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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Watch this chatty dog use a custom soundboard to talk

This canine is doggone smart.

Eighteen-month-old Stella already knows 29 words — and she is even stringing them into sentences.

Speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger decided to combine her love for her Catahoula and Blue Heeler mix and her passion for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices by finding a way to give her dog a voice, People first reported.

To do this, the 26-year-old San Diegan set up a button board when Stella was 8 weeks old for the pooch to interact with and express herself. When pressed, the buttons play recordings of words like “beach,” “ball” and “happy.”

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, 29 words...that's more than most Slumsbury residents these days.

Anonymous said...

There's a board for cats, too. There are three buttons: You may touch me until I tire of you; where is my food, and; I have no further need of you, you may go.

Anonymous said...

Wow! Check out her instagram. It’s amazing to see the dog communicating with her.