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Smart Pet Gadgets: How to Choose Tech for Dogs and Cats
Feeders, trackers, cameras, doors, toys. Work out which smart pet gadgets actually fit your dog, your cat, your home, and the routine you already keep.
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Complete Guide to GPS Pet Trackers
A pet gps tracker is easy to misunderstand because shopping pages use the