FluentPet Speak Up Key Vocab Kit with Clearer Upward-Facing Sound - 12 Recordable Buttons for Dogs & 6 Neutral HexTiles | Dog & Cat Communication Buttons Set | with Batteries

I wish these had been invented decades ago--I wonder what my other wonderful dogs might have said to me. The product is good quality and there is ample customer support. I had one button go flat (out of several packages of these I've purchased) and the seller promptly sent me several new batteries for it, free of charge. My boy races for his buttons first thing every morning and starts communicating. It's a lot of fun for both of us. And it can be eye-opening at times: I had been working at the computer for a while when I suddenly heard "Mom. All done. Play." Need I say more?

I purchased both starter sets from Amazon and it was less expensive here, than on the FP website. They work fine... but you really need to use the buttons as indicated in order to get your puppy to use them. We started out well, but are flailing a bit now. The buttons respond with a very light tough, so very easy to use. I like the colors of the pads. However, I do dread when all the batteries die (probably all at once) later on down the road.

I’ve ordered two packs over a few years. They work great but each pack had one button that simply didn’t work. Overall these have been good.

They arrived just as pictured in the Amazon product listing. The package included stickers, a screwdriver for the battery area, the buttons, the foam mats to put the buttons in, instructions, and a step by step guide to button teaching. Upon receiving the buttons, 2 of them didn’t work. I emailed the company and they were fast with a response. Turns out the batteries just got loose during shipping and after taking them out and putting them back in, the 2 buttons work now. The buttons are loud as long as you aren’t whispering or low voiced when talking into them, they’re easy to set up and easy for my dog to press.

Update: It sucks that you can't really know how good a product is until you've used it for a while, and by then it's too late to return. Ultimately, I would not buy these again. They were not a good fit for my dog. He's a Corgi, which is pretty small, and so small buttons seem like they should be fine for him, but he has so much trouble hitting them. He will press the button repeatedly with his claws, and no sound will come out, and then I have to press it because it only works if you hit it directly in the middle, and that's really hard to teach the dog and it slows the training down a lot because to him, it seems like the button doesn't always work, and he feels like he has to dig at it and attack it to make it work. They also lose the recording about once or twice a week, and I have to re-record it, which again slows training down when he presses the button. Finally gets it right after so many tries, and it just says to make a recording please blah blah blah blah blah. So annoying. I think that these would work better for cats, but then I looked on Reddit, and a lot of people are saying that they're hard for their cats to press, which I understand because they just don't press well. So, as weird as it is, I don't know why these are one of the top recommended because they are hard for animals to use. They don't hold their recording, and I've even heard that some people's cats have gotten sick from eating the foam before. Not a huge fan of these, and I'm going to keep looking for others. Also, people like to say it's great that it comes with instructions, but we tried to scan the QR code to find the instructions, and we could not find them. It just sent us to a random video that wasn't even the first video and acted like you had already watched something, it wasn't helpful. Just really overall, I'm not impressed. I like these buttons, but they also have some downsides that make me wanna look for other options. First, I wish they made it more clear that these are more for cats. Because I bought them for my dog and he's a corgi, which is a smaller dog, but even for him, he has trouble hitting them because they're so small and he's still learning. It's kind of hard to teach him. But he'll paw at the little felt area where the button is and he'll paw at it very quickly digging into it trying to get the button to go off. Sometimes it goes off right away sometimes not. And he'll h get frustrated when he paws at it but it doesn’t go off, which is just really hard for him. He's still learning. But if the button was a little bit bigger, I think he'd have more success. Second, they're starting to get claw marks in them from the times that he's scratching them trying to hit the button. So the durability is kind of questionable. They're made of the same little foam material that kids' little puzzle mats are made of, but they're super thin. It's like less than half an inch thick. So I feel like for the price, the materials could be better quality. They could be thicker foam, and they could have bigger button options for dogs. Thirdly, more than a few times when my dog pressed the button, it somehow had reset itself, which there isn't a way to do that unless you switch the switch on the back, which my dog can't do because the button is inside a little puzzle piece. So they just kind of automatically randomly reset themselves somehow. And it happened twice to two different buttons. Fourthly, the buttons come with a sticker sheet of common words, but the words are not cut out or anything, so you have to manually cut it out with scissors or write it with your hands. The buttons are so small that it's hard to write that small. So, I just cut out the words manually. I don’t know why they don’t just pay 2cents extra to have the words pre-cut out. Finally, it's a little tricky to figure out how to record it for the first time. You have to hold the button down to record and then release it when done. All in all these buttons work and are good quality and nicely presented, but maybe the quality is more for cats than dogs with large claws. I’m going to keep using them and see if it improves once my dog learns to be more accurate with them. So far he just thinks pressing the button is a trick he does that I reward him for, he doesn’t seem to get that he can press them any time he wants something.

