My Random Hot Dog

[DerAlte]

Do dogs talk? What?

Tests over the years show that when dogs bark, they are often trying to mouth words that their mouths are not shaped to mouth. So, we don't understand them.

The test in the OP shows how researchers got around this problem.

That's probably what all animals try to do.

[Nowak]

In my opinion, yes, dogs love their owner unconditionally, they are wonderful

agree with you, in front of my house, have it a dog always guarding and this animal is very loyal.

[BADecker]

Dogs are good pets. They seem to have friendly 'feelings' for their masters. But the OP shows that we are finging out that dogs have other reasons for doing what looks like emotions.

Keep treating your dog as though it has emotions. Just remember that it may be AI programmed by nature (God) to only look that way.

[Beyza Fatima]

People have known that dogs talk for a long time. the thing that is finally being settled is that dogs actually mean what they say... that things that they say are not simply random. And, what is maybe the biggest thing that humans are finding out? That dogs don't really love their owners like they thought their dogs did. Dogs are just living life.


Dogs TALK with humans using soundboards for first time... and it's what they DIDN'T say that's depressing


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14177583/Dogs-TALK-humans-using-soundboards-study.html?ico=article_preview_xp_mobile
Dogs are capable of forming two-word combinations when using a soundboard to communicate with humans, a groundbreaking study has found.

In the last few years, thousands of dogs have been trained to use soundboards with buttons that can be pressed to produce human words or phrases.

Some have even become social media sensations, like the TikTok famous sheepadoodle Bunny.

But scientists still weren't sure whether these 'talking' dogs were pressing buttons randomly, or deliberately.

Now, a new analysis has revealed that the dogs' behavior cannot be explained by random pressing, and that certain two-button combinations appear too often to be the result of random chance, the study states.

The researchers found that the most commonly used buttons were related to the dogs' essential needs, such as 'outside,' 'treat,' 'play' and 'potty.'

Combinations like 'outside' + 'potty' or 'food' + 'water' also occurred too frequently to be accidental, and were used in meaningful ways.

What's more, the researchers identified differences between the dogs' button pressing behavior and that of their owners.

For example, buttons like 'I love you' were pressed far less frequently by dogs than by their humans, suggesting that dogs are not imitating their owners' presses. This will be a blow to owners who believe the feelings of utter devotion are mutual.
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for me, especially since I have a pet dog and yes, dog is pet with loyal to owner