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My dog is 4 1/2 years old, and I was afraid at her age that I wouldn’t be able to teach her to use the buttons. However, she started using her paw to touch the button first day. The first button I worked on was treat. I thought it would be the easiest one to teach her. She absolutely loves her treat button. The next button I added is scratches. It didn’t take her long to pick that button up as well. Her favorite button is still treats. Before I started training her I did go on the website and watch videos on how to get started. I would encourage everyone to do this because it does help.
We’ve started with the treat button and he knows that the button will lead to treats so he strokes it but can’t put enough pressure on it to activate the button. We’ve tried to add a chair pad on top to add a bit of weight to make it easier but he doesn’t like that. Not too sure what else to do
Store owner replied:
Hi Bhavna. Paw Target Training can often help learners to press the Buttons. I see that you are an Academy subscriber. Please visit the FluentPet Community and feel free to post your question there, take the FP101 and FP102 self-paced courses, participate in our mentorship calls and Bootcamps, or watch the recordings to the events you RSVPed to that are posted after the events have ended. Enjoy your Button journey—and all the moments and connections it brings.
He took 4 days. In the video the first didn’t activate but I pushed want and he pushed Kirschy and treat. A few of my buttons stopped working almost immediately though 😞
I absolutely love the products! Unfortunately, accessibility from Austria is quite limited, as most products have to be ordered from the US. This comes with significantly higher costs due to shipping, taxes, and import fees, which makes ordering much more expensive for European customers.
Store owner replied:
Hi Anna. Over the years, we’ve continued to evolve how we get our products into the hands of our EU customers while doing our best to keep shipping costs as low as possible. Currently, our focus now is on making direct shipping from our US warehouse as affordable as possible. To help offset landed costs — including product pricing, VAT, and international shipping fees — we have significantly reduced pricing across our products for our international customers.
2 cats: one indifferent to food motivation, the other very good motivated. Tutorial videos accessed with purchase are very helpful. After approx 3-4 weeks I am getting inconsistent results with the 'treat button' with food motivated cat. Some days I think it has clicked and she gets it, then we seem to back slide and she doesn't quite understand the gist. She is very excited about the button area and the times I have routinely done some training. No spontaneous presses yet, but yes some days good success in pressing the treat button. I think I have to pay more money for the next round of tutorial videos and check with the community for similar situations and trouble shooting.
My cat, Goatman, is absolutely in love with his buttons!! Before adding buttons, I had already taught him to respond yes and no by tapping my left or right hand. This seemed to help a lot and he took to the buttons right away!! Now he wakes me up every morning saying something new!
The buttons are easy to set up, & easy to record. My newly adopted 1- year old kitty was tapping the button for a treat on her second day of training! It took her another day or two to actually activate the buttons. She’s had them five days and already uses the first three buttons for Treat, Play, & Pets. I’m so proud of her!
As Bijou's handler, I can honestly say that FluentPet buttons have been one of the best investments I've made for her. Watching her go from learning her first word to building a vocabulary she uses every day has been incredible.
Bijou is a working service dog, and while her buttons aren't part of her trained service tasks, they have given us an entirely new way to communicate at home. She uses them to ask for what she wants, and she'll often "talk" about something we've already done, almost like she's telling me about her day. Each new word she learns gives me another glimpse into her personality and the way she thinks.
The buttons are sturdy, easy for her to press with confidence, and have held up well to daily use. We use the FluentPet Connect buttons, so I can easily record and update the words in my own voice as Bijou learns new vocabulary. The FluentPet learning resources have also been helpful, providing practical guidance for introducing new words at a pace that keeps learning fun and successful.
One of the greatest gifts these buttons have given us is a stronger bond. Being able to better understand what Bijou is trying to communicate has made our relationship even more meaningful, and it's been amazing to watch her confidence grow as her vocabulary expands.
If you're willing to be patient, stay consistent, and celebrate the small victories, FluentPet buttons can become an amazing communication tool for both you and your dog. I highly recommend them.
