More Scritches Now
Alexis Devine, like several committed dog owners, spends hours each day talking to her dog, Bunny, in her living room. The strange thing is that Bunny is back “talking”. Scroll through the TikTok page of Devine and see a stream of videos that are following the same general trend. You can see Bunny pushing three buttons consecutively in this video: More, Scritches, Now.
Outside
Some concepts are easier to model than others, so she had to be imaginative, Devine said. Devine has to model how they are used in speech in order to teach different words to Bunny. For instance, Devine said she would push the “outside,” button when Bunny was still learning the word “outside” and say the word until she let her out.