joshorton9061

3 жыл бұрын

I would describe someone else's house as "very outside"

@bluestrangler0447

3 жыл бұрын

True, because the house is outside the outside that you define as outside making it more outside than outside could ever be.

@TheBookgeek7

3 жыл бұрын

@@bluestrangler0447 lol😂

@sm-yj7nu

3 жыл бұрын

She looked around when mom said home...

I can’t get enough of Bunny figuring out how to say things ‘correctly’. 💜

@Loopy_lollipop

3 жыл бұрын

One twopicy

@jenniferhart559

3 жыл бұрын

Wholesome content ☺️

@saishuu.u5717

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Is very surprising. I think she is very cute I said this right? Im non native Edit: changed suprensingly for surpising

@cyan7460

3 жыл бұрын

@@saishuu.u5717 *Surprising. Your English is good!

@saishuu.u5717

3 жыл бұрын

@@cyan7460 Thank you!

I love whenever Bunny takes her little run around the table to get a good angle of attack on the buttons.

@LinneaAnn01

3 жыл бұрын

Her thinking circles are so cute

@setaripantheon8801

3 жыл бұрын

Got to make this sentence count! One lap around the table and then I tell mom!

@sm-yj7nu

3 жыл бұрын

I wondered why she does that?

@setaripantheon8801

3 жыл бұрын

@@sm-yj7nu that is her thinking time to structure the sentence and recall the buttons placement. It would be the equivalent of solving a x^4+x^3-1=0 equation for us by walking around a table...

I love those pauses before she answers a question, she's like an old PC that takes a minute to register a command

@bcgrote

3 жыл бұрын

You can almost see the wheels turning! She's an amazing pup!

@MarieLouiseK90

3 жыл бұрын

She also has to remember where the buttons are.....she can't read dude. Each time she "speaks" she first registers the information heard audibly and translates it, then she figures out how to answer it and then she has to remember where the heck all those buttons are by memory alone and she CAN'T read. She is doing so much more than anyone ever expected from dogs let alone any animal. This is a game changer in how we will interact with animals forever and how we view sentience.

@anti-ethniccleansing465

3 жыл бұрын

@John Tangi I read elsewhere in comments that they spayed her.

@fomorians

3 жыл бұрын

Great analogy :D

@moneybags999

3 жыл бұрын

She has to translate from dog into human which takes a few minutes. Lol

She says 'Yes, go, play' so fast, like she's dancing on the buttons. So smart! It would take me longer to find those buttons

@wizardsuth

3 жыл бұрын

To type your message you probably picked out sequences of two to seven letters from a keyboard containing over a hundred keys. The words you chose are from a vocabulary of perhaps 20,000 of the most common words. I doubt many dogs could manage that.

@annother3350

Жыл бұрын

@@wizardsuth Bunny was touch typing though

Maybe you could say "away" for where Selena is and others that Bunny is wondering about who are not there. Away would always be somewhere that is "not home".

@kecinakim8974

3 жыл бұрын

Right, this way when Dad leaves the house they can also use Away to explain where he is

@ShoulderMonster

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that sounds good. Saying Outside might imply right outside the house, which isn't quite right.

@Ellen-pn5ob

3 жыл бұрын

then Bunny might imagine Away as where all of Bunny's friends and dad hang out. 😆 "why is dad with my friends and not me?"

@Ellen-pn5ob

3 жыл бұрын

"I want to go to there"

@cancerguy5435

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ellen-pn5ob I guess the only way is to present the "not" button then, but it is hard to understand I suppose. Like, what does it mean "not home"? Outside, beach, maybe anywhere else? It's a question yet to answer.

This actually makes me think about how helpless so many dogs are because their humans don't understand them. Imagine how many dogs are just taken to different locations without knowing where or why. All they can do is guess. And if they want something, they rely on their humans to read their behavior correctly. Sometimes with pets we simply don't understand what they want. They may seem anxious, or excited, or angry. Yet we simply don't know what they want. I think many, if not most pets suffer because of this. Teaching them this type of communication gives them an opportunity to express their needs and wants in a way we can understand clearly. I plan to get a cat in the future, and I will try and implement these speech buttons as well. I would love to hear what my little friend thinks.

