Shaka, when the walls fell, er, box of pencils fell. 😀

I think Cory knew you were going to be bored when you came and it was a plea for help... lol

I'm in metal engineering too and this is it, i'm getting myself a cockatoo!

​@@dannydetonator Check the lifespan. I'm not googling it but some of these smart birds can out live you.

❤❤❤

Feral cats we fed as teens, they ALL said goodbyes like this before disappearing forever...

This brought a tear to my eye….

Puts paw on your cheek... "You you were always such an A$$-Whole...but you were my favorite A$$-whole." 😸😿 You: "Aww, I'll miss you too Alex."

That's very sweet. I'm not looking forward to the day I have to say goodbye to my little fur babies. 🙏✌️

He was trying to steal your life force for himself but failed.

But some of us do. And the more people who do, the more discussions are going to be opening up about it, giving us the opportunity to re-evaluate our actions.

What makes thing complicated is that those animals we may be thinking of tend to treat each other poorly over ideas and concepts of how to run the world. Imagine what’s coming once the higher order animals with structured language start asking their humans for direct help. Also what to do when they start asking for us to knock off their neighbours? Every being with a brain eventually practices politics.

The people listen with empathy often. The tyrants (“leaders”) who make us believe we need them are in the wrong.

@@DanteS-119 It was not politicians that put Ota Benga in the Bronx zoo in 1906.

@@JasonBunston We enlighten them to the ways of peace and prosperity.

in captivity scarlet macaws can live up to 75 years. Buddy might still be alive. And after reading first comment, he remembers you too.

Go to him!

That is sweet and sad. You may have been his only friend. It would be really cool to hear that he's still alive and you reunited with him.

@@WishfulCreation I would love that very much!!

@@Cathnova I might have to put a trip back home together and go find him!

where are you going? can i go?

what are you playing with? can i play?

Mine is just „can I have some?“ he doesn’t care what it is.

​@@dezignateddriva"I missed you". "I missed *you* a whole lot" vs "I was lonely and bored" "Your drunk, let's go home" to the yowling cat it just picked up and is carrying home.

Naah, that's your vocabulary.

😂 I love this soooooo much 😂

At least he didn’t say something rude, or “hey baby! Love those feathers! What you doing later?…?”

Awe. That's cute! I have budgies. The smallest of the parrot family. And even my teeny birds are so smart. I love them so much.

As an animal wishing to communicate how hilarious this episode is, I am compelled to share I had to stop at various points to finish laughing so I didn’t miss a single point you were making. which begs the point if we will find visibility in our fellow animal travelers… Thanks for being so…risible yourself!

😂😂my friend’s parrot startled her and she screamed lol and then the bird said “sorry” 😮 she was so spooked

Ours faked a cough once for attention.

Interestingly enough, puppies will paw at their mom when they want milk, and as they grow up, pawing at things or people ends up sort of meaning "please give me"

We had a dog that used to do a very similar thing for attention. If you were at the computer, he'd come put his nose under your forearm, and then fling your arm into the air with his nose so it landed on his head. It was his very direct way of telling you that it was time to pet him.

Glad to be early.

The thing about complex thoughts is that it's very hard to have them without words. Bunny can operate an abstract framework that no other dogs can because they haven't been taught it. And it's VERY HARD for a dog's brain to fit the ... The SHAPE of this conceptual system. It's like building solar panels in a cavern--the cavern is not LESSER in any objective sense when compared to other spaces but it's not optimal for this function... The speech therapy buttons are like building a spotlight on extension cords so the solar panel in the cave can do anything at all. But sometimes... A shaft of pure sunlight is angled JUST SO that it penetrates deep into this environment that has had zero optimization to utilize it, but hits those panels, and we see BREAKTHROUGHS. They're breathtaking moments of precious clarity.

Omg I can’t stop laughing at this 🤣

Cringe.

​@@StonehawkAwesome analogy, I've seen some pretty cool videos of Bunny before but never that sun-through-the-clouds moment you mention. I love the idea of a lil pup steering the weight of consciousness with some plastic buttons on the floor lmao

I'd call that clever and cute

Putting SOME humans below on the intellectual scale may be an excellent idea. Did your dog think of that?

