Name: IS BUNNY DEPRESSED?! Q&A #1 | What About Bunny
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Okay y'all, we're gonna do a little Q&A. So here are some questions I got this week.

We're gonna tackle them now. Boo! What's Bunny's social life like?

Adverbs of degree

Well, Bunny's social life is a lot like mine. Non-existent. I don't know if you know this or not, but a lot of dogs are quite social through adolescence and then they sort of become a little bit more selective after that and Bunny is no exception. She had some friends down at the beach when she was younger and as they all sort of grew up they tended not to be as interested in playing with each other anymore. So she does have some dogs that she'll tolerate like

Tenrec and Otter, but she doesn't really have much of a social life outside of that. It takes a tremendous amount of time and effort to bring another dog into her circle, which we have done with Ten and Otter, but still, you know, when it's Bunny's resting time and humans or dogs, see they're having a moment right now. Bunny's like, why are you breathing, Tenrec? And Tenrec's like, why are you yelling at me for breathing? I mean, no, Bunny, do you want to come up on the couch?

You can come hang out too. Would that make it easier for you? Do you want to come up here?

Oh, Tanny Bear. Ten says, no thank you. What was I saying? Oh yeah, so we're both solitary creatures. And that's that. So not much social life to speak of and that is just fine. We enjoy our alone time. We enjoy our enrichment time and our long walks in the wilderness and that's how we are. What does Bunny think of Johnny? She loves him. She adores Johnny. Bunny has a small circle of humans that she absolutely adores. Johnny is one of them. She always does roo-roos for him. She's so excited when he comes out to the cabin. She just adores him and she definitely has like a different relationship with Johnny than she does with me. It's not good or bad, better or worse. It's just different. I love that dogs can have such unique and individual relationships with different people in their lives. Super cool. She also really likes to call him out when he poops. Hasn't done that recently, but that was definitely a phase when she was in early adolescence. Like every time he went to the bathroom. So that's fun. So that's what Bunny thinks of Johnny. Yeah, okay, next question. Let's see here. What does your typical day look like at the cabin? All right, so we, well this isn't how I would choose to wake up, but it's just kind of what happens. I usually wake up at around five because one of the dogs is like, I gotta do something or drink something or just want to like put my tongue in your nostril. So that's around five and then I try and go back to sleep until like, I don't know, maybe six. But then we get up at six and I have a couple of cups of coffee and then we go for a little walk or a big walk. Sometimes it's a hike. Right now I'm really, really busy so it's like a shorter walk, but not short for like 45 minutes or something. Maybe we'll play outside for a little while and then I come back in and they're all ready to like sleep for several more hours and I get to do a bunch of work. Usually I have several meetings and then maybe I'll record some content or like do some writing or you know other types of work.

And then like a little lunch time and we'll go outside and we'll play or we'll just like wander around a little bit more and then usually some more meetings. I'm pretty stacked right now with business-y stuff and then we'll do training maybe with all three but usually just with like one or two and just like short little training sessions. I'm working on learner-centered training protocols right now which are really fun and really empowering and really in line with my ethics so I'm loving that. And somewhere in there I'll eat hopefully if I don't forget and oh hello my little friend oh hello oh hello um and plenty of this throughout the day of course um and then what oh oh oh oh oh my goodness you're so cute oh buddy's getting mad he's moving too much he's moving too much and otter's getting jealous uh hi buddy oh hi sweet boy and then I usually if it's like warm and not too windy I'll usually go outside and do some work and uh come back inside and you know dinner at some point for all of us and chewies and enrichment and then by like eight usually uh I'm upstairs and I'm getting ready to be all cozy maybe I like watch a movie or something and eat some popcorn and go to bed that's it. Okay next question is what were some of the uh you know what I wrote these down from the internet and I can't even read them my handwriting is that bad what were some of the parts phases bunny went through as she was learning buttons yeah buns I'm gonna need you to chill please baby I know it's so hard come here come get some scratches so some of the phases that bunny went through as she was learning buttons there was a sort of acquisition phase where she was learning what what buttons meant that buttons meant that she could control my behavior she could make the monkey do things right so there was that phase and then once she got that her learning uh really accelerated to a point um at about like it must have been like 20 buttons 16 to 20 buttons uh she sort of plateaued and I think that's because they were all arranged in like this rectangular grid and so she would sort of use the buttons on the outside but didn't really explore much past that and that's around when I came into contact with

Leo Trottier who is a cognitive scientist and he was developing a canine specific AIC device and looking for beta testers and I was like yes I want some of these decisions to be informed by science I have no idea what I'm doing so we started working together you know it was all iterative design so I was using the very first version of the product and then uh scaffolded towards you know better and better iterations of the product product when I moved those buttons to the hex tiles there was a little bit of like a oh my god what's happening now with bunny where she um all she said for like a week was want where mad all done want where mad all done so she learned where those buttons were on her new configuration and was using them to say I want the old configuration back but she very quickly adapted and then her learning sort of skyrocketed and I presume that's because um the hex tiles are really meant to give as many context cues as possible to be able to like compartmentalize the words and the categories because they're all categorized uh based on the

Edith Fitzgerald Fitzgerald key anyways so there was that phase and then um somewhere in there maybe like concurrent with all that there was like an exploration phase where she was sort of babbling a lot she would just be like pressing buttons and like hearing the sound and then pressing a different button and then pressing them in different combinations and looking at me and sort of watching to see what I would do like what does this combination make the monkey do what does this combination make mom do and that was a really really fun process to watch because I was sort of constantly confused because nothing she was saying was making sense but it was very very uh communicatively intentional right she would like go to the board she would look at me wait for eye contact and then she would like press a combination of buttons and sort of look up and smile and be like oh now what now what happens um so that was really cool and then we sort of plateaued for a while again I think that was uh in part due to me because I got really really busy with other stuff so I wasn't able to spend as much time modeling um okay we good are we good little buddy don't eat the questions don't eat the questions oh and another times you know maybe she's having a really bad stomach ache for a week because we know that she's got um you know gastrointestinal challenges so yeah when she's not feeling well she tends to use them less or when she is getting a ton of other enrichment and um exercise and or you know play or when we're just doing other things uh she sleeps a lot more and as she's aged she's becoming much much lazier girl basically all she wants to do is snooze and she's like one of those people that doesn't want to go to the gym but then goes to the gym and is like really thankful afterwards like I'll say hey you want to go for a walk and um she'll be like no not really and then she'll come for a walk sort of regrettably but then afterwards she's so happy and she's like so relaxed so anyways those are the button phases that she's gone through and right now we're in a phase where I kind of want to reorganize her board a little bit again and make it make more sense for her and for me and maybe add some new relevant words now that we're uh at the cabin a lot like I recently added fire and wind because it gets real windy here and I'm excited to add a snow button because we're gonna get a ton of snow in the winter which is gonna be so fun. Tenrec doesn't love snow because he just like and then is like under it all right that's enough questions for today um more later okay bye you know the drill like share subscribe and we'll see you next time