@k.m.223

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. It must be super frustrating for a dog sometimes. It's hard enough for two humans with a language barrier to communicate, let alone trying to make yourself understood to another species.

@gabbyb9418

3 жыл бұрын

I think its also good to show that dogs have thoughts, wants, fears, needs, etc much like a child. Too often people see dogs as dumb animals but they understand & fear much more than we give them credit for. I can't imagine how frustrating it must be for a dog.

@Ceares

3 жыл бұрын

@lullaby Oh I believe they do. We've "insulted" pets several times, mostly by laughing at them or talking about them and they've responded in a way that clearly shows they are insulted. It's happened multiple times, with multiple pets so I don't think it's a coincidence at all. I think they understand the gist of the conversation and the tone if not the exact words.

@samurguy9906

3 жыл бұрын

@lullaby I’m pretty sure my cat thinks “jerk” is a term of endearment. Because for her, it definitely is.

@ryuudevie7

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think a lot more people would want to use them (I certainly do!) if they weren't so expensive...

OMG...the dogs next door. Bunny and them are all like little kids. "Oh come on mom, an I go over and play?!"

Asking to play with her friends that are waiting outside for her is so adorable.

She's become more and more "fluent". I am very impressed by how fast she puts together accurate sentences

Sometimes she reminds me of when my kids were younger and saying “ mom,mom,mom “ and when I would say “ what do you want hun “ and they had to think of something because they were just bored and didn’t actually need anything.

As an ESL teacher this is fascinating. Often one has to rephrase for the student's context, not use articles ( a, the, those, etc.)and drop prepositional phrases. Since Bunny has to go outside to play with Tango, it couldn't be home to her.

@kyrab7914

3 жыл бұрын

That's fascinating. I just heard Koko and her friends couldn't understand prepositions either. Any idea what makes them so hard?

@moneybags999

3 жыл бұрын

@@kyrab7914 If you think about it, prepositions, for the most part, are an abstract concept which makes them hard to teach and for animals to grasp. How do you explain "to," "for," "at," or "by?" Other prepositions are easier like "on" or "in" because you can physically demonstrate something being on top of something or inside of something. We have native English speakers who can't conjugate verbs properly so I'm not the least bit concerned about an animal not being able to understand semantics or express relational concepts. LOL!!!

i love that she goes for a little walk around the room before hitting one

How does it feel being able to talk to humans when your friends can't?

@annagitana1

3 жыл бұрын

I wondered that.

@mole2100

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe bunny will find a way to teach her friends somehow.

@globalincident694

3 жыл бұрын

​@@mole2100 I wonder if we'll ever see dogs talking to each other with these buttons.

@freshoutofcrabs

3 жыл бұрын

@@globalincident694 - likely not. That would be like two friends who speak English fluently trying to have a conversation in Japanese, which only one of them kinda understands. It's possible, I guess, but why would you?

@Whimsy3692

3 жыл бұрын

@@freshoutofcrabs "Here, I'll teach you a little bit of Japanese. _Sayonara_ means goodbye. You got a handle on that?" "Yeah, I think I can remember that. _Sayonara!"_ Japanese friend: _"Totemo yoi!"_ Idk why that's so far a stretch.

When you said Selena is home, I thought you meant Selena is at your house too haha

2021 Planet of the Doggos, starting Bunny.

@WateverWatever04

3 жыл бұрын

Shoot, with how bad we've been doing they can have it 😅

I just saw someone in the comments to ask her if her friends are happy. That would be interesting.

What I'm mostly curious now is, can Bunny translate for other dogs? 🤔

@KlavierMenn

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently, yes. she heard her friend dog barking once and then pressed 'TANGO' "MAD'

@viral_suppressor4154

3 жыл бұрын

Well, I'm being captain obvious but, THAT would be "planet of the...dogs"?

@marxjenn1

Жыл бұрын

​@@viral_suppressor4154"Take your stinking paws off me you d**n dirty dog!"

It is such a delight to watch Bunny. She has the most charming face! Please give Bunny a hug from me. I'm Carol in Ohio.

I wonder if dogs have different barks and sounds for different things, and if Bunny will try to teach you how to speak dog one day. This is beyond impressive.

@OscarScheepstra_Artemis_

3 жыл бұрын

@@Angela-jc8bk come to think of it, the first dog I had had a VERY distinctive barking "sequence" when we were going on a walk. It was basically a phrase, consisting of longer and shorter barks that varied in pitch as well.