I hope those who feel their pets are capable of thinking and feeling apply it to animals other than their pets and stop eating them or exploiting them for milk.

No. Dog didn't understand anything "at an abstract level". You just convinced yourself that it did. DO NOTE that you're even describing the event as YOU FINALLY GETTING IT. Not the dog finally getting it "at an abstract level". I.e. On some level, you actually know you're fooling yourself, you're just not willing to admit that. You're too smart for that! You have a pedestal and all to prove that! Instead, you went ahead and constructed an entire complex reasoning and communication map for your dog. While also constructing reasoning how it was YOUR error not understanding the dog's way of thinking - all that rather than accepting the reality. That the dog is simply not able to communicate more than a few simple needs, completely unrelated to the buttons it is pressing, with you filling out the gaps with confirmation bias. Here's a hint. Had the dog been able to understand "at an abstract level" it would have been pressing "outside" and "water" repeatedly, until finally getting to you. Hell... it would scratch the patio door, bark or vocalize some other way. Do you really think your dog just gave up on all the millennia of built-in instinctual behavior in favor of some buttons - willing to sit there, thirsty, for hours, looking to make eye contact with you and the bowl? Is your dog SUCH a stickler for etiquette when it comes to water and food? Or have you instead cherry picked one single moment it stumbled onto "outside" button and eagerly read the meaning you were waiting for into that. The people who sold you that toy are basically using your dog to pull a cold reading scam on you.

@@d3nza482I've had several dogs, they did only do one thing. This terrier now, showed me new sentence, "play" "food" "outside", and took each (toy, showed want food and when I said ok backed up and brought leash as outside)... Yeah we had had 2 of those, but at friend's place we sometimes went to hunt moles on nearby place. I asked friend how much he'd be willing to bet we'll be beelining to that mole-field, didn't want any since watched same episode. Yes we usually went to other places there but dog remembered (30 mins walk there). So difference between dogs yes, and what interests them, probably not a fluke, not sure ofc. But beeline there. And the first two things dog did take back when I said "ok let's play" or didn't want "food/treats". Yeah, the dog did same "sentence" later in different place too, "let's go eat play with moles outside". Near other place.

@@d3nza482 chill. It’s not that serious.

Honestly I’m so glad someone else’s cat does this too, it’s very specific and I thought I was going crazy. She’s a very smart cat, sometimes she will sit at the window making chirping noises to attract birds and makes a similar noise when she wants to play

That last part is sort of like playing charades. You make a motion, and once someone says what your are trying to convey, you look and them and point. Same thing.

I get the impression that different dogs have different level of intelligence, so the sound board might work with yours, but not with another dog because the second one has a different level of understanding of the workings of the sound board. Even among humans we still have flat earthers and those who believe in supernatural beings, while also having Nobel Prize laureates… Imagine extraterrestrial intelligent beings coming over to Earth and the first humans they encounter are some morons hung up in some megachurch convention. Not a very good first impression, is it?

@@soffici1 Yes, of course. There are many dogs, individual dogs, of greater than normal understanding. But most dogs, while being quite smart, and exceptional at reading what humans want of them, are still responding to what their human "master" (chosen master by that dog itself) wants of them. Dogs are AMAZING at reading humans. BTW, this comes from a Vet of >30 years in practice, so not just some schmuck. I think these sound-boards are a great idea, but you need to start very small and see how far your little friend can go. However, having said that, I would also encourage all you dog owners out there to learn along with your dog-friend to speak to each other. It's not that hard since both of you are working toward the same goal.

