Fiki: The Talking Cat Who Connects Through Buttons
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Fiki: The Talking Cat Who Connects Through Buttons
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Flounder's Empowering Journey with Mouse Toy
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Flounder's Empowering Journey with Mouse Toy
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Understanding Flounder: A Unique Cat Perspective
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Understanding Flounder: A Unique Cat Perspective
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Flounder has 81 buttons which may seem like a lot for a cat, but 81 words is still a very limited vocabulary. Luckily, she's resourceful and is SO good at figuring out how to communicate what she wants to communicate using the words that are available to her. Sometimes this means I have to be a good guesser. I have a difficult time with this because I try to be aware of when or if I'm over-interpreting for her. Over-interpreting is easy to do with talking pets, so I always try to tread cautiousl
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Flounder has 81 buttons which may seem like a lot for a cat, but 81 words is still a very limited vocabulary. Luckily, she's resourceful and is SO good at figuring out how to communicate what she wants to communicate using the words that are available to her. Sometimes this means I have to be a good guesser. I have a difficult time with this because I try to be aware of when or if I'm over-interpreting for her. Over-interpreting is easy to do with talking pets, so I always try to tread cautiousl
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Discover the Magic of FlounderLand and Talking Pets
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Discover the Magic of FlounderLand and Talking Pets
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One doesn't get to almost 100 buttons without learning new words. Flounder LOVES learning new words and any time I add a new button to her board she is always eager to press it to find out which word it is. "Same" and "Real" have been words I've been modeling a lot, and I think she was really excited to use them but couldn't come up with a reason to use them, so she decided to make sure I knew that she is the same and she is also real. I love when she practices her new words because it shows me
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One doesn't get to almost 100 buttons without learning new words. Flounder LOVES learning new words and any time I add a new button to her board she is always eager to press it to find out which word it is. "Same" and "Real" have been words I've been modeling a lot, and I think she was really excited to use them but couldn't come up with a reason to use them, so she decided to make sure I knew that she is the same and she is also real. I love when she practices her new words because it shows me
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"I don't need buttons. I understand my pet without them." There seems to be a rumor going around that buttons replace body language. That couldn't be further from the truth. Buttons are not to replace any form of communication. Buttons are to ENHANCE communication, using them in addition to body language. I'm not sure where or how this rumor got started (*cough *cough Jackson Galaxy), but I wouldn't even know how to teach Flounder the English language if I wasn't able to read her body language.
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"I don't need buttons. I understand my pet without them." There seems to be a rumor going around that buttons replace body language. That couldn't be further from the truth. Buttons are not to replace any form of communication. Buttons are to ENHANCE communication, using them in addition to body language. I'm not sure where or how this rumor got started (*cough *cough Jackson Galaxy), but I wouldn't even know how to teach Flounder the English language if I wasn't able to read her body language.
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I'm really good about not moving buttons. When I DO move them, I only move one at a time, wait until she learns where that one is, and I typically don't move them very far. Reasons I have moved buttons in the past are sound board expansion and Mouse Toy got moved from her "Object" tiles to her "Subject" tiles based on how he became a family member against my will. I recently moved the "Ouside" button to her weather tile as I try to keep the categories consistent to help with learning different c
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Flounder & Fluke Fishing Tips, Rigs, & Stories With John Skinner
Jun 30, 2022
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Flounder doesn't like to be touched. She's just that way. To be fair, neither do I. So when Flounder decided she's in the mood for a good head scratch, and presses her "Pets" button, I usually get really excited and run to her to give her head scratches. This time, though, I was working so we had to meet upstairs in my home office. I love that the buttons allow us to communicate our meet up locations for head scratches. Buttons and improved communication have been so helpful for us in so many di
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Everyone wants to know what life with Flounder is actually like, not the social media version of it. I post raw footage in her community to give you a better feel for it, but it's really not that different from what you see on social media. She narrates a lot of what she observes throughout the day. To everyone who has said: "I'm so glad I didn't get my cat/dog these buttons because he/she would just press the treat button nonstop", no. You couldn't be more wrong. Flounder narrates life more tha
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Giving Flounder a way to advocate for herself has come in handy more times than I ever would have thought - as it turns out, she gets into a lot of things. This is a situation where I don't think I ever would have known this happened if it weren't for buttons. She wasn't limping, and her paw wasn't sticky enough to stick to things (she uses it to press the buttons). It was just a very thin layer of goop, but it was enough to make her uncomfortable. Flounder being Flounder, didn't hesitate to go
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Can older pets learn how to use buttons? Of course! The only limitations they have are the ones we assign to them. My honest opinion is that Fiki learned the actual language part of the buttons faster. He already knew a lot of the words we use, so the only thing really slowing him down was learning the location of the buttons and how to press them. (and the fact that he almost never has access to the board because Flounder is always ALWAYS talking!) If you think about it though, you already use
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Ok, so...Flounder asks for things for Mouse Toy all the time. Multiple times a day. And I'm pretty sure Mouse Toy loves her for it. However, sometimes Flounder accidentally starts to ask for Mouse Toy when she wanted the thing for herself. It's funny to me to think that a cat could get into habitually doing something to a point where they aren't even thinking about what they're doing. She is just so used to asking for things for Mouse Toy that she has to correct herself when she wants something
