@ashbashesmybrains: your dog doesn’t think like a human, they think like a dog. *edit: to anyone with expertise in neuroscience, i am oversimplifying for the sake of this video. many researchers are putting a lot of effort into exploring theory of mind and abstract thinking in dogs, but what i want to get across is that it is in no way established the way much of the general population seems to think. #dogtok #learning #animallearning
The over humanization of dogs has gotten exhausting
2026-06-20 10:16:41
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sloppy10ths :
they genuinely think the dog’s vocal chords are holding them back
2026-06-19 15:58:47
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Pixel :
that's why I only have buttons like "toy", "ball", "treat", "food", "water", and "outside" and train to associate the button and word with that specific thing or activity
2026-06-19 15:29:52
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Brie :
As if Bunny the dog knows what “tomorrow” means 😭
2026-06-20 11:11:52
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Dahn :
Humans love patterns, dogs love validation from their owners
2026-06-19 18:46:22
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️Rhe :
finally a smart person on tiktok
2026-06-19 18:19:44
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Dr Otto Octavius (Doc Ock) :
Yeah like , Bentley is pressing “Bentley Sad” because when he does you give him more attention
2026-06-19 16:10:59
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satisfactory is amazing :
some of them are realistic like "outside" "play" "food" digs can 100% learn to press those when they want that. but "why me dog?" yeah that's just cus you react to them pressing stuff positively
2026-06-19 23:02:16
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Mc Lovin :
They should look into my friend Pavlov
2026-06-19 15:48:56
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melody :
exactly like it’s literally pattern recognition at best
2026-06-19 15:17:30
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Mills ⁷ :
Omg this is me but with when people say “as a society we don’t acknowledge enough that parrots can speak” erm they’re not speaking they’re just mimicking the noise ur making
2026-06-19 18:19:02
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willow :
this video is like a breath of fresh air
2026-06-19 15:37:01
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Why are u showing me a yellow card
2026-06-20 08:54:50
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lesbo$ lady :
someone remembers when Bunny the dog pressed the buttons that said like "thought" and "sleep" and the human said she was telling her about her dreams 😭
2026-06-19 17:46:57
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Luke :
I ALWAYS THINK THIS. the dogs know the button is linked to an action. but it is by association that they learn these things. they have no CONCEPT of the words, they simply understand the pattern of syllables and how they link to an action. a dog doesn't directly understand the concept of happiness or sadness
2026-06-19 17:03:05
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Strawberry :
I gave my dog a button for “existential despair” and every time he presses it I give him a treat to help cheer him up. It turns out my dog experiences a lot of existential despair.
2026-06-20 20:15:17
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Yuval :
Thank you I’ve been screaming this for years
2026-06-20 16:08:55
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Emil Visti :
It's wild to me that this needs to be explained at this level.
2026-06-19 17:03:56
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ella :
to everyone asking “how do you know”, the answer is very long and based on years of studying animal and human learning. look into this yourselves if you want to know the answer because there is absolutely no way i can fit this volume of information into a tiktok
2026-06-19 20:36:41
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davebensonphillips :
Thank you! I got flamed on a video of a cat using buttons to tell its owner to take the laundry out of the machine, for saying cats have no concept of laundry and they do not give af whether it gets done or not
2026-06-19 16:35:24
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wisp :
i asked my dog if this was true and he used his buttons to say "give orange me give eat
orange me eat orange
give me eat orange
give me you" so he clearly speaks perfect english
2026-06-19 15:56:35
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Ollie :
It’s the *exact* same trick that tarot readers and “mediums” use. They take 1 random, ambiguous, isolated piece of vague information, connect it to something generic through Barnum statements, and let your imagination fill in the gaps. So a dog pressing a button that says “Kitchen,” becomes this magical narrative where “Dog reminds owner pasta is boiling in the kitchen!” No… the dog just pressed a button, and you created a narrative where you “forgot” about a low-level dangerous situation and were miraculously reminded by a vaguely relevant word being pressed in a vaguely relevant window of time
2026-06-19 16:55:12
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