@@dbf1dware very good advice. We have adopted a 7yo Rottie and she was obese, depressed and frankly quite unresponsive. In the course of the last 3 years she’s grown to have a new childhood (dunno if the term is applicable to dogs, but hey). We play games with her and, albeit not her chosen master (that title goes to my better half), I try challenge her with new games and to teach her new tricks. But she’s old and scared of male humans (she was beaten by a pair of them), so the learning is veeeeeeeery slow. The sound board is nowhere in her future, but it’s satisfying to see her waggle her tail again

Her hitting the water button before drinking water is like the sounds my dad makes before and after he drinks... 😂😂😂

BRAVO @astorbeijer9424, you've got it. I've lived with Wolf-dogs before and they listen well and have a lot to say. And, my dogs have never been MY dogs, they are not furniture or mere possessions (as they are under law), but companions, family, really. Anybody who abandons a dog abandons their soul with it, damn them! At least have the humanity to take him/her to a shelter to be adopted.

Macaws are amazing. I have a blue and gold macaw also. He is 23 years old now, had him since a baby. He says "cracker, cracker" When I say "we don't have any crackers right now", he says "then how about a banana"

I had one that would do fashion checks. Every time I wore something new and I'd walk by her, she'd suddenly stop, stare up and down for a few seconds, then either act very happy or turn around and walk away. One time she walked away, I went and changed and came back and got her approval, then I had no doubts. she was right, too.

I have a feeling that if we ever get an *accurate* animal language translator, we will be disappointed at how small the animal's vocabulary is. Especially for cats, LOL

@@FLPhotoCatcher We know so little about the life of cats. I think they just don't care for us enough to communicate to us more than "want" "food"/"outside"/"pet". We are like that kid from your class you never talk to.

What a smart and sweet kitty❤

My dog does the same thing. If he ever scratches me or runs into me, he just looks at me like "oh dang." Then I tell him to say sorry and he shakes my hand and gets all happy again lmao

Your writing style is very pretentious. Like you took a singular creative writing course

​@@changedpace9169let them tell their story and live, negative Nancy.

Thank you for sharing this story :)

When I was growing up I had a Shetland Sheepdog that we adopted from a family friend at the age of 2. He was very well acquainted with verbal communication. I’m not entirely sure why but he understood “casa” to mean “house” (what my dad would tell him when he wanted him to go to his house). I don’t remember the context of when it was first said but it did open my mind to the fact that dogs can learn multiple languages as they are just sounds because the concept of different languages is completely made up.

I have 1 smart cat, 1 dumb cat, and one neurotic cat. Luna's is a total himbo. Sola isn't that bright, but she is loving. Aster has an eating disorder. And she likes to tease Sola. Aster also doesn't like to be touched most of the time. And she is clumsy because she has way too many toes.

Awwww

Best fib in KZfaq!

I honestly don't know if it is interpretation lol Sometimes I think we don't give animals enough credit about what they do and don't understand. I have a bunch of budgies at home and they are way smarter than they appear at first.

Oh they totally got what you meant and you got what they were putting out. They point at stuff with their beaks. They have been around us long enough to know how we point. (Well some know some don't) They probably didn't understand your words but... who knows, maybe they did.

@@OgdenM It's possible they understood the word river along with pointing. It's also possible that they were just curious what the human was pointing at or assumed they were pointing to be helpful.

Did you meet Hoover the seal?

It's *cuttlefish, not cuddlefish. They don't cuddle. 😜

the dont fish either but they are technically squid

I had this experience with a fish as a kid. I learned later on in adult years that fish are much smarter than people give credit for. I don't doubt that I was probably anthropomorphizing to some degree, but still. The fish was just so curious, unafraid of me. Like, we were both curious about each other.

@@theperfectbotsteve4916no cuttlefish are cephalopods as are squid’s and octopi, but they are not squid’s.

This. I mean, seriously, what's this man's gripe with beans? What's he got against 'em? 🐾

Birds are the absolute beans! So for communicating with birds B.E.A.N.S is a perfectly suitable acronym! They are smart beans with wings and feathers!

What is the wrong path when you're out on a morning walk?

@@leagarner3675the path you aren’t familiar with. Getting turned around even on paths can be dangerous or at least make your morning walk last a lot longer than you wanted it to

@@Jack_Russell_Brown I'm just curious to know what the man, and the dog, think is the wrong path. It's crucial to the story.

@@Jack_Russell_Brown Interesting that a path takes you over a cliff. Seems like a lot of people fell off of a cliff if there is a path there.