@aimeeinkling

3 жыл бұрын

There was an experiment a while back where they had humans identify what dogs were trying to communicate with their sounds (fear, aggression, play, nervous, etc) and the humans understood the meanings. We already know the language of dogs, we just need to recognize it for what it is.

@cynthiasmith3660

2 жыл бұрын

My 2 dogs were outside I heard my bigger dog bark like he was hurt only it wasn't a painful bark his feelings were hurt because the little one got out and he couldn't get out to be with her 😗🐕‍🦺🦮

Does bunny understand "away" yet? If selena isn't at your home and she is at her own home maybe it can be simplified by "selena is away". This is so much fun to watch. Thank u for sharing. ❤

@ThatGirlJD

3 жыл бұрын

Bunny has decided that Selena is "outside" it's a catch all for "outside or home".

I love how the does the little table loop to get her brain going and give herself time to form her answer. Gosh I love Bunny so much.

i may be imagining this, but I think I can SEE bunny thinking about how to answer in a way you will understand.

I love her saying help, then just standing there thinking "oh, I didn't think there'd be follow up questions"

Omg Bunny is not just an adorable face, she's also incredibly smart!

Perhaps "neighbor" could = friend's home?

@eventingirl001

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe just "house" in general or "yard"? like saying, "Selena is in her yard" or "Selena is at her house".

@QiotiCoyote

3 жыл бұрын

@Redish Peach she has those though. if you watch the other videos she learns just like a child how do you teach 'the' to a child? you use it in a sentence, they try it out and practice, and eventually get it right Bunny has shown to be able to do this, just like with the word went

@damienscullytoo

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking "elsewhere", as in they aren't at home, or directly outside, but far away. Can also be pretty generic, some passes away and they are "elsewhere", someone is working and they are "elsewhere". Its a concept of object permanence and illustrates an understanding of things existing even when we can't sense them

bunny is such a smart doggo, i feel she can be very important in some form in the future!

@phoneboxchicken4108

3 жыл бұрын

Potential senator of the USA at the very least.

I’m a new subscriber and am OBSESSED with Bunny. We’ve had two dogs that understood English sentences. One was a border collie mix and the other a lab mix. My mom had dementia and was deaf. The border collie had passed away right as my mom was diagnosed with dementia. I trained Ella, the lab to be her service dog using sign language cues, hand signals, body language and spoken English. Both my mom and Ella are gone now but I’ll never regret one minute spent helping either. Ty for sharing Bunny with us. 💓❤️💜🤗🙌🐾🐾

She has the BEST tail!

She really understands and responds. Smart girl.

Hi to anyone who reads this! Hope you’re having a lovely day! This is just a story with my dog and his progress with buttons, which was inspired by I Am Bunny :) My dog just started with the buttons and picked his first one up surprisingly fast! We introduced his first button, “outside”, on the 25th as a gift for him and would model it when he wanted to go outside. Today I sat down with him and the button a couple times to see what he would do, not expecting much, and he was excited to show off 😂 He picked the button up, erased the message, and tried to run off with it. When I got the button back, he shoved it underneath my leg to get me to press it, so I did and let him outside. The second time I sat with him, he actually pressed the button, twice! I was so excited and it turned out he didn’t even want outside in the first place 😅 He also sniffs the button when he comes inside (it’s right by the door to the back yard), which makes me wonder what he’s thinking 🤔 Anyway, just wanted to share my story, I really hope I can have conversations with him like Bunny and her owner do someday! I’m probably overthinking a lot of it, but I’m still excited nonetheless! I try not to get my hopes up 👉 👈

@phoenixdavida8987

3 жыл бұрын

Cool! Good luck!

It takes her a minute to figure out what she wants to say. She actually forms the sentences first, then types out the words. That is so amazing to watch. Those are some dedicated humans to take the time to teach her, and they learn together how to say things. I love that whole family.

This is just mind melting. This dog is using complex ideas, abstractions, and concepts equivalent to a 3 year old human child. It is nothing short of amazing. I wonder how far it goes. Humans have pushed the evolution of dogs ahead by selective breeding by light years where they would be in the wild. Just awesome.