We started using buttons with my pup when she was 10 weeks old, and she took to it incredibly quickly! It’s been 3.5 years and she’s a pro. This last round I added EIGHTEEN new buttons (all familiar words) and she began using them the same day. Every time we add more she seems to do a skills leap, and gets creative with new combinations to express things that aren’t represented by a specific button.
We’re about to bring a new puppy home and look forward to starting her tiny board, too!
I’m glad I decided to go with the newest buttons for my last order. I’d considered it before but hesitated with the extra cost, however I wish I’d made the switch with my previous purchase because the sound quality is SO much better. I’ll be gradually replacing her original and speaker buttons to the connect line over time for sure.
I actually bought this set with a cat named Strange in mind. Kreatur watched the training sessions for a couple of days, then pushed his way in and took over. He now knows what "school" (training time) is, and saying "get in your spot" prompts him to sit in front of his buttons. He has learned the buttons for "chick-chicks" (treats), "love you," "Kreatur" (himself), "Momma" (me), and "Dad" (my husband).
The entire process has blown my mind. He requests treats for the other cats by pressing the button while staring at the other cats. If I make him answer questions before treats, he presses the "Dad" button while giving me a side-eye. When I hold up a new button and tell him "new school word" he becomes visibly excited.
My favorite moment so far has to be the introduction of the "love you" button. The reason is that when I give any affection to my cats, I have always accompanied pets, scratches, and snuggles with saying "Love you-love you!" I recorded the button with me saying "love you" once. Kreatur hits the button twice every time he uses it.
Pressing her first word independently took *nine* months--but our time was well-spent: full of enrichment, bonding activities and fun (my older learner loved those months of learning sessions, lots of purring and excitement). Now, less than two months after her first independent press, G has 28 buttons and wants more, and our relationship has evolved in unexpected and amazing ways. I can't imagine our lives without words.
Midway through week 3.
I like the Connect because I want the cats to have doorbells that they can use (cat door isn't practical where I live.) As an added bonus, my old home, which doesn't have doorbells, now has ones that all mammals can use! And I get a notification on my phone. VERY handy.
My cat is so engaged with these buttons. She uses them daily and they've really helped with reducing frustration led behaviour (like biting, chewing cords etc). She's just started combining words for new meanings and it's amazing to watch the process.
This is our third purchase from Fluentpet. I had some issues with this order, but I was able to get support from the help team.
The community element is a real highlight and not something I've seen offered with other button brands. I've attended various of the live classes/discussions and there are always great insights.
Initially, I was worried about her chewing/scratching the hextiles but since we've added them with this order, we've had no issues. Probably because the buttons already had a lot of value to her. She loves lying on/next to the tiles.
Great quality, looks fantastic, easy to use, lots of clear instructions and helpful hints, I can hear it from the other room. All my concerns have been met. Highly recommend. We are loving our daily 5mins training, especially as the recommended first word for us was “treat”. Thank you!!
We got us a new boxer puppy & one of my coworkers suggested I get him the buttons because of how smart he already was at 8 weeks (we share the Bunny videos we find to each other all the time) so I said why not try it, if not then oh well. Well our new puppy took to them very well. I was surprised. The video I shared with this is actually of him going from the kitchen to the living room to tell his older brother “no” because he went to his own and got his carrot toy and when he brought it in the kitchen his older brother took it from him and he went to tell him “no”. You can see towards the end his brother with the carrot. He will also tell his brother “no” when he misses the pee pad and get it in the floor. He lets us know when he is hungry and thirsty. We added the love you button recently and he presses it now too. The only one he rarely presses is the potty button to go outside lol but he has done so well I decided to just get the whole other system with the app. We can’t wait to get it and move these buttons into the bedroom or kitchen.
My little guy has really taken to the fluent pet buttons. I'm already looking forward to getting more and expanding his vocabulary. Id not seen dogs as tiny as him using them, so I was worried he might not manage. But so far, so great 😃👍
We have enjoyed teaching our dogs how to talk using buttons. We made assumptions about what they wanted or how they felt before buttons and the buttons have helped us correct our misunderstandings. For example, my one dog never seemed to want to play with us. But she doesn't like playing with toys; she likes wrestling. My other dog never seemed to want to cuddle on the couch with us; but it turns out, she has opinions about where she sits and who sits next to her. They also have opinions about which food they want. (Insect is a favorite!)