​@@leagarner3675 While that is a funny thought, it doesn't have to be something so dire. It could literally be something like there's a more interesting path intended for the general public on hikes, and then there are the 'wrong' paths which are e.g. old poorly maintained paths, less interesting paths, or paths that lead to effectively a dead end (e.g. a path to a radio tower)

Why would you ride an Elephant if you believed they shouldn't be ridden?

@@dingusmcscrungophd5219 It was a fund-raiser for an elephant charity. And, the gig was two days a week, at the Renaissance Fair, which won't even allow the horses to have bits in their mouths. The worst already happened to that elephant, she saw her family killed in Africa. It would be better if she was never in captivity, and no elephant should be taken from the wild for our amusement. rb

@@TheReubenShow Okay, but you must realise that she had probably been bull-hook trained to 'shake hands'. It doesn't mean she didn't understand that when a human behaved a certain way, or made certain noises, she had to to offer them her trunk. It's just that this may not be the heart warming story you think it is. Personally, I think that Renaissance Fair could have done a hell of a lot better. Raising money for an elephant charity by having people ride traumatised elephants? No. I'm guessing you probably won't be riding any more elephants! Don't feel too bad, though. I was dragged into a 'Sea Life' performance at Disney, once. Hysterical all the way through but I let it happen and it was definitely not an incident that I'm proud of. It's probably too much to hope that the ex MIL learned something about not endorsing the brutalising of animals by the secondary act of brutalising her DIL with tanked cetaceans.

It's a real shame that pretty soon the only elephants alive will be the ones in captivity. Yet, the people complaining about captivity aren't doing anything at all to protect animals in the wild.

Well said, sir.

Every living thing is smart in their own way. The only way to be stupid, in my opinion, is to stay willfully ignorant. Otherwise, everything else is just something you haven’t been taught yet.

​@HavianEla nah... there are definitely some really stupid people. If there exists an Einstein or Hawking, then there must exist outliers on the other side of the average. And I think I may have worked with one or two of them...

@@HavianElaIndeed, in that way humanity is still second to the animal kingdom

And taking naps

Some of my worse arguments was from my mare. We usually found a compromise.

That’s amazing! You must have a great bond with your horse to be able to read them so easily ❤

That's awesome

If they know which button/word they should use to say something it is communication 😂😂😂

@@Catastropheshe I referred to it as communication.

That makes me wonder if they recognise us the same way... Maybe not because we are a recurring visual to them which would explain why they aren't frightened by us but they are by their reflection. It's probably a bit of both.. This is such an interesting topic 😊

Changing the concept of self-realisation is genius, and also proves how short-sighted many previous scientists have been. On top of the fact that my cat often gazes at herself in the mirror - I believe she recognizes herself and sometimes appreciates her own beauty, as I do hers. It's never scared her. I even hold her while looking in the mirror and she usually just seems bored, not confused, upset, anything. And in terms of language, there's an argument to be made that none of us really know what we're saying. If I tell you an apple is jekil in French, and you have no other way of confirming that - okay, jekil it is. Even grammar doesn't need to be that complex, and yet it does appear that animals understand basic grammar concepts. We don't call children dumb when they're learning to speak (let alone a second language) why would we think the same of an animal?

