#dog buttons

[blueboyluca]

It’s not that their animals are finally communicating—we always knew they were communicating. It’s that we’ve found this tool that acts as a catalyst to get us to listen more closely to what they’re saying, and now we can do that without the buttons. The act of putting my intention toward listening to my dog forced me to learn about a lot of things that make listening easier because I began to understand what I was hearing. Hearing Bunny speak to me in English was what truly inspired me to learn Dog, and our need for buttons has diminished as we start to just get each other as two animals in the room.

— Alexis Devine, I Am Bunny (2023)

Skill issue.

[darkwood-sleddog]

If dog buttons have one hater I am that very hater.

Communicating “in the same language for the first time” through dog buttons as Christina Hunger describes in her book is a failure of the most human proportion, putting too much value on the human (English) spoken word and ignoring that every detail, movement, twitch of our dogs is an act of communication itself. They are already communicating with us, just as human and primitive dog first did thousands of years ago. Just how we have shaped each other’s evolution by our very relationship. The dog understands you without buttons. If you can’t understand a dog without buttons, or “speak the same language” without human spoken language that is your HUMAN failure.

[hazard-and-friends]

The only valid buttons dog is Sapphie the pomsky because her owner admits outright she's pushing buttons randomly and gave her a "Bitch!" button.

LOVE sapphie. bitch.

[wyrddogs]

I don't need dog buttons. Kermit just asked me to get his chewy off the high shelf for him by squeaking, glancing up there with just his eyes, and when I didn't respond immediately, by pointing his nose directly at the shelf. When I pulled the chew down he let me know that was the correct response by jumping and wagging his tail.

[hashtag-xolo]

Dog buttons upholding Proper Verbal Communication as the one and only true valid form of communication with humans is the bane of my autistic, poor auditory processing, tonally flat, occasionally nonverbal existence. And as the parent of an ADHD kid whose primary mode of communication is not spoken words.

If my fiance can tell I'm happy because I'm flapping my hands, and I can tell what my kid is saying with a gesture and squeak, then you too can learn that your dog staring deep into your eyes and then walking towards something is clear communication of "I want a thing"

[wereflooof]

werewolf who can’t talk while she’s shifted so you get her those dog buttons that say words

credit: @.hemipenal-system

[nostimroads]

X-X-X    X-X-X     X-X-X

“Hmm, it seems you like to play with fire. Let me light up your fingers then!" Blaze the cat stimboard

[queso-blanco]

Today i got my dog those buttons you record with words or simple phrases so they can communicate differently with you and I was upset because a phone call went very bad and i was on the verge of crying

anyway my dog walked into my room, pressed the "I love you!" button, then laid down beside me.

I'm not crying, you are.