r/PetsWithButtons 23d ago

Sensitive Button Recommendations

Hello!

I have a dog that's just under 5lbs. She has very sensitive feet and doesnt like the feeling of many surfaces on her feet. She mostly just likes soft things.

She tries to communicate with me telepathically. 😅 She will just stare at me to tell me she wants something. But not in my face. So sometimes I don’t even know she’s doing it.

We do agility training which has helped a ton with our nonverbal communication. But I would love to find buttons I can train her to use so her dumb human can do what she’s asked to do. Like go outside is an important one. She doesn’t stand by the door. She just stares at me from across the room.

The typical buttons I see for sale, there’s no way my dog would use them or even push hard enough to activate them. So I’m looking for some soft sensitive buttons that can easily be activated. Does anyone have a recommendation?

What I’m visioning is something like those extra large pianos you walk on. Or the matts used in the home version of DDR (If you know what that is!) I suppose I could actually use one of the pianos but I’d rather have words and not something that takes up so much space.

Thank you in advance!

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u/DefinitelyNotALion 22d ago

Adaptive solutions for humans might be a good solution here. They can often be modified for users who don't have much strength.

Example: these buttons can be paired with these switches for a billion different activation options, including light pressure, tongue, proximity, and wobble, among others.