@@aqualms well whether we "know what we are saying" isn't dependent on there being a single objective sound that needs to go with a concept. If I call it an apple and someone else calls it a manzana, we are still both referring to the same object and are both fully aware of what it is we are saying. Our brains are specifically primed to link concepts and sounds and put sounds together to relate complex concepts, and a huge portion of our brain is set aside to doing that and nothing else. This is probably why, even with the insane diversity of human language, we still only use a small minority of the possible grammars that can exist. They are the ones that are the best fit for our highly specialized language hardware. Language isn't just communication, but a very specific kind of highly structured communication that is very much a human specialization. A dog learning to associate individual words with things it likes isn't at all surprising to me. That is a general puzzle that an intelligent generalist can solve. But even something like "why is dog?" Is probably too conceptually and grammatically complicated for an animal that isn't specifically evolved to use language to parse. Even very intelligent animals like great apes have issues with things like tenses and non-concrete concepts. That doesn't mean that they can't think about the past or future or non-concrete things, but their brains aren't primed to pick those things out in communication because they have no need to and so don't have the hardware devoted to it. A dog can almost certainly learn the meaning of the word "dog", but when it comes to the words "why" and "is" it's probably impossible to teach a dog what those words mean, much less what that whole sentence means together, not because they aren't intelligent, but because they don't have the specialist hardware we have to parse that information. It's actually pretty insane that we can extract meaning from the rapid fire grunts that our faces make, and we aren't able to do it just because we are geniuses, but because we devote soooo many resources to being able to effortlessly do that. It's no more surprising to me that a dog can't learn language than it is that a human can't leap into the air and catch a bird in their teeth mid flight. We just don't have the highly specialized hardware in our brains that allow dogs to do that.

Yes exactly! My dog has done something similar too, when we presented him with three treats and told him to “choose.” He always chose the same treat, no matter where we placed it in relation to the other treats. I think it’s actually crazy and quite sad how few people even try this simple “trick” with their dog. Dogs are incredibly smart and capable of learning all kinds of things, if only they have a good teacher. Unfortunately, most humans are not good teachers. :c

@@loverrlee Mine sometimes chooses a different treat when she gets tired of her favourite. She always chooses the same favourite park to go for walks though 😂

@@Stadsjaap Aw cute. Yeah my puppy has a few favorite treats. Mostly I mean that he kept choosing the same treat over and over on the same day, indicating that of the three we presented him with, it was his favorite out of those three. :)

Bro played Minecraft

Nah, bro went outside@@kennyoffhenny

@@aceholepictures you tellin me you can talk to animals? 🤣

read OP@@kennyoffhenny

The hard part is ruling out the possibility you're personifying them and imagining things. And if you think there's no possibility of that, then it's even more likely to be happening.

"I better get to be with them after my death or I am gonna be SO PISSED!" Sooo Well Said !!!

Until I got a dog as an adult (we had many as kids) and attempted to 'teach' him English by speaking in a very simple consistent way, I feel like I completely underestimated their potential to understand it. Maybe our current dog is especially gifted in this regard, but he knows the difference between ' is going on a jog, he'll be back soon" vs " is going in the car, he'll be back later". If he hears "soon" he will start to get excited, whereas if he hears "later" he looks dejected. If we say " and and are all gonna go in the car" he gets INSANELY excited. If I ask "where's your leash?" he will look around for it. He seems to know 'happy', 'sad', 'fight', 'sleepy', and 'excited', but unclear whether this is mostly from our tone of voice. It's really incredible how adept they can be.

Billie speaks inspired me to train my kitten with recordable buttons.... it's all fun and games until you realise you've given your cat the ability to place demands on you... at 3am when they want "playtime", "outside" or they're "hungry".... He doesn't spam the buttons at silly o'clock any more but I'm telling you now... he wakes me up EVERY day pressing, no spamming...the outside button... It's actually really easy to train them to communicate with the obvious buttons like the ones I mentioned... But he really did go through a phase of using them at night 😂. I recommend everyone try to train kittens and puppies with recordable buttons now... It's a real game changer when your cat can reply to you asking "what do you want" with recordable buttons. If not for Billie speaks I wouldn't of ever taught him any words... just commands like most dogs ie... hi five, handshakes, sit, laydown, wait, turn around... "Up" to get him on my shoulders... "kisses on the ear" or "give me love" to get him to headbutt me whilst on my shoulders (rubs himself against my face)... There's a guy who makes cat videos with his trained cat... titled "5 cat tricks in 10 minutes".... I think every new kitten or puppy owner should watch Billie speaks and "Mia the adventure cat" with the tricks training videos. And yes... it's awesome having a trained cat that can communicate on a basic level. Real game changer.

@@DagenhamPot792 i’d still miss meowing tho, i would want my roommate to speak to me :/

No he stopped meowing at doors to get me to open them once he started using the outside button... I much prefer the buttons to him meowing!

