Bunny The Talking Dog Has Existential Thoughts 

Lol

I say the same but it's because I haven't had a haircut in over a year and so my hair looks like crap.

we is getting old, man :(

probably wants to know how mirrors work

@@OfficialSeth A fellow person with a lockdown hairstyle, I see. The virus is so rampant outside that last time I went to the saloon was in 2019, before the first wave.

I spent some time in China and took a side gig as an esl teacher. I had a 4 year old student who somehow learned the word why, and he will spawn the fucking word so much Haha, I actually loved how clever he was

-You can't have chocolate -Why? -Because chocolate is deadly for dogs.

because you'll diediediediedie

@@cancerguy5435 "no chocolate!" "why no chocolate?" "bunny die."

@@alansmithee419 why die

I think that's definitely a possibility too! Like she's wondering why neither of them look like they belong to the same species (but in her level of understanding, just why they look so different)

Yes!! I wonder if she thinks she's human and wonders why she looks different than her Momma.♥️ I've had dogs that I swear they thought they were human. Listened intently. The two I got now only hear cue words, or just don't care what I'm saying to them!😅

Maybe shes asking what to call them? She sees somthing and probably knows associated with her, but probably can't figure out to what extent. Imagine seeing your doppelganger, she probably thinks the reflection is alive but it can't be herself. So what do you call it? "Who, bunny" and "who, mom" they are bunny and mom but you cant call them that because bunny and mom already exist. why/how can a reflection exist? This must be so confusing to her.

YOOOOO

Although dogs dont really have a concept of “species” (or at least i dont think they do). The mother and siblings likely have some level of understanding that they look similar, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they expect to encounter any other similar looking dogs or that they even consider similar looking dogs to be similar to them.

lol fair point

@Tech VX She DOES, she talks remember ... Some people just have too much time and money at hand. The only thing positive here is that she looks well cared for.

@Tech VX Nah, I'm pretty sure Bunny knows that when her parents say "bunny", they're referring to her. However, I don't think Bunny knows what a bunny is.

@Tech VX r/ woooooosh

Haha, why you call me Bunny - I see a dog.

And kiss. And feed. And cuddle. All care and affection as a means to *show* and for her to *feel* the answer to Bunny's question ♡♡

If you understand dog behaviour you’d know that most dogs don’t like hugs. Hugs don’t mean the same to us as they do to them. There are other ways to show affection to dogs in a way they understand. Ppl need to stop anthropomorphize dogs. They are not children. Just cause we can get them up to (sorta) use our words to convey their wants and needs, does not mean they are capable of abstract thoughts and understanding of complex emotions and ideas. Now, with that said, I’d like to see if Bunny can pass the mirror test for self-awareness.

@@GoBooYourself Well let's leave that up to Bunny and her owner to decide that. I don't think it's quite fair to speak for all dogs whether they like hugs or not, recognize emotions or not. Some do, some don't. I've seen many dogs who are more than fine with hugs from their humans. As for understanding complex emotions, again I think we should leave that to each dog and their respective owners to decide. Dogs can sense and recognize different emotions, that's why they're favorite support animals. Maybe not exactly the same as humans do, but they can recognize emotions and associate some kind of meaning to a few gestures in varying degrees. You make a good point, but I don't see it as one size fits all. Humans and dogs bonded over generations because of both their differences but also because of some social relatability.

*Support animals, including service and working dogs.

@@GoBooYourself pardon me sir. Maybe I should have said lay down with her, or take a nap beside her, or do some other thing like pet her while you're close to her. I do so apologize for suggesting something that may have meant squeeze the s*** out of her but I do forget how pedantic people in subgroups can tend to be.

Ephesians‬ ‭6:10‭-‬18 says, Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. The bible is no old book. You have to really let Christ open your eyes; to see the world in shambles. Many people say it's a religion to lock up people in chains, and say it's a rule book.. why? Because people hate hearing the truth, it hurts their flesh, it's hurts their pride, it's exposes on what things have they done..people love this world so much, s*x, money, power, women, supercars.. things of this world. Still trying to find something that can fill that emptiness in your heart. You can't find that in this world.. only in Christ, the bible is no chains, it's a chainbreaker. Breaking your sins into pieces... Repent now, and turn back to the true Lord only.. God bless.❤❤

Explaining electromagnetism to a dog... we're gonna need more buttons...

or why they let her evil twin in the house

Take the mirror outside on a sunny day to show how light reflects

I'm thinking maybe you can see a reflection the same as in water or in some glass. Maybe that could help.