I can't get enough of your videos. Animal language acquisition is really fascinating. I had a few ideas on helping Bunny learn more easily: 1. You're kind of inconsistent using "Hmm?" to signify questions. Bunny might use it more herself if you modeled "Hmm?" every time you asked her a question. 2. When dogs play (like with a tug toy) they're "fake fighting". So maybe "poop play" actually means "fake or not real poop". Watch out for any other time the word "play" might be used to mean something that's not real, or isn't what it appears to be. 3. Do you have a word for "other"? This might be very useful for describing things that can't be shown. So you could start by modeling "other toy" or "other food", and then progress to things like "other home".

@AriasArius

3 жыл бұрын

Oooo fair point on #2

@AK-jt7kh

2 жыл бұрын

Love #2 & 3! Such good points!

I wonder what that sweet babies IQ is,It definitely is higher than our other fur babies.bunny can tutor them🧡

That moment of epiphany when you get corrected by your own dog for a lack of better words , my jaw just dropped

@moneybags999

3 жыл бұрын

I got that she wanted to go outside. I didn't get the impression that she was helping "Mom" come up with a better word instead of "home."

Perhaps when someone is not here, you could say they are bye? Like in one video she asked for "dad play" and you told her "dad bye" to explain dad isn't here to play, and then said "dad play later." So maybe she would have understood "Selena bye" as Selena isn't here.

Thinking circles before answers. So so so cute. She looks very soft btw

I never get tired of watching these 🥰

Bunny should have her own series named, "Bunny and Friends!" Her expressions toward her mom is precious!

She is so smart! If I had this mat when my American Bully was alive I'm sure he would be fussing us out! He already rolled his eyes and huffed/deep sighed when he was frustrated with us.

Bunny has the cutest face and mannerisms

Aww.... Help. Friend. Play. Just about melted my heart 💓

Those eyes! I can hear the wheels turning.

i LOVE when she stops and thinks its SOOOO CUTE

Omg she's so beautiful. I just wanna hug her.

I am blown away by beautiful brilliant Bunny. "Selena is outside" was so smart of a clarification on her part. I love you sweetie ❤🐕! Years ago when I was having neuro communication issues due to my health, I realized the depth of communication in general. You guys are breaking ground. Thank you Allison for these wonderful videos and your patience to do this. Blessings to you both and your friends, family and Bunny's entire supportive circle (her dog friends included).

who in the world would give bunny videos a thumbs down???? And why????

Aww sweetheart, what a smart, beautiful and gentle soul she has. Such a good girl

Do you think it would work if you use "Selena Home" together to refer to her home? To teach Bunny that 'Home' can refer not just to your Home, but other people's homes? I dunno, saying they're outside doesn't really clarify much. I do think it's cute that Bunny looked around like "Selena isn't here, she's outside the house, clearly." and I think that's what she was trying to say with Outside, but I could be wrong. Either way, Bunny has been able to combine words before, so particularly if she's seen another dog's home before, she might be able to make that logical leap.

@nicklessjones8143

3 жыл бұрын

Just selena no home is easier

@aliceroorback3717

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe add a button that means 's so you can link things to the owner. Like how hmm? is used for a question. So where is Selena? She's at (selena) ('s) (home). Or maybe (home) (belong) (selena). Maybe easiest to model using her friends as example by going there and saying you're going to home belong selena.

@Stadtpark90

2 жыл бұрын

She probably knew what Alexis tried to say anyway. Bunny probably understands that her friends have homes of their own. In this case „where Selena?“ is more a statement like:“I‘m thinking of Selena.“

Time for prepositions!!

@billbusen

3 жыл бұрын

Rosetta Stone teaches prepositions in foreign languages just with pictures. I bet you are right - that would probably even go faster than expected.

@dragoncurveenthusiast

3 жыл бұрын

@@billbusen I doubt that. The use of prepositions varies hugely across languages. You notice that once you start learning a language that's not close to yours. It's even more apparent when someone close to you learns your language and you often have to try to explain why it's this preposition rather than the other. You just have to know which one to use, there's often no logic to it. I think it's a concept that's hard to model, since its use is so inconsistent and abstract.

Awww. This little cutie miss her friends and talk about them ♥️

I would LOVE to read how you, and when Stella's book comes out her's too, process on building the association with the more conceptual buttons! Like the example with "Where's Selena", because it's like. She is home, but ... not Bunny's home. This is so fascinating and wonderful to watch!

