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This is Flambo. He's using his talking dog buttons to accuse his small foster brother of being a cat. Nothing can convince him otherwise. 13/10 for both (IG: flambothedog)

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Man, I know this is cute and funny, but I hate these stupid dog sound boards and by proxy bunny's owner who made it big. It's just modern pseudoscience. Like it can work for simple things like "play" and "outside" but the dog does NOT understand the concept of "cat" to the extent this video implies

My mini LH dachshund weights about 10 pounds, and when he meets big dogs they frequently sniff him and then look puzzled. "Smells like dog...but is cat? Maybe squirrel?"

Because the dog doesn't know what a cat is. The problem with how these sound boards are used is that we have no idea what specifically the dog has associated the word "cat" with. They could just think it means "small". They have no way to provide any meaningful feedback to correct that kind of error

Not necessarily; I dont recall if Bunny/Otter have a cat in the house (possibly yes since there's a "cat" button), but they have buttons for "small" and "big" and they often use it correctly to describe things.

It bothers me how many people don't realize every single video of an animal with 50+ buttons on the ground absolutely has no concept of this beyond getting attention for pushing them.

Only one dog I've had in my family would have enjoyed learning and using these buttons. She kept learning all the ways we tried to disguise the word "walk", even spelling and other languages. She was a Chow Chow and German Shepherd mix.