@@DagenhamPot792 to each their own :D i loved nothing more then to wake up to the neighbours dog barking

I dunno there.... meowing doesn't get a response from me other then being told off! I really do much prefer he uses the buttons. If I ignore him asking to go outside for example.... he will fall back on meowing to get my attention... which is why I usually give him whatever he's asking for pretty much straight away.... He will spam the hungry button if I dont feed him straight away for example... and yes I really do mean he spams them if I dont react within like 20 seconds... It's alot cuter and less annoying then meowing to me. I might jokingly moan about it... but I ain't ever not training any pets I get in the future. It really is a game changer when you can ask them... what's the matter... "what do you want".... and they can litterally tell you what they want.

That's so interesting I love it. My son is autistic and his issue is human facial and social cues, it's actually really endearing (most of the time lol) and beautiful...he doesn't care who you are or what the situation is he'll talk to someone and want to interact with people on a very equal level it's great that no matter how the person is presenting he'll talk to them like he'd talk to anyone else. I'm so glad the internet is the way it is because it's really opened the door on how amazing autistic people are, it's not of limits for comedy and it's also really respected I think. Thank you for sharing ❤

Not autistic, but faceblind. Since I use body language and facial expressions to help recognize people, I wound up being sensitive to dog and cats body language and facial expressions. I like to watch dog and cat videos and predict what they're going to do well before they do it.

"They wear their thoughts". VERY well said. If humans put as much effort into cueing off pet behavior than they do ours (especially dogs, who evolved to specifically pay attention to human behavioral patterns), as well as at least try to understand how we communicate to dogs non-verbally, they'd find much deeper relationships with them.

I had a cat who was not happy to go to the vet, and then there was a dog loudly barking and the vet was trying to feel his bladder and, unsurprisingly, he took a swipe at the vet. He was hissing and every bit of his being was conveying that he was unhappy and yet the vet was surprised that he got a scratch on his nose and claimed that no other animal had got him like that (in fact they put a note in his chart so any other time we went in to that office, the staff came out with thick leather gloves, which freaked him out even more!). I switched vet offices. I am now wondering if maybe the fact that I'm on the spectrum is why it was so obvious to me and not that the vet was extra oblivious.

100% agree, hadn't thought about that before. Cats are easy to understand, they communicate with their whole bodies. People? Not so much.

Cite your source please.

​​@@leagarner3675Wikipedia has a large number of good sources cited in the "controversy" section of the page on Koko. Start with those. Certainly not all scientists agree, but the weight of the most credible and least biased evidence is not on Koko's side here.

WHY KOKO CAN'T TALK, H. Terrace, Linguistics, 1983. Soup Emporium also has a video that touches on many of the same points, "Why Koko (Probably) Couldn't Talk (Sorry.)" @@leagarner3675

Yes please, where/how did you obtain this information?

@@bigboss-tl2xr Tried to post it, KZfaq decided my comment should be hidden. Didn't even post a link... Look up "Why Koko Can't Talk," a paper from 1983 in Linguistics.

A friend of mine had a poodle that faked being taken away by the wind so they would let him in. With barely a gust outside. Hilarious.

We had a very old English Bulldog. I took him for a walk while my wife shopped...too far for him, I placed him in a cart to get him back to the car. I swear the look he gave me, once he realized he really never had to walk and what a rotten human I was for hiding this tech all his life!😆

Haha yeah he would fake shiver too. Terrible dog, but a hilarious creature.

I had a dog who would fake a limp as well! They would limp around when they wanted attention & then snap out of it whenever they saw a cat or something else more interesting 😂

my standard dachshund does that when it's raining but we want him to go out to do his business. he limps. of that doesnt work, he hides inder the bed. the only way to get him out is open the back door and yell, "squirrel,Gus,get him!!"

Sorry for Mucho Texto if anyone actually reads this. I forgot how much I actually cared about this stuff until I realized I was editing it into paragraphs 💀

That's amazing, thanks for sharing

I thought of that too. So I scrolled down the comments. I’m happy that I’m not the only person to think of that scene. We could definitely do with a few million babel fish to help us humans to communicate better too.

