3. TIL about Stella, a dog who communicates with her owners using a sound board pre...

TIL about Stella, a dog who communicates with her owners using a sound board preprogrammed with her favourite words. Recently her “beach” button broke, so she instead used the buttons for “water” “outside” and “help” to communicate that she wanted to press the beach button and couldn’t.

I feel like everyone who is trying to say, "buh dogs no understand language like human," don't realize how simple humans really are, or just how closely related we are to animals. We obviously have more complex ideas and understanding than a lot of animals, but at the end of the day, humans are just as animal as any of the animal kingdom. Language at its core is very simple, and ALL animals communicate in some fashion, as well as already have ideas in their own way. Is it really that crazy to think that the dog is essentially "translating" from its dog language to a very basic English? Dogs are already known to do this with "sit," "speak," etc., so how is this any different?

Language at its most basic is just ideas with associations. It doesn't have to be as complex as we humans have made it to be language.

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