Alexis Devine of Washington has built a massive social following of over eight million, but the fans don’t really belong to her. They belong to her pets, namely her dog Bunny, who entertains them with incredible, hilarious feats of intelligence that regularly go viral to the tune of tens of millions of views.

Bunny’s most famous feat? Using “talking buttons” to ask for what she wants and, sometimes, to ask much bigger questions.

In one famous viral video, Bunny uses her buttons to tell Alexis: “Mad. Ouch. Stranger. Paw.” She then walks over and hands Alexis her paw, allowing Alexis to discover a sharp foxtail sticking out of it. The interspecies communication on display in the video blew people’s minds.

In another video, Bunny asks something a little more philosophical: “Why forget?” After Alexis explains the limits of short- and long-term memory, as best she can, Bunny, seemingly satisfied, responds, “Thank you.”

You have to see it in action to truly believe it.

Talking buttons for pets are now in millions of households

@whataboutbunny Check your doggy’s paws if you live in an area with foxtail #ouchie #talkingdog #cutedog #communication #doggyanthem ♬ original sound – I am Bunny

Check your doggy’s paws if you live in an area with foxtail #ouchie #talkingdog #cutedog #communication #doggyanthem ♬ original sound – I am Bunny

Many viewers might not realize it, but the buttons Alexis and Bunny use aren’t custom-built or exclusive to master trainers.

Anyone can buy them from companies like FluentPet, which sells starter kits and instructions. Alexis says she had almost no experience training animals before she started using buttons with Bunny around the start of the pandemic. All she knew was that she wanted to have a lot of trust and communication with her dog.

“My goal before bringing Bunny home was to have this sort of Lassie-esque relationship. I wanted the best communication possible and the closest relationship,” Alexis tells Upworthy. “And so I figured I’d give buttons a shot.”

Bunny started with just one button: “Outside.” Alexis would press the button herself every time she took Bunny out. Alexis noted that, after a few weeks of repetition, Bunny started pressing the button on her own to request to go outside.

From there, the pair began adding more buttons.

“Once Bunny understood that she could control outcomes in her world by pressing the buttons, every time I put down a new button, she would very quickly........

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