Christina Hunger taught her dog, Stella, to communicate via buttons. It's become a global movement. Her new book has techniques to replicate at home.

Dr. Learn recently picked up a button starter kit from FluentPet, a popular speech-button brand co-founded by Alexis Devine — best known for using these buttons with her dog Bunny (@whataboutbunny).

The best dog talking buttons help you teach your dog to "talk". Our top picks from Fluent Pet and Hunger for Words are recordable and easy to use.

Christina Hunger taught her dog, Stella, to communicate via buttons. It's become a global movement. Her new book has techniques to replicate at home.

Puppy Parker Posey, a beagle mix living in Des Moines, uses augmentative interspecies communication to express herself.

Is your dog bothered by something but you can’t work out what? Do you wish they could tell you? There’s a huge range of dog “talking” buttons on the market that now claim to let your dog do this. A ...

What was buried inside that impenetrable dog skull? If I could teach her to use these buttons, she would tell me. Or so I imagined. Ellie’s first word, I decided, would be OUTSIDE.

Christina Hunger taught her dog, Stella, to communicate via buttons. It's become a global movement. Her new book has techniques to replicate at home.

Stella doesn’t just use the buttons to communicate her needs ... adjusting verbal and visual cues and modeling words in new ...

Christina Hunger taught her dog, Stella, to communicate via buttons. It's become a global movement. Her new book has techniques to replicate at home.