i took a couple flash classes i'd need a refresher to help you with coding but from a visual point of view i can help a bit

the one big thing that i think would help you a lot is to slow the background frames down (if you have it on a different time-line hoping you do o.o) right now its just a little too fast which gives the look of the robo pet almost sliding as he walks. Really it just shows there is a distinct separation between the animal animation and the background.

over all its really good for an animation love the tail wag its very fluid
the other thing if you want to get it more fluid looking animation is to work how much and where you move the pieces personally i do frame by frame drawn then i edit the parts needed (as in erase and redraw) but i'm old school with animation i like hand drawn as much as computer stuff =P

i'd say all in all great work keep it up best way to learn is to keep playing with flash and reading tutorials see what works best for you.

Thank you very very much. I will definitely take all of that and revisit it :)

Honestly, the only problem I had was figuring out what to do, the buttons, if that's what they are called, are really difficult to understand. XD I had to click a lot and drag and stuff.

Other then that, I don't know anything about animation. XD Good job! =)

Can you think of a way to make it more obvious that those are my buttons?

Make it almost like a light switch plate? Draw a square around it, and give the "button" a more 3-d look, maybe have an arrow decoration on the switch plate of it. Or a simple " Push Me " written under it. XD