Raz hasn’t been as excited about the buttons recently, but one of my cats likes to bat at pictures on the wall to get my attention. 🙄 so I thought maybe she’d like to learn to communicate with me instead?

Cinder gives every indication of knowing what I want her to do and just not wanting to do it, but today she finally, firmly, pressed the “outside” button to ask me to open the window. #FluentPet #PetButtons

Two button presses today! Raz came into the room while I was working and pressed “ball.” Might have been an accident, but I made a big deal and we went and got her ball from the other room and played fetch!

Then later the cat was being a bored asshole again and I was demonstrating the “play” button for her, and then when I started playing with the cat, Raz hit “play” also! So I was juggling the feather stick with the cat and the ball with the dog for a few minutes. 😂 #FluentPet #PetButtons

Yesterday Raz pressed her second button! One of the cats was being an asshole in the way that makes me think she is bored, so I demonstrated “play” and then started playing with her. Then the other cat joined in. A couple minutes later Raz came in the room and hit “play!” Not sure if she intended to? Describing what we were doing? Jealous?

Anyway I abandoned the cats and made a big deal about getting her toys and playing with her, since she had asked. #FluentPet #PetButtons

Yay my dog Raz pressed her very first button today! I’d been demonstrating “outside” for her, and this morning I took her to the back door (normal schedule) and just pointed at it, and she pressed it with her nose! Even re-pressed it when it didn’t speak the first time! Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?

Here she is! Alt text: Raz, an older brown and white spaniel dog looking at the camera with a gray tabby cat (Barbossa) in the background stalking her tail. #FluentPet #PetButtons