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Flounder has proven to me over and over that her nose works much better than mine, but this time was whoa. After she pressed these buttons, she ran to the door that leads to the garage and just went crazy. I went into the garage (on a solo mission) to see if I could find anything and lo and behold: dead marsh rat. It must have just passed away because I didn't smell it AT ALL and she could already smell it through a door! I think a lot about how useful buttons have been in our lives, but there a
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Flounder amazes me on a daily basis, but she also sometimes makes me feel dumb because she's so intelligent. This interaction is a great example of that. She could not have been more clear about what she was talking about, and I still didn't get it until I got up to go the the kitchen and she literally escorted me to the window in her room to show me the resting Christmas tree outside. I felt so dumb. Have you ever had moments like this where your pets tell you (with or without buttons) somethin
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It is important to understand that I am not FORCING Flounder to be polite. I had intentions of giving her the treat ball whether she got it right or not. Knowing Flounder how I know her, I am TEACHING her how to be polite. Part of the reason she loves her buttons so much is because she loves to learn new things and she is quite the perfectionist. Giving her corrections is something that she sees as a challenge and I believe she genuinely enjoys "getting it right". I am always watching for signs
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Flounder has a difficult time making friends because she can be a lot sometimes. She doesn’t like people (she gets that from her mom), she’s not a fan of other cats, dogs are tolerable as long as they don’t take away attention from her, and most wildlife is edible. So I was quite surprised when she met an individual she was willing to tolerate without trying to hunt down. I was even more surprised when we got home and she called him a “friend”. Didn’t see that coming. Again, buttons have shown m
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Flounder likes to make weekend plans...but HOW does she know it's the weekend?! I wish Blink had timestamps on their videos. These interactions happened one right after the other. She only starts talking about "swim", "beach", and "paddle board" on Saturdays and we usually go on Sundays. How does she know this?! Like, seriously?! Yes, it helps me to know that she has an understanding of what those buttons mean (those are all difficult to model consistently), but it genuinely freaks me out a litt
753 viewsSep 21, 2024
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If you're new here, you may not understand what a truly magical place FlounderLand truly is. Allow me to introduce ourselves! I never thought in a million years that I would have a talking purrmaid, but here I am and this is how it all started! If you're a skeptic, I invite you to get a button or two or not even that! If you are convinced this is a ploy to sell buttons, just get two different noise makers (A bell, a squeaker, etc.) and just try introducing them as two different words to your pet
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If you know Flounder and I, you know that the 4th of July, AKA Independence Day is our least favorite day of the year. As a professional mermaid, I always feared for my life with drunken boaters, the dolphins were always more aggressive because of all the noise, and there was more litter in the water than fish. As a professional purrmaid, Flounder needs to wear her bravery tutu because of all the scary noises at night, she won't go outside because there are so many tourists taking photos of her
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A quick recap for folks who are new, Elsie and Flounder (@flounder_meatloaf) are going to meet in February. We've both been laying groundwork by exchanging scent items and showing the cats videos of the other. Flounder has used Elsie's name, but Elsie had not used hers yet. The reason we're doing it is because we're curious to see what happens when two talking cats get together. There's a lot of examples of dogs doing this, but it's harder to introduce cats to each other. Meanwhile, I had the op
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And here it is... the annual Christmas Tree Tantrum! As many of you know, Flounder really loves her Christmas tree. When I took it down 2 years ago she had the biggest tantrum I've ever experienced in my life. When I took it down last year (because she was eating the cord for the lights - so I only took it down until I was Abe to get a cord protector. She was without it for 2-3 days.), she resorted to buttons to open up a civilized conversation about it. I love this video because it shows the st
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It's so nice that Mouse Toy has a guardian who doubles as his voice and makes sure he gets the enrichment he needs that day. If only all Mouse Toys could be so lucky... | Flounder Cat
158.3K views10 months ago
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What happens when Mouse Toy needs to speak like Pocahontas but can't get to the correct button? Well, this... I know he needs a smaller ball. Every time I go to find one, I forget what I was doing and then I remember again when I'm in bed trying to sleep. You may never see a more FlounderLand video than this, so rich in Flounder culture. Buttons, "Wingapo", Mouse Toy talking, the only thing we're missing is the Christmas tree! | Flounder Cat
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I almost didn't post this video. There's nothing special about it (although I'm slightly surprised she's not complaining about something on TV other than Pocahontas). Flounder always watches the TV and always responds to it with her buttons, so nothing new there. The button pressing isn't anything special (just one press). I look terrible - my hair is a mess, I'm dressed like a bum, my kitchen is a mess, etc. BUT this is such a raw and real moment between Flounder and I. We have these wholesome
533 viewsNov 26, 2024
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Listen...we all knew this was coming, however it DID surprise me that it happened so quickly after I told her that Elsie would be real later for the first time. I have noticed with Flounder that the more she talks with her buttons, the better she gets at it, but I've also noticed that as she's perfecting her button pressing skills, she's also understanding me when I talk a lot faster. I learn best by doing, so I believe it's a lot like that. I obviously believe all animals are capable of underst
43.6K views4 months ago
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How Do FluentPet Talking Buttons Work? A Step-By-Step Guide
May 4, 2022
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The Nuances of living with a Talking Fish
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