A Twitch streamer has taught her dog how to press a button to heal her teammates in Marvel Rivals, and now I’m wondering if this is something we can teach actual human players, too.
Streamer poopernoodle and her dog, a long-haired dachshund named Pea, recently went viral after the UK-based content creator uploaded a clip from one of her latest streams. Pea features heavily in poopernoodle’s content, a near-constant livestream presence in a doggy bed in the background (or wearing a lobster costume), but this new Pea era is a special one. Poopernoodle revealed she had rigged a button attached to her PC that Pea could press with her paw.
this is who is healing you in ranked btw: pic.twitter.com/9BAttzOPev
— poopernoodle (@poopernoodle) November 22, 2025
“Pea, can you press the button?” poopernoodle asks, a treat held aloft. Pea obliges, and a star is born. Every time Pea is asked to press the button, she does so and gets a delicious reward for it. The fact that she does all of this while half tucked under a heart-patterned blanket makes this even more precious.
They jump into an actual game, and Pea occasionally presses the button without being prompted, which is clearly the dachshund showing some healer initiative. Poopernoodle gave Pea a treat nearly every time she performed the button press, which could make high-level gameplay a bit difficult, but I will lose every competitive game if it means Pea is on my squad.
“This is such a special moment,” Poopernoodle says. The game ends, and she announces they’ve done 892 healing. Now, that isn’t great, but I’m going to give Pea the benefit of the doubt and some credit: she’s at least healing when asked, which is already leaps and bounds beyond your average Rivals healer. Maybe if we offered people treats for helping out their team, I wouldn’t have rage-quit Marvel Rivals months ago after the pressures of competitive play ruined my entire experience!
Update 11/25/25 2:20 p.m. ET: Pea’s owner speaks!
Pea is four years old and I bought her from an ethical dachshund breeder here in the UK. I spent all the money I had saved from streaming for three years on her! […] The button trick is something I taught her earlier this year but I taught her how to ring a bell for a treat, I just applied it to a keyboard button literally that day on stream and she is a very clever girl so she picked up on it straight away. She loves hanging out with me on stream hence the desk bed! It started off last year as she wanted to be on my lap but it wasn’t enough so I let her sit on my desk while I streamed but she would constantly nudge my hand for attention so I ended up getting a cat desk bed for her to sit in instead, the stream loved it and I recently upgraded her to a bigger custom built bed that you see in the video of her playing Marvel Rivals! [Pea] is amazing I love her so much, I’m one of those annoying people that will talk about their dog all day long so it’s kind of perfect that other people love her so much too!!