I have a large mirror leaning against the wall in my living room. Whenever my dog looks at me through the mirror, I wave really big at her and remain doing so until she turns her head to see the real me continuing to do so. Then it confirms to her that this is a reflection of the real us. ❤️

😂 I think that’s what she’s asking tbh. What is this doing here and why? Who’s that guy copying me

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"just" "to" suffer" "hmmm?"

"concerned"..."is" "God" "psychopath"? "Hmmm"?

"Bunny" "hurt" "arm" "leg" "finger"

"Mad." "Mom. Stranger." "Mad." "Why?" "Mad." "Bunny. Outside. Play." "Mad. Outside. Mad." "Love you. Outside. Stranger." "Mad." That'd be cute as hell to see!

@@StudioBrock1337 that is the most accurate thing 😂😂😂

dogs and cats = dwarfs and hobbits... passionate medium-sized laborers, and stubborn small-sized introverts

@@AuntBibby Cats can be very extroverted. Very social. I have 2 cats who both really love other cats as well as people. The thing that most people don't understand about cats is that they naturally live in colonies, where females will help their sisters raise kittens, and where they go out to hunt by themselves. The hunting part is solitary, but they are social. Cats are also very plastic - how they grow up shapes what is 'normal' to them, so if you give them lots of affection and hold them a lot as kittens, they will grow up wanting that. If you leave a kitten alone as it grows up, it will think that is normal, and not want anything to do with you.

@@StudioBrock1337 ACCURATE AF 😂😂

let 👏 dogs 👏 vote 👏

The 'imagine if' is a delightful rabbit hole to go down and I hope we humans are good enough to explore this. Imagine the positive impacts on animal rights and welfare, discrimination against certain breeds regardless of the dogs nature and upbringing, rehabilitation of dogs after traumatic events (e.g. rather than just labelling them as 'dangerous', we might understand they were in great fear and lashed out in self defence), and so on! :-D

dogs whole shtick have been to evolve cuteness so humans do things for them.

Let dogs be president

@@1000niggawatt that's cats lol, they've hardly changed since getting smaller. We bred dogs to be cute. We as a species have domesticated wolves many times but it wasn't until they became smaller and more docile through breeding that they became a more permanent; I learned recently that wolves would keep getting domesticated to an extent, then breed too much and start dominating areas so they'd have to be killed off for peoples safety.

Was thinking exactly the same!!!!!

THERE YOU GO!!!!!! Maybe Bunny's momma never had a child talking baby talk yet. If you have children, you might understand Bunny a like better. I totally agree with you on this. What Bunny? YOU ARE A DOG DARLING!

imagine the overwhelming and mind-blowing things dogs could learn

You did too

this similar effect can be seen in coco the gorilla

Oh yeah I remember your comment lol

I mean, that is kinda the point of the block function, to some degree. "I don't like this, please don't show it to me." It's just that we almost exclusively block toxic people that being blocked carries that implication. Though I agree about not relating, though I can kind of see why it would freak your roommate out. We do have a habit of not thinking of animals as intelligent and though I wouldn't say Bunny hits that notion with a sledgehammer, it certainly does challenge it.

That's funny

Cats, dogs & pigs have the intelligence of a human toddler. They can learn words & make small simple sentences.

Thats weird.

I've seen this reaction but I will never understand it. When I see something like this my mind BURSTS with curiosity and excitement! Your world and mind must be so small and narrow if something like a dog communicating with English words rocks your world and makes you question everything. Good. You should be questioning everything. Get your damn head out of the sand!

Words of a legend

I ask myself that everyday

I think she's wearing a tuxedo. Very classy.

I think it looks like she’s wearing a dance leotard 😂

Very bery much agreed!!!

Cannot agree more. 😆

I’m almost certain that anyone who thinks this dog forms complex thoughts about it’s existence…. Would make a horrible scientist.

@@ClumsyFlounder As a human with dog-like intellect, I get this dog's distress. Maybe it's sentient enough to worry about his appearance differing greatly from it's owner's. If so it surely doesn't understand the concept of race/species. And growing up without any other dogs around probably didn't help. Perhaps, like a low IQ person, his chaotic thinking power just barely grabs the concept of self, before looping back without any breakthrough to make it mindfully grounded.

@@Z0Z99 dog like intellect.....? Really? Can you quantify that / prove it?

@@ClumsyFlounder Of course not, it's a joke.

@@ClumsyFlounder And why couldnt a dog form those thoughts? They are sentient.

I think I know how the “who” was taught, but the “why” and “it” are what confuse me most.

@Phyre I don't think OP is suggesting Bunny is *incapable* of learning those words but without knowing *how* she learned them we don't know whether her understanding of them is exactly the same as ours. From an outside view, her pressing the "who" button doesn't (by itself) prove she knows what it means. Because we don't know what associations she has with it.

