FluentPet Speak Up Get Started Kit with Clearer Upward-Facing Sound - 6 Recordable Buttons w/Pre-Installed Batteries & 3 HexTile Button Mats | Training Dog & Cat Communication Buttons

Amazon forced me to return. Box looked great was looking to using this item. But since they failed to give me rest of order i have to return it to get a refund on my order. Will order direct next time.

This is a great product and I’m super excited to use it with my golden retriever. However, I feel that the buttons are just too small. To be able to train your pup to hit those buttons that are so small is difficult because of the coordination. Other than that, it’s a great product.

ONLY FOR CAT PARENTS Probably better for dogs. Even though my cats can understand and act on any verbal command like "food" or "outside," they didn't get the aim of the buttons I pushed repeatedly with the same commands, in my voice. I believe dogs would show to be more able to pick up the skill better. The set itself worked perfectly and was worth the price.

The recording is clear and buttons are easy for small cats to push. Only one of our three cats has shown interest but he's a good student. He has mastered two buttons and I'm sending for more!

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。

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My dog has us trained. And here I am trying to train her. I think she is winning!

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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.

These may be a tad too loud, but they are clear and work great.My cat has no interest even when I tried training with treats. She cares not. The item itself is great but only buy these if you have a really motivated pet.

I order this tester kit of 2 buttons as I wasn`t sure if our Labrador would be focused enough to use them.He pleasantly surprised me although 1 button we recorded "treat" & yes like a true Labrador he persistently pressed that button.It`s a shame however that despite searching the internet it appears that I am unable to purchase supplementary buttons. The only way I have found is to pay huge P&P from the USA.If I had realised this in the start, despite loving the FluentPet brand, I would have chosen a different brand that is readily available in the UK & doesn`t require being imported at an inflated cost to the customerA set of 12 was discounted toPURCHASE £91 from £114SHIPPING £44TAXES £27 Totalling £71 (buttons £91)

Great piece of kit.

I've wanted to try this for a long time, but waited due to the ages and health situations of my prior pets, who have since passed. I now have two 8 mo kittens, who are very interactive and constantly trying to "talk" to me, so I finally sprung for it, figuring now is the ideal time for them to learn. We're still in the very early stages of using the buttons, so my rating is not based on the efficacy of the language-learning system, but the quality of the physical product.Pros:* Buttons are easy for small paws to press.* Method is straightforward.* Physical product is quick to set up, nice looking, and well-packaged.* Different colored mats for different parts of speech is an interesting idea and seems like an improvement to their original product (which I only saw in videos, but appeared to have no color coding and to rely only on spatial memory).Cons (mostly issues due to the $129 price tag):* Sound quality is a little fuzzy (no better than off-brand buttons, which I briefly tried with a prior pet) and one of my buttons is weirdly louder and another fainter compared to the others.* When removing cut-outs to place buttons into mats, neoprene backing feels very thin. It seems like it could accidentally be punched through if one is too enthusiastic.* Sticker labels seem dog-centric, along with some oddly specific ones for a "basic vocab set" in which one can record only 12 word options. I personally might have preferred a sheet of blank labels (*ideally* ones with a wet-erase surface and a thin-tipped non-toxic wet-erase pen, so that they could be edited).* Not much can be said with 12 words, especially in a multi-pet and/or multi-human household, which needs a button at least for each pet if not multiple people. For $129 it seems like they could at least include 16 buttons. Having just a few more word options could add a lot of value in practice.Overall, given the price of this package, one might expect a little more attention to detail in terms of the product quality/usability and consideration of a larger customer base.This last thought is purely speculative and does not effect my rating, but I'm wondering if it might make more sense to have differently colored and/or patterned button tops to provide clearer visual cues to link to specific word meanings. In early online videos of Bunny (from before the FluentPet system was released) generic buttons were used that were an array of bright colors, and my understanding is that those are what she first learned with. FluentPet seems to have updated their mats to allow different colors for different parts of speech, but the buttons themselves are all still white. I realize that cats and dogs see colors differently than humans do, but they do have some shade differentiation and can distinguish between high contrast visual patterns. Is it necessary to still rely almost entirely on spatial memory, or is this making potentially limiting assumptions about how animals learn language? There are little stick-figure drawings on the sticker labels, but I suspect those are more helpful to the humans.Conclusion:I still feel optimistic about this product and look forward to seeing how (if) my cats progress with it. At the same time, I see only 2 clear advantages to purchasing this system as opposed to constructing one's own with off-brand buttons and floor mats. (1) The smaller buttons are easier for use by little paws. (2) There is no leg work, in that all the pieces are there.... Constructing one's own system would require finding the right mats and buttons, figuring out how to attach the buttons, etc., and I'm not sure how the cost would compare. I haven't seen any small paw/cat-sized generic buttons, so I would probably repurchase this, mainly for that reason.... On the other hand, I think that if I had a big dog who could handle the bigger off-brand buttons, I might have preferred the DYI route, since the button sound quality is not any better, and it would be easier to experiment with button spacing (for a larger animal) or with color-word association in the DIY case.