Of course, we've seen so many YouTube videos of the pets who use these buttons, and we're enamored with the idea of our cats using them. I downloaded am iPhone app called "The Simple Clicker" free version, which, after a few sessions, I decided to purchase the Pro version of since it's only $1.99😃 First, I "charged" the clicker, meaning that every time you click, you give the pet a treat so it learns to associate the sound with a treat. Next, I had to train our cats to become comfortable with stepping on the neoprene pads. The first step was placing treats on the mats for 2-3 sessions. It seems like our cats didn't like the texture of stepping on the mats. I think it's also worth noting that it's likely a very good idea to allow the mats to sit out for a few days--outside of the package -- so they can off-gas, (meaning release any volatile compounds that give it that weird odor. in case you’re wondering, I did look it up, and neoprene is not likely to be toxic to humans, so I assume it is also not toxic to pets. However, I figure if I can smell that smell, then it’s probably offensive to most pets as well. Granted, I am very sensitive to odors, but still, I am sure that any animal is even more sensitive to odors than I am). The next step will be getting the cats to put their paws on the button. I really do not know how I am going to do that, and I have not gotten to that part yet. One other thing to note is that training is recommended to be done before regularly scheduled meals occur, that “treats“ should not comprise more than 10% of an animal diet yet should still be within Reasonable dietary nutritious guidelines, and that crunchy treats are a great opportunity to promote the animals dental health. And I haven’t done research on this part yet, but I am sure there are published recommendations for ingredients and macros for treats according to the type of animal you have. Anyway, I seem to be our pets favorite animal for the moment ha ha ha because I’m the one giving them so many treats! I also found that, depending on I’m not sure what 😆 sometimes, I can use their regular kibble as they’re reinforcement with the Clicker, seems not only much more economical but also very likely more nutritious as well as well yeah more nutritious but I have found that both cats, at different times, have found the treats I mean they’re they’re regular kibble to be motivating at sometimes and not motivating at other times. As you can see from the picture, Billie (eating) found their regular kibble to be motivating during this session, but Ella (on the right) didn’t. During the next session, they reversed! 😆 By the way, fluent pet does give you a link to download their free training guide as well as resources to join the quote fluent pet community once you purchase the item and give them your email. I mean I’m sure the email is for marketing but, so what, right? 😄 So, if I am successful in getting our cats to press the buttons, then we will expand two more tiles. We I am having so much fun with this! And it’s providing great bonding time with the cats, they are clearly enjoying it, L and funny thing is that my search of none suggest making the First button be a treat button. However, the fluent pet res pet to think that the only purpose for pushing a button is getting food treats. So that makes me question whether I should have charged the clicker with food at all. But anyway, here we are, so I don’t know… At any rate, the cats and I are having fun! I highly recommend this as well as the app I mentioned! I can’t wait to make more progress!

We're still in the learning stage, but these are great buttons. I'm excited thinking about the possibility of having a "discussion" with my dog in the future and learning more about what she thinks about.

My cat just randomly lays on the buttons now when he is trying to get attention. It will obviously take some intensive training to get him to reliably use these buttons. I just don't have the time at the moment. If a cat is treat-oriented it woukd be pretty easy to train them. Easy to program the individual buttons.

Wir haben soeben das Paket erhalten und gleich ausgepackt. Beim ersten Knopf dann die große Enttäuschung nach so langem Warten: Am Knopf und in der Schachtel befindet sich eine unidentifizierbare braune Substanz, die den Knopf auch gefärbt zu haben scheint, da es sich nicht ablösen oder abwischen lässt. Die anderen Knöpfe sind augenscheinlich okay, aber da wir nicht wissen, was genau an diesem Knopf dran ist und ob das gefährlich für unsere Tiere sein könnte (von dem offensichtlichen optischen Makel mal ganz zu schweigen), können wir den Knopf nicht verwenden - obwohl eben 12 Knöpfe und nicht 11 beworben werden. Sehr schade. Wir hoffen, eine Form der Wiedergutmachung zu erhalten, da FluentPet auch nicht gerade preisgünstig ist und wir eine gewisse Qualität damit eigentlich vorausgesetzt hatten...

Poor quality. All of the buttons are the older first generation model that has the speaker on the bottom and no holes on the top. That makes the volume quite faint. If I'd realized that I would not have ordered this set so I'm pretty disappointed. Also 3 of the buttons don't work properly - the seem to have speaker issues and are more quiet and/or crackly. I do not recommend this set and I plan on returning it. For the price this feels like a rip off as the quality just isn't there. I own the next generation buttons as well (the ones with the holes) and they are a lot better. But of course you can't order a tile kit with those buttons on canadian amazon. Kind of wish I had no decided to go with fluent pet in the first place. I may look around for other products that are compatible with the buttons I have.

我が家の小型犬はビビリでボタンを押す力が弱いです。他のボタンを使っていましたが、押しているのに反応しないことが多く、だんだんボタンを押さなくなってきました。 日本で発売するのとわかり、すぐに購入しました。 我が家には超大型犬と小型犬がいるのですが、力の差があるのに、同じように反応してくれるので、ボタンを押す回数が増えています。 先ほども、おさんぽのボタンを押すので「おさんぽ？」と聞くとワン！と返事をしてくれます。 お水、おさんぽ、抱っこ、おやつのボタンを用意しています。 犬も気持ちが伝わるのが楽しい様子です。 もっとボタンの数を増やしたいと思います。