{"id":6,"date":"2023-04-20T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themify.me\/demo\/themes\/ultra-lifestyle\/?p=364"},"modified":"2023-04-24T18:42:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T22:42:59","slug":"teach-my-pet-to-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/teach-my-pet-to-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"I want to teach my pet how to talk so where do I start?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-146 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/307102819_496189132516274_6033461886312268996_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/307102819_496189132516274_6033461886312268996_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/307102819_496189132516274_6033461886312268996_n-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/307102819_496189132516274_6033461886312268996_n-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/307102819_496189132516274_6033461886312268996_n.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Todd and I started learning to communicate with each other in May of 2022. I can tell you from my own experience that our journey of learning to communicate with each other over the last year has been amazing, frustrating, and at times, at least for me, heartbreaking.\u00a0 Would I do it again?\u00a0 Absolutely, I wish I would have known about this sooner! \u00a0 Todd is an amazing learner and took to the buttons very quickly.\u00a0 If you think that you and your learner might like to start on this journey there are several options.\u00a0 First, you must realize that this is something that you will have to work at and devote time to it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several companies out there make recordable buttons for pets.\u00a0 The buttons Todd uses are made by Fluet Pet.\u00a0 If you are not sure if you and your pet are ready and willing to learn, then I suggest getting a few buttons to start.\u00a0 That way you can try it out before committing to a full kit.\u00a0 There are also FAQ and How to get started guides available for free download on the Fluent Pet website.\u00a0 There are also groups you can join of other trainers and learners where you can ask questions, share success stories and get ideas if you hit a wall in your progress.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Todd and I have an incredible bond and he was already extremely expressive for a cat, I felt he could learn this so I bought a full kit for him.\u00a0 In future posts, I will cover how I set my board up, teaching methods, how to talk to your learner, listening to what they say, etc.\u00a0 There is no single best method, you work by trial and error to find what is best for you and your learner, but I can tell you it is a wonderful feeling to see how happy Todd is being able to use the words he has and how eager he is to learn more.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6\" data-postid=\"6\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd and I started learning to communicate with each other in May of 2022. I can tell you from my own experience that our journey of learning to communicate with each other over the last year has been amazing, frustrating, and at times, at least for me, heartbreaking.\u00a0 Would I do it again?\u00a0 Absolutely, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-todds-blog","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}