"Don't worry, sir. I'll be very humane." 😂

So it literally trained dogs to bark?

Well what if it started talking about how the housing bubble was gonna burst due to nothing propping up the housing sector?

Hehe

It might have been trained at the Little Shop of Horrors /s

Yup. I mean, even back when there was huge scepticism in the scientific community regarding Petterson's "research" and many appointed serious objective flaws in her methods and that much of her data was heavily manipulated. Nowadays, no serious researcher or scientist remotely consider "Gorilla Sign Language" as something of value. I don't think Dr. Petterson was being malicious, it's just one more case of bad science.

Doggos would be able to communicate if you shape, sent and "logically link" the buttons as what they would communicate to you, and train them from puppies, people forget that communication is two ways, both parties trying to communicate, try to understand what is going on in the other brain, if not you get a one sided conversation with a wall. Technically even lions and gazelles communicate, but it's usually as simple as you are becoming my pray.

Ok I have a question if u say help and expect help and the gorilla signs help becouse she knows it will trigger a help response what's the difference I don't get it he literally sead that they don't know the meaning but they do know the outcome of I pres 5 9 66 and get food whell I also as a human learned in school that line swirel round with tail line dash line circle means help so I am pretty sure that's the same thing every KZfaqr or scientist says it's different that we know meaning and the animal knows only effect but I'm sorry if we ok say a dog is objectively dumber by human standards ok sure let's say it's true but that does not stop us from communicating at all u assume that ok it only understands effect well ok good teach it 900 effects by that point to me atlest that is a regular normal language it's like if some one can't wright whell cool when can still communicate even removing that from the options list the question here is not can we talk it's can we adapt to a more simple way of communicating or a different way to be precise so yea in my eyes koko was talking was doing a good job of it and was doing what she can given her respective capabilities it's like saing a bike is not a motorcycle there for it's useless and incorrect but you still can ride bouth to the same destination having in mind the limitations of there respective limits that does not discredit either for a mode of transportation it just makes one more advance then the other one or a sling shot to a gun I can hit you and hurt you just as bad with one as I can the other if I account for the limitations of each so yea in simple terms I think they can we can and we need to adapt to them not the other way around so ai has to translate us to them and them to us having the limitations again in mind and if it can do that that is communication it is it's like telling your dog to come inside it will not understand u but move to the side and look down left where the door is and the dog will understand ok he she means come in and it will that is not me affecting the dog that is me using the langue of the dog to tell them what I mean u know it's like a Korean and a indian talking they will understand each other eventually it's just human to human blind or soundless it's still human to human that's why it's easier but dog or crow to human needs 50 procent of us 50 of them to make a reliable link otherwise it's me talking to my toaster not gonna happen unless I programe it with a computer to translate what I mean in a ok I get you now machine language same with aliens if we think of talking we need to learn how .

@@MrSparsilis use shorter sentences and more punctuation, got it! MESSAGE RECEIVED!!!

​@@MrSparsilisplease make use of basic grammar

Great comment. Cats talk to us the same as they talk to kittens. And as kittens, to their mom. 💙🥰✌

You're so right! I just never knew how to put that into words. That's how my 8 (soon to be 9 YO) Yorkie and I communicate.😂 We're so good at nonverbal communication, it feels like we're connected to the same wavelength. He does the slow blink thing when it feels like he's trying to process my emotions, he nods and points his head toward items he wants to interact with that he can't reach, signals for water, food, his toy, looks at me deep in the eye, barely blinking when he wants to go to bed. All kinds of stuff. It's like we have our own language! I love dogs so much lol.

I worked at a dog daycare for 7 years. Dogs communicate more with their eyes than people realize. In the pet industry there is something called "whale-eyeing" and that's how dogs communicate to each other that they're uncomfortable and convey to the other dog to give them space. Tense eye muscles is another sign they're attentive and not relaxed etc. Dogs communicate to each other in subtle ways, but once we learn how to read their body language - everything at the dog park makes sense 😂

@@CallTheWeatherCops So true! You can get a fear response or aggressive behavior by staring into their eyes. Though, that's true of many animals. Though not herd animals, they watch hands more. I bet they think we're some kind of cat-like creature, our fingers look like claws? 😁🥰✌

Felidomorphizing sounds so wrong.

