Boops, floofs, derps, and more. The cat’s out of the bag – FableVision is thrilled to announce the release of Learn With Paws (not claws!), a new educational app for pets. In the era of “pandemic pets,” when an influx of families welcomed new furry and feathered companions into their homes during quarantine, about 70% of current US households own at least one pet.
The demand for educational excellence results not only in preschool waitlists and large class sizes for kids, but for animals, too. Learn With Paws helps pets excel academically and behaviorally by providing families with accessible, engaging, and free pet educational resources.
By playing through Learn With Paws, pets practice key math, ESL (English as a Second Language), PSL (Pet Second Language), art, and petiquette skills to ensure that they’re cool cats who can meet the rigorous demands of today’s educational curriculum. The Learn With Paws app consists of several unique interactives to help pets stay at the top of their class:
Language & Com-meow-nication
Since pets meow, tweet, neigh, or bark, it can be hard for humans to understand what their pets want. Learn With Paws teaches pets how to speak English, so you always have a friend to comment on your outfits, tell you jokes, or question your life choices. The more the pets play through Learn With Paws, the more advanced their language skills become; you can discuss the sports game with your dog or dig into a deeper conversation about the meaning of life (spoiler alert: it’s snacks).
But knowing one language isn’t enough, and we want our pets to stay ahead of the game by becoming bilingual, or even multilingual. The app provides different language settings, including the option to learn the language of other species. It can be ruff for different pets of the same household to understand each other, so Learn With Paws teaches meows to dogs, barks to cats, chirps to bearded dragons, and more.
Art & Creative Self-Expression
As a studio that fosters creativity, we had to include an interactive that allows pets to express themselves artistically. Pets take virtual painting sessions with Master Artist Tarantula who uses her eight legs to spi-draw beautiful illustrations. Pets can put final flourishes on their artwork by taking selfies with their artwork and then sending it to their owners. All drawings and images are saved to the tablet so owners can keep mementos of their pets and never run out of pet photos to share with friends.
Math & Snack Trax
To help pets excel in STEM, Learn With Paws offers a variety of mathematical pet exercises. The app allows pets to complete exercises where they count how much kibble is in the bowl, how much kibble got added, how much kibble remains after some of it is eaten, and how much kibble they have already eaten. Advanced pets are given the opportunity to move on to multiplication and division.
Building off the counting algorithm, the app allows pets to set their snack goals each day and count how many meals remain and in how many hours. Pets like flying squirrels can also use in-app geolocation features to mark where they have buried or hidden snacks around their home for easier location later.
Behavior & Petiquette
The app teaches pets how to be well-behaved by defining appropriate petiquette, which focuses on manners, resisting the urge to bite or scratch, behaving well with guests, and more. To teach petiquette, humans and their pets co-view videos of animals with A+ manners. For instance, we offer sessions of the exemplary Marquis, a cat who never scratches, eats his meals with a fork, and puts items that he knocks down back in their spots.
The app addresses common pet-on-human bullying, like cats sitting on their owners’ faces to wake them up for no reason. Learn With Paws helps pets understand that some human actions are “perceived bullying” and not actual bullying, like a human not letting their dog roll around on something decaying in the yard.
Once your cat knocks your tablet off the table in disgust and shatters the screen, it’s time to move to an offline activity!
Peer Mediation
For households with multiple pets, the app offers peer mediation to help resolve conflicts among pets. The human takes on the role of neutral peer mediator and helps the disagreeing pets come to a mutual agreement. As the owner determines the root cause of unhappiness (i.e., why is the cat really trying to eat the goldfish? Maybe he’s not hungry, maybe the goldfish triggered the cat) he or she builds empathy among the animals, allowing them to come to a resolution without punishment. If the human isn’t home, that app provides simulated scenarios to circumvent common pet vs. pet conflicts that they can play through by themselves. No more fighting like cats and dogs – only peace among the pets.
Learn With Paws is just the beginning of our journey of offering direct-to-pet media. We’re currently working on a pet physical education app to help animals stay fit, with various online courses like Hop & HIIT, puplates, and snoga. In the meantime, download Learn With Paws now to help your pets grow into kinder and wiser animals. We double dog dare you.
