@hunger4words: When Stella doesn’t have a button for something, she finds her own way to say it. When she wants a puzzle toy, she says “play eat.” After she started using this consistently, I tried adding a “puzzle” button, but Stella kept going back to her original phrase. I’ve noticed she often prefers the words she invents herself. This happened with “bye eat” too. That’s how Stella asks for her Kong with peanut butter (the treat she gets when we leave). Even after I added “Kong” and “peanut butter,” she used them briefly… then returned to “bye eat.” What I love most is that she created these phrases over five years ago, and they’re still meaningful to her today. #hunger4words #dogvideos #talkingdogbuttons #buttontraining #aic