The buttons have helped us understand how to care for our animals better. The buttons have also reduced their anxiety about not being understood.
Buttercup has come a long way in 5 months but in the past 2 has generalized the buttons as a way to get our attention even if we are not at home. We forgot to latch her crate and she went looking for us. The course encouraged me to work more with her and the other dogs.
My 1-year old bernedoodle, Lucy, & I are very excited to be starting our FluentPet journey. Lucy is very expressive and communicative in her body language, so we’re hoping this helps her better express what she wants when the underlying message behind the intense stares is not as clear. She certainly knows words and concepts and is now starting to pay a little more attention to buttons. With time, modeling, and patience we hope that button pressing is next!
The kit arrives with plenty of set up info, but I found it easy to figure out how to fit the buttons into the hextiles & how to record the audio. After a couple tries, I got the recording to sound how I liked it, and we were off to training.
Holly is in her first 3 weeks with the button board. She has pressed the "treat" button 6 times so far, over the course of the 4 most recent training times. She's fond of the buttons & shows responsiveness to the meaning of each (treat, pets, and play). She seems to be well on track for learning to use buttons. So far, she presses while we're training; I think it'll be a little while before she presses a button to ask for something on her own.
My dog, Jet, starting learning to communicate with buttons as a puppy, but her lack of attention span made it take 10 months before she really started using them regularly. She uses one to three buttons in series to convey her wants. Lately, I added buttons and she started using them spontaneously! She is very liberal with “please” whenever she wants something, e.g., “food please”, “outside please”, “scritches please”. We’re having a lot of fun, and her behavior is very manageable now that we communicate better.
These are so freaking cool and did not go how I thought it would at all… (there is a review after the context I realized how long that is)
Context / what names mean: (you can skip this part if you want)
We = my family
Me/I’m/I = I am the one who is writing this and who bought the buttons and I train the dogs. I’m 13+
Dogs⬇️
Tora is 4.5 years old and she is a purebred Norwegian elkhound (AKA very smart and stubborn) Bought her from a good breeder.
Pongo is 3 years old and his is a mutt and is mix of 53% Chihuahua,16% Boston Terrier, 7% Dachshund, 6% Japanese Chin and 4% Brittany (AKA he is not smart, is very energetic and has the Chihuahua attitude) He is a rescue.
The words I started with⬇️ (Bought the buttons 2 weeks ago from writing this)
Outside. Play. Treats. eat. Soon. Pets. Later. water. All done. No. Yes. Recently added (like a few days ago) Tora.
Back to the actual review:⬇️
So I bought these attended for Tora but she has not used them at all and when she has she scratches the buttons out of the mat (working on her being more gentle with them) but Pongo is the one that has been using them and really likes them, we never thought he would ever use the buttons because he is dumb and he has never been really vocal unlike Tora who is very vocal. I started with 11 buttons and recently added one more (as seen in the context section). he has learned all the words on the soundboard in 2 weeks, except I think he’s confused about soon,later and all done since he’s been pressing those randomly. He has said a few sentences (at least I think) he has said “Tora treats” so they both got treats, a few minutes before that he kept pressing treats and only he got treats so I think he saw how Tora was getting upset that she wasn’t getting treats too… so he pressed the buttons for her (It was so cute). And another time he said “Tora play” and started to play with Tora. Pongo was rough with the buttons at first but now he is more gentle, but a few times he has scratched at the button and it has not activated. I can’t wait for what the future holds. hopefully he will have more buttons in a few months and we are planning on buying more buttons in a few weeks. How I found this brand was through Instagram/Facebook but the accounts were Elsie wants and flounder the cat.
how I “trained” them to use the buttons. I have not used any of the free camp stuff mainly because I forgot about it, but I did not have the soundboard connected until like a week ago. I had all the buttons where the things were at and pressed them before doing that thing
Tips⬇️
If you do not like your voice on the buttons, you can choose a voice from CapCut (I use “serious female”).
