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It's worth being skeptical, and a lot of the Instagram/YouTube animals that "speak" clearly do nowhere as well as their owners suggest.

But look at more of Bunny's videos. Some of the interpretations are fanciful (a pet peeve of mine is the "love you" interactions where there's little reason to think the "love you" means more than "I want attention"), but there are enough of fairly complex interactions that I think it's unreasonable to dismiss it entirely.

Or even worse, I'd like to at least see the buttons get jumbled up, and the dog realise it's wrong and find the new location of what it wants to say.

And then it would still suffer from potential human over-interpretation, finding meaning where there isn't, as described in the Koko video you linked.

This video is pretty convincing: https://youtu.be/6MMGmRVal6M