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The Sunday Read: ‘Do Our Dogs Have Something to Tell the World?’

The Sunday Read: ‘Do Our Dogs Have Something to Tell the World?’

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As soon as Camille Bromley got Ellie, a black-eyed, bat-eared
German shepherd puppy, she trained her to be a good dog. And so
she was. Two years on, Ms. Bromley started to think she was a
little too obedient. Ellie was hesitant, whining when she
was unsure of herself, in a way that clashed with her big muscles
and pointy canines.

The solution, maybe, was buttons. Around this time, Ms. Bromley
started to see dogs on social media seeming to express their
desires by the most absurdly simple, low-tech means possible:
stepping on multicolored plastic buttons on the floor, each disc
emitting a word when the dog pressed it. Ms. Bromley scrolled
through videos on her phone of dogs pawing FOOD and MORE and NOW,
sometimes in that order.

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