I do not recommend using markers on the stickers the words will start coming off. I recommend using a label maker if you have one.
Highly recommend this brand. will be switching to the connect buttons eventually
Archer has been using buttons for about 3 years now and this was a vocab expansion. Excited to see what else he will talk about! He talked to me everyday and we have loved the FluentPet buttons for making this experience possible.
It actually took about 3 months until our first presses...but that was 2 years ago and Misty is doing great at 26 buttons. The bootcamp was a big help in getting her going. Her favorite button is Noise and her favorite button conbination is Dinner Later...she is a planner.
The buttons have been so much fun. My dog isn’t a huge “talker” but while I was out of town and my in laws were watching him, he used the buttons everyday!!! It was a great way for him to communicate to them who don’t know his routines.
I’ve been working with my learner (Omen, cat, 4) for just over a month now! She’s picked up on using the buttons fairly quickly and now frequently requests “play” and “treat.” She’s just begun using two buttons together to request her new favorite game! I’ll have to work on giving her more words soon….
I like the vibrancy of the blue tile as it provides a nice contrast for cat vision. The tiles are very tempting for my cat to chew and scratch though and I have had to shoo him away from the board when he does that. The edge pieces have helped but not eradicated the problem.
Store owner replied:
If you haven't already, be sure to join the FluentPet Community. There you will find all of FluentPet's educational resources to assist with training. Please also feel free to post your question on how to prevent a learner from chewing on the HexTiles. Other Button Teachers in the community are happy to help!
We love these so much that we have two sets! The idea was geared toward one cat but three others joined in. So with their different interests we had to expand. It's been a big learning curve for our whole house but we're all committed and are excited for the journey!
If your learner is a cat definitely get these. When cats get interested in an item they will bite it, scratch it and roll in it so these help the textiles stay together and not be ripped apart. I am happy I thought ahead and got these with my first order.
We are loving them!!!! I have four cats and Mia was chosen as the main learner because she showed interest right away after the first week she was laying on the buttons and now she’s making independent presses after I attended a modeling class. We started on 2/21/26 so we are very new and I am soo excited to see how much more she wants to learn and if my other gremlins will like to join her.
Hi! the training is going really well and my little girl is asking for treat basically everyday now. Just one thing, one of the buttons that came in the box does not work, I also tried to change the battery but I'm unable to record anything.
Store owner replied:
Hi Lorenzo. We're so glad to hear that your training is going well! For the Button that is not working, please email info@fluent.pet and our Customer Support Team will be happy to help!
I was watching videos of cats pressing buttons and noticed my cat was watching along with me. I started training him to do tricks like high five and touch, moving to a toy button that I had laying around. He would touch it while I held it to get a treat, then I put the button on the floor and got him to touch it for a treat. Then getting him to put weight on the button to activate it by pressing it for him, moving on to pushing his paw down. It took about a week for him to learn he could press it down himself.
Once I got my first 12 buttons for him, he knew what to do, as I chose words that I used often with him, such as play, pets, scritches, Mum, and Love you. He now uses 18 buttons and has space for more! It's so rewarding to expand his world with communication, and taking the guess work out of his body language. He's a happier cat, and when he presses "Mum, Love You" while squinting his eyes at me, it's the greatest feeling ever.
Archie is usiing 7 buttons at this time. The biggest obstacle was combining the hextiles I wish I started that way….he was doing really well well with them separate but once it was time to combine them I felt like he had to relearn everything and it was really confusing for him.
We had issues with the foam edge pieces -- both dogs and cats would pull them off and we have a couple of chewers that loved foam. Yikes! I thought we would have to reinvent our board using other materials. The first time I saw these I knew they were the solution to my problem! These hard plastic frame pieces snap together tightly, leaving no gaps for chewers to get hold of foam tiles. They also hold the board together as a unit. I highly recommend this product!
Store owner replied:
Hi Jeanne. Outside can be a good word to start with, but perhaps not the word that gets your Learner motivated to press. If you haven't already, please join the free Button Bootcamp that is included with your purchase. Need help registering? Just email info@fluent.pet and our customer support team will be happy to assist!
