🐾 Our Story · The Talking Dog

Meet Kenny

The little dog who changed how humans and pets communicate.

The Talking Dog began in 2020 during the COVID pandemic, when our family welcomed a Bichon Frise puppy called Kenny.

What started as a simple home experiment soon grew into a six-year journey that has helped millions of pet parents discover what's possible through talking buttons.

6+ Years Experience
500M+ Video Views
5,000+ Students
Verified 6-Year Method ✓ Kenny the Bichon Frise with talking buttons
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Kenny the Talking Bichon
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Channel 4
Yahoo!
American Kennel Club
Kenny as a puppy
Where the idea came from

It all started with
one simple question...

Two members of our family worked as optometrists. Over the years, they had seen talking buttons — augmentative communication devices — used by elderly patients who had lost the ability to speak. The results were remarkable.

One evening, watching a young Kenny bumble around the living room, someone asked a question that would set the next six years in motion.

"Could a dog learn to use them too?"

🐾 The Turning Point

Then something remarkable happened.

At first, it was all about patience. We placed a single button on the floor and waited. Kenny sniffed it, pawed at it, and occasionally pressed it by accident. We were cautious — we didn't want to get our hopes up.

But over the following weeks, something shifted. Kenny wasn't pressing the button at random any more. He was beginning to understand what it meant.

The first time he pressed it intentionally and looked up at us — waiting for a response — we knew this was something completely different. Kenny wasn't just learning a trick. He was beginning to communicate.

Kenny pressing his talking button
Kenny's vocabulary

His vocabulary grew, one button at a time.

We introduced words carefully — one at a time, in context, with consistency. Kenny's first buttons were the things that mattered most in his daily life.

Food
Potty
Play
Belly rubs

From those first four buttons, Kenny's communication grew. He began combining words. He started using them at the right moments, unprompted. And he started telling us things we had never known he wanted to say.

That's the moment this stopped being an experiment — and became something we had to share with the world.

Kenny beside his talking button board
🌍 Kenny goes global

We decided to share Kenny's journey.

We started posting videos — nothing polished, nothing scripted. Just Kenny, his buttons, and the genuine moments of communication we were witnessing every day.

The response was overwhelming. People couldn't believe what they were seeing. The videos spread around the world.

BBC
Channel 4
Yahoo
American Kennel Club
500M+
video views across all platforms
BBC One
National TV feature
Channel 4
Primetime appearance
Yahoo
Global feature
Steph's Packed Lunch
Daytime TV appearance
The honest answer

We could have released a course
years ago.

People asked constantly. Every week, messages arrived asking if there was a course, a guide, something they could follow. And for a long time, the honest answer was no.

We deliberately waited. Because we wanted to keep learning from Kenny. We wanted to test every approach, understand every mistake, and refine every step before putting our name to it.

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We kept testing and refining the method with Kenny
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We wanted to truly understand what works — and what doesn't
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We needed a structure simple enough for any dog owner to follow
We wanted to release something we were genuinely proud of
Six years in the making

Why this course exists today.

Six years of living with Kenny. Six years of testing, failing, learning, and refining. Six years of watching this little dog grow into one of the most remarkable communicators we have ever seen.

This course is everything we have learned, distilled into a simple, step-by-step structure that any dog owner can follow — regardless of breed, age, or experience level.

We have built something we genuinely believe in. And we can't wait to see what your dog has to say.

1
2020
Kenny arrives during lockdown
A Bichon Frise puppy joins the family. The experiment begins with one button on the kitchen floor.
2
2021
First intentional button press
Kenny presses his button deliberately and looks up waiting for a response. Everything changes.
3
2022 – 2023
Kenny goes viral
500 million+ views. BBC One. Channel 4. Yahoo. The world discovers Kenny.
4
2024 – 2025
Building the course
Two years of structuring, filming, testing, and refining — until the method was simple enough for anyone to follow.
5
2026
The Talking Dog Course launches
Five thousand dog owners and counting. The conversation is just getting started.

Our goal has never been teaching dogs
to press buttons.

It's helping owners understand their dogs in a completely new way. To bridge the gap between what your dog feels and what you can hear. To give them a voice — and give you the gift of truly listening.

Every dog has something to say. Kenny taught us that. And now, with this course, we want to help you discover what yours has been trying to tell you all along.

"Every dog has something to say. We want to help you hear it."

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