Pet owners all talk to there pets but most don't expect a intelligible response,though dogs tend to listen attentively and even seem to understand what is being said they have no way to clearly communicate,that is until a trained speech/language pathologist decided to apply her knowledge of augmentative communication. She put together a board with buttons that could be pressed with a paw then trained her dog to use the buttons to communicate. She started with belly+rub and when they were pressed she scratched her dog's belly. The button board now has 40 words which are used to create nearly complete sentences not to mention that the dog randomly tells her she loves her several times a day. How cool is that?
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