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We are making some progress getting used to using our new hextiles and buttons! The smaller buttons is an interesting change, and his reaction hasn’t been what I expected. I think he will quickly get the hang of the small buttons and they will be better for him in the long run though. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It’s clear that the smaller buttons are easier to activate as I had hoped, but the adjustment from making imprecise and approximate button presses with the larger Learning Resources buttons, to now needing to make more specific body aware movements in order to activate the correct word with the smaller FluentPet buttons is proving to be quite the inconvenient task for Marshall.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Although this adds an unforeseen bump in the road in the switchover, it’s actually a nice little blessing in disguise since one of the training things I’ve been working on with Marshall has been body awareness! No more flailing without any regard for the envious around him! So the smaller buttons not only take up less room in my house, and are more easily activated, but they are also serving as a great exercise in intentional and precise body movements!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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09/18/2020
Blessed by a beautifully nostalgic thunderstorm last night, we finally got to go on a lovely little fall walk this morning in the just “unhealthy” air.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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09/18/2020
We CANNOT wait for our set up to get here any day now... We made a little switch-a-roo with the “hungry” button, and after some trial and error I think we’ve settled on a good solution until they arrive.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Originally I hesitated to have a “hungry” button at all due to Marshall’s extreme food motivation, but due to his fear of strange sounds I decided it was likely the only way to get him even remotely interested in, let alone near, the buttons. He actually surprised me with his initial willpower and manners with the “hungry” button, and I thought I had dodged that bullet... but I was wrong...⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Over the last couple of weeks we’ve tried a few different things to discourage the inappropriate usage of the button, and encourage the use of other buttons. The trouble was that ethically I didn’t feel right about silencing him by taking away his word, and in the end it didn’t matter because Marshall is a dog who cannot be silenced and found that simply throwing a fit with the remaining buttons got his point across just fine. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Now we have his “hungry” button next to his bowl again having found that I would rather him press the button inappropriately sometimes while also understanding that his other buttons have nothing to do with food, than have him just fully regress with all button use and meanings. So here the “hungry” button will live from here on out.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Have you dealt with regression, or inappropriate use of food related buttons? How did you handle it? What are you feelings on the ethics of taking a button away, and it worked for you? I would love to read your thoughts in the comments!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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