Is there a way to deselect 1 filter after using it?

Good day, I hope you can help me with the following:

I am making a site with a lots of photos. I want to use the buttons for the filters and apply more then one at the same time (for example “animals” -> “black background” -> “birds”). This is no problem, but when I’ve see the birds, I want to change to “cats”. And there is the problem! There are no photo’s. That’s logical, because I have no photo’s from birds and cats together. So I must deselect “birds”, so it lets me see all the photo’s with cats and a black background. Normally clicking the “bird” button again will deselect is, but this isn’t working. I have to go to “all” and start my selection again. Is there an easy fix to make clicking once is select a button, clicking it again is deselecting it.

I hope to get an answer, thanks in advance!
Best regards,

Ellen