It started the way most of these stories do: a dog who clearly wanted something, and no way to know what. A whine that could have meant three different things. A stare that lasted just long enough to be unmistakable and just short enough to miss.

The first button was a hack: a recordable doorbell button taped by the door, one word on it. It worked faster than expected. A few weeks later there were four buttons and a dog who used all of them on purpose.

TalkPaws exists to make that first button easy: no soldering, no app, no guessing which word to start with. Just a button, a recording, and a dog who's been trying to tell you something the whole time.