I’m not gonna lie, my cat gets pretty annoying with the food related buttons. But we were also able to catch his IBD before it turned into cancer because he kept pressing “belly” “ouch” and “potty” “ouch”. We took him to the vet and they didn’t see anything. But over the next few weeks he stopped eating and he kept pressing those same buttons. I took him back to the vet and told them about him pressing those buttons and not eating, they did a biopsy in his belly and found that he has IBD! Now he’s on medication and a special diet and has so much more energy. I don’t understand why the vet couldn’t see it before, but it’s crazy that he was able to tell us where the ouch was so we could keep looking! That makes it worth all the annoying “spamming” that does indeed drive us a little crazy lol.

WOW that's incredible! @@JessieMassoudi

Sounds exactly right. My dogs are the equivalent of young children, aged maybe 3 or 4 years old. One is happy to be 'free' but only if she knows you are around. The other, if outdoors, prefers the security of being on the lead to being off-lead, but is also not concerned if you are not around. They can both understand a surprising amount of general conversation, but are primarily concerned with conversations around food, play, and going to bed, all of which they love. It really is like having young children around.

3-4 years sounds about right. Terrier (7 yo now) can count, when I hide some treats she goes search, comes when thinks all done... I tell and show with fingers "still three, go" and she comes after three found. If not, she doesn't come and sit and wait for me to acknowledge, she touches my knee with nose so I'll help. Not if she found those last three.

​@@richardhallyburtonAlso, wouldn't have believed it but with terrier we sometimes went mole hunting, she had things like "outside" = stretch, "play" = bring toy, shake, drop near me, "need human help" = very short whine, "food" = watch, turn head. So, I was really surprised one day she came to me, sat and waited until I payed attention. Then asked food, I was about to rise and give but she went and brought toy, I said "ok let's play" and she went away with toy (first time), then came back, stretched and I was "ok let's go"... Guess where we headed ? I said to friend let's bet however much you want we're going to mole place. Friend laughed and said not going to take the bet. Shortest route to 3 kilometers away to mole place. So "play" "outside" "food", so let's go outside play (dig) moles and eat'em. Darn. I've had 6 dogs but yeah, not one did its own sentence before afaik, last 50 years... Mira has about 40 words, can order humans ofc or ask for toy, treat, food etc, picks only treat she wants, otherwise turns head until human finds correct one, or points where a thing is...

I saw a cartoon like that about a "puppy translator." Every voice bubble was filled with "What's that?" "What's that?" "What's that?" "Gotta pee!" "What's that?"

I thought I recognized that voice!

I thought it was someone trying to do his voice

@@shamusmcwright2640 It is. r/wooosh

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Professor Schwartzman and his canine decoder, by Gary Larson =D

I once had a Silky terrier that did the same thing.

Can confirm. You are not making it up. I would like a coke. What kind? Big Red. 😂😂😂

What if you want is an actual Coca-Cola? It could devolve into an infinite loop: "What would you like?" "A Coke." "What kind?" "A Coke." "Yes, but what kind of Coke?" "A ... Coke?"

@@johnopalko5223 😂 Na. They get it. I want a coke. What kind? A coke. Ok. Could make for a great who’s on first type skit. 😂

Wouldn't there still be legal problems if at a restaurant someone asked for a Coke of the Pepsi variety?

@@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648 It's a cultural thing down there... I don't really see how there would be a legal issue from someone asking for something using an odd term and the person hearing understanding what they meant and responding accordingly. They just use "Coke" as a generic term for a "soda"... or "pop" as people here in Ohio say, lol.

I was thinking the same thing 😊

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Okay, now there's an image running in my head of Joe shirtless and jacked-up like James McAvoy, telling Anya Taylor Joy that they're blessed 😄

HaHa!! This was by far the best skit he's done so far.

Or else.