Well, not that this might help, but whenever we have squirrels in our backyard I'll yell to my dog "who's there??" and he knows EXACTLY what that means. He also knows the difference between "squirrel" vs "crow". Perhaps she started with that initial question?

@Phyre i'd say because you are biologically wired for speech (especially grammar) while the dog isn't, even great apes can comunicate with sign language or pictograms but don't get grammar properly, it's a really hard stuff to get. they can say "me like banana" but something like "i would love to have some banana" is kinda impossible, they can never get past the "tarzan state" as i call it, it's already amazing and you can understand a lot already but you can't have full explanation or completely share a concept with someone like we're doing. for now this a a human specificity (one of the last as we discovered some toolmakers by the handfull) in my neuropsy's point of view he will never understand the concept of a mirror (at least he isn't showing it now and no dog ever did so he would be the first ever [but he could be, the fucker got so many words, i'm already amazed, if a dog did understand mirror, it would be one like that]). i think the bigger problem with mirror is that it include the concept of "yourself" witch is such a part of us that we don't realise we human too didn't have it at birth, small child don't pass the mirror test too. i'm also wondering how much she get the concept of those words too, especially concept words like "love you" "why" "?", i don't think she gets the whole idea but it's still very impressive.

@ChocoGamin3 Except that wouldn't explain the "why" to the dog. That's only an example conversation. OP is asking how the dog could grasp existential meaning behind "who" and "why".and how "why" is interrogative and "who" is a pronoun.

Visually, if you see Bunny in the mirror from the camera, that means generally Bunny can see the person holding the camera in the mirror. Bunny might also be able to see herself in the mirror at the same time, too. I have cats, and I have seen them look at me off of large mirrors, when they can't see me directly, and even look at themselves or me off of reflections on tinted glass. Conceptually it seems like it would be easier for them to understand they are looking at a reflection of someone else in a mirror than themselves, or maybe it isn't so different. It would be really interesting to really get to the point where we could clearly understand what is going on in their heads, but the slow progress in that direction is interesting in the meantime.

@@burnttoast111 However, if Bunny were to see herself with her Mother, then Bunny could get a solid grasp on what a reflection is. Not how it works, but at least what it is.

@@dirtysouthtv2209 Maybe. I'm not saying you are wrong, I just don't know. I could see different rationales for different approaches. I would absolutely love it if Bunny could demonstrate she understands what a reflection is, as that would be groundbreaking. Only great apes and dolphins have previously demonstrated this, afaik.

I'm sure they must have tried that, even off camera they probably show her, bunny and dad in the mirror. Pluse she can see the rest of the room in the mirror, so that probably helps.

@@burnttoast111 A few bird species (like some pigeons), a type of small fish called the cleaner wrasses, and even myrmica ants have passed the mirror test.

I show your mum love quite the same way tbh.

Thank you for commenting! I was so fascinated by bunny and I love your look on this. It explains alot about this whole thing from your point of veiw. Xx

I have thought the same thing. I don't feel it means anything if an animal doesn't recognize itself in a mirror. Their eyes are different. Also like you say their vision is not as important to a dog as their sense of smell. Maybe some animals recognize they are in the mirror but they don't care about it. If you tried to train an animal to do something and it never seemed to learn, that wouldn't automatically mean that it was stupid. Maybe it just doesn't have any drive to please a human.

I'm pretty sure all dogs have this awareness, but humans in their ignorance and arrogance have spent the last 10000 years expecting the canines to be their grateful slaves.

@@burningdiamond agreed - not just about dogs either, but many (or maybe most?) species of animals for the most part.

@@tenshimoon It seems to be a matter of convenience to justify various terrible actions. Humans also do this to other humans. Charles Darwin wrote about how Captain Fitzroy of the HMS Beagle took him to see Fitzroy's friend on some South American (?) plantation. The plantation owner wanted to demonstrate how slavery was a good thing, so he summoned one of his slaves and asked them 'would you rather be free or a slave?', to which the slave replied that they would rather be a slave. Darwin correctly pointed out that a slave would lie to avoid being punished for saying what the owner didn't want to hear. To be clear, Darwin was racist, but at least he didn't think slavery was justifiable.

@@burnttoast111 i agree, sadly our history is littered with people trying to justify all sorts of evils/atrocities. Oh cool I've never heard/read that story before, and I think that's the most likely reason why the slave said that. Being brainwashed & groomed could be another reason which could be the 2nd most likely probability, and only the *tiniest* sliver of a probability that the slave owner was as "benevolent" a slave owner as was possible back then, but even then that's an astronomical stretch of the imagination (I've only ever heard of willing/consensual "slavery" in role-play & fringe kink communities buuuut now I'm beginning to digress with that mention 😅).

@@tenshimoon It's from "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin". Re-reading it, the essence of what I said is right, although the details are different. You can find a pdf of it for free if you search for it. It's worth a read, IMHO.

Literally this, but people desperately want to believe that something isn't mundane 🙄

"this button makes human talk a lot!"

She could have pressed any of the buttons

@@J_Star_34 apes... they would never change.

Yep. The who and why buttons are awful close to the mirror 🪞

Lol? You can't tell if he is pushing random buttons or if there is any thought whatsoever behind it, are you brainwashed

you can see the dog is walking on buttons, this woman obviously just films her dog every day and it walks over some of the dozens of buttons she has everywhere, wake up please

@@slappy5204 I’m brainwashed the dog is the buttons inside the brain of the buttons so the dog can press them I am the dog inside the buttons

@_ I think people like you are the least sentient, run on pure emotion and use no common sense, you are the one that is rude you can clearly see the dog is walking over the buttons, yes some clips it looks it is pressing it but thats the point im making, its not real. maybe you should calm down and not be so emotional about everything you see

@@slappy5204 Have you not seen any of the other videos on this channel? Where she is clearly intentionally pressing buttons, and even forming semi-coherent sentences? Did you know dogs can have the self-awareness and intelegence of a four year old child? I think you are just trying to look cool by being "realistic", when in reality, it's just annoying, and false, pesimism.

biggest problem with the buttons is the lack of emotion needed for the dog to communicate. It is like an intellectual, left-brained dog. I can see Bunny touching the buttons trying to communicate dnager, instead of barking loudly.

They would speak perfect dog, so they don’t need the cumbersome button and human speech method with another dog.

mine. mine. mine mine

To be clear, your claim is that because dogs primarily experience the world through smell, and because a dog can not smell itself, then a dog seeing it’s own reflection does not cause self awareness?

@@gameofadages6847 If you mean that Bunny only recognizes herself through her own scent, but does not recognize herself through her reflection, then yes I think?

@@gameofadages6847 I believe they're saying bunny recognizes her reflection in the mirror but isn't registering a smell that she would expect from another being so is trying to work out why mirror bunny doesn't give off another scent or even her own scent.

@@Aethozoid my bad I didn't see the reply before I threw my 2 cents in.

When my Waldo was under a year, he kept seeing his reflection in the glass of our cabinet, and he would bark. We would say to him "you silly boy! That's you!" After we told him that a number of times, he started posing. He would catch his ball and stop, and look at his reflection. It seemed he was checking out his gorgeous athletic awesomeness. He was also the smartest dog I ever had.

but "what dad" and "where dad" would be two very different questions

@@lizzalkula376 "dad is at what place" you don't need where. Toki pona demonstraits this. "mama li lon seme?" "father (x) at what?"

@@lipamanka I'm not looking at the where exactly. I'm saying that 'where (is) dad/ dad at what' is different than "what dad?" ("what type of creature is dad?" -- I know it's a leap but she *IS* already asking who she is and what love is, so...)

@@lizzalkula376 I suggest you research toki pona. It should clear up some of your questions. I reccomend ma pona pi toki pona, the discord server. You'll learn a lot - you seem really interested.

@@lipamanka this is another language (? haven't listened or watched yet but looks like maybe a form of Esperanto?) - I kind of thought it might be- but might that not confuse the dog? I'm thinking along the lines of not only would the (pet) parent need to learn/know this other language and then keep up with the new language (I've heard/read/seen that the best way to have bilingual children is to have at least one parent model either language - or have something like French at home and English in public (for example). I wonder if that would be needed in a case like using this? (Then again children who cannot speak yet are taught 'baby signs' (or have picture boards or tactile _buttons_ ;-) )sometimes to get their points across when they don't have the words to vocalize it... )

Yes, please I saw in another video it is house by water, but I would love to know more about it. There were small cranes that look like they help with boats? And interesting upper porch with no rails. I live in the mountains, and you clearly live in a unique or interesting different lifestyle. Very interesting and different.

Are they living in a houseboat?

The channel "I am Bunny" with longer videos.

That's was at the back of my mind . Is she self aware or good at face reading ? Hope she doesn't become depressed if she is ! That would be sad .

All on her own, she has told the meowing cat to "shut up and go upstairs(go away). :D

The dog got depressed 😂 on meds. She’s a terrible pet owner

Haha!

U think the dog knows how to talk?

Because why

Do you record 24/7?

Not random since he’s used to hearing those sounds. But this whole situation is crazy the dog should not be pressing on buttons sad

Baby don't hurt me

You will call me snowball....

Wow