Bunny teaching mom English

I just freaking adore Bunny. X♡ 🐾❤🐾❤🐾❤

Bunny is so cute

Ma, get Selena on the horn, I wanna PLAY!

Maybe “outside outside” for ‘far’? Animals are pretty good at compounds like that...

@moneybags999

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking "away" but "far" might be good too. Whatever they use needs to be short & to the point.

Bunny is so stinkin' cute! You can see the little wheels turning in her head as she thinks about what to say. For the "Selena home" issue, maybe her puppy friends live at their respective "house", and Bunny lives at "home".

Wow , when people hold the camera here it just relaly shows so much dig live as they re seeing you. Love it!

This is such a joy toy see, we breaking that speech barrier between us and our fur friends , this is a huge breakthrough, we need to make this more common, affordable and mainstream asap

I just want to say how much I enjoy Bunnies videos.

The fact she remembers the words on so many buttons when she can't read them is impressive on its own

This dog is so unbelievably cute

she doesn't even have to look at the buttons much anymore!

Awww 🥰 I can’t get enough of Bunny ❤️💕😌

@davexl23

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with One Topic At A Time

Bunny is so cute❤️

What about “Selena is Selena home”

@ShoulderMonster

3 жыл бұрын

Ohhh, yeah! This, and another commenter's suggestion to add Away sound good. Outside might imply right outside the house.

@nicolaim4275

3 жыл бұрын

Alternately the word house can be used. Babies/toddlers tend to have an easier time understanding simple objects and actions than attributes or abstract concepts. Attributes can then be implied as a relationship between the objects to create the more complex meanings 'home house', 'Selena house' and 'stranger house'.

I love her tail, it's like a cheerleader's pompom!

You guys are amazing. Do you have a photo of Selena's house? Maybe "Selena Home" or "Selena House" would work. You could contrast that with a picture of your house for "Home" or "Bunny home." (This is assuming Bunny has seen Selena's house.)

@yippee8570

3 жыл бұрын

Humans are much more visual than dogs. I'd imagine dogs recognise places by scent rather than what they look like, so it might not work.

Yes, go, play. Flawless

I am addicted to watching Bunny. It makes me wish I had trained my dogs to speak!

Im just in love with her. I love her eyes! I bet if I would have taught my nevaeh banana dog this when she was young...shes almost 11...i bet she would have done it. She knows alot of words already. Dogs are the best thing in the world.

Y'all... I binge watch Bunny videos like crazy 😂

She’s starting to get that “why are you so dense mommy?” look on her face! 😆

That’s about the clearest answer yet. Yes go play.

she is so smart

I 💕 Bunny!

This is too cute!

This is wonderful to watch.

Have anyone noticed that sometimes it seems bunny is just walking over the board but in reality pressing calculated buttons without even looking, like he mastered it like a pro typist on a keyboard

Aaaaaawwwwwe!!!! 🙏❤️✨ love you Bunny!

Wow, this is just unbelievable!! She's brilliant!

Incredible! She speaks better than . . .me . . . Can she learn new languages? I'm sure she can! We can feel so much kindness, intelligence and . . . patience.

This is incredible.

Awww...look at those two munchkins waiting for Bunny ❤️

"Outside home" seems like an effective way of getting the point across to me. Their homes are outside of Bunny's home. I think she'd understand it.

I have fallen in love with Bunny. 🥰

I love Bunny! She seems to add an exclamation ‼️ mark by walking around post in circle coming back to word she wants to exclaim! Like saying " Wait for it.....MAD!!" Once she really emphasized mad by repeating circle and "mad" again. Her voice!

Too cute!😍

SO CUTE!!!❤🐶

Selena is Selena home! Not Bunny home.

Bunny is solo levely

Bunny is amazing and adorable 🥰

Maybe you should teach bunny “house” as supposed to home. So you can teach her “bunny house” and “Selena house”. If you think about it there’s no “home” concept to dogs. Home IS family. Home is her two hoomans, but family can live in houses😀

Wow thats amazing

Paws for thought!

i love her little running around the table...

She's super smart and adorable 😂

....this is so incredible... Just mindblowing stuff..