Meet Bunny, The Talking Dog That TikTok Is Obsessed With
This dog has a bigger vocabulary than most toddlers!
Bunny the Sheepadoodle may seem like an ordinary dog but there's one major difference. She can talk...sort of!
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Oh, and she has almost five million followers on TikTok.
Over the past year, Bunny's owner Alexis Devine has been teaching her to use an intricate system of buttons with words or phrases to communicate — and it's working!
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Bunny now has over 70 buttons with words like "outside," "beach," "mom," and "water" organized into clusters of related phrases.
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“My theory is that she memorizes their place like a keyboard. Like, you know, pianists can play amazing music without having to look at keys — similar to that. It’s like muscle memory," Alexis told The News Tribune.
Alexis originally got the idea to teach Bunny from a speech-language pathologist named Christina Hunger who had taught her own dog to "speak" in five word sentences.
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Now Bunny is part of a research study at the Comparative Cognition Lab at the University of California, San Diego which aims to understand how dogs understand language. “It’s actually an open study. So anyone who’s trying to teach their animal to communicate can join and contribute data,” Alexis explained.
Bunny's first word was "outside," which was placed on a button by the door and pressed by Alexis anytime they went out.

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"Through a series on thousands of tiny reinforcements, she learns the meaning of each button," Alexis told Mashable.

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And it's led to the creation of her own meme: Bunny's Existential Crisis.
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As for what's next for Bunny? Perhaps levitation:
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