10/01/2026
What are the most common first words for FluentPet users? We analyzed the data from over 2,000 FluentPet Connect households to give you the answers:
#1 for dogs: ‘Outside’ - this is a button that can be really easy to reinforce, and is something that fits easily into the routine of most dogs.
The next 3 most common first words were ‘play’, ‘treat’, and ‘potty’.
#1 for cats: ‘Treat’ - again, an easy word to incorporate into most cats pre-existing routine. Just toss a treat and hit the button to begin the modeling process with your learner.
The next 3 most common first words for cats were ‘play’, ‘food’, and ‘scritches’
Why do these buttons work well for starting out?
These words are examples of actions/activities that already occur in your learner’s everyday life, which makes them both easier to model, and especially effective in giving your learner more agency over their day.
What about most common sequences? After single-press data, we asked what the most common sentences/phrases pressed by learners were:
‘Mom’ ‘Love You’ - now that is just the sweetest. We’re all well aware of how much love can be present in a relationship between a companion animal and their guardian; it’s especially heartwarming to see our learners have the ability to show it in a more explicit way.
‘Food’ ‘Now’ - Introducing temporal concepts to the board can be especially rewarding, and can help our learners communicate urgency about certain activities/situations. Combine this with many learners being routine-driven, we can see why this is one of the most-pressed sequences.
Overall, across the sequences we analyzed, name words generally go at the beginning of a sequence, with time words at the end. It’s curious to see how learners develop a certain syntax they follow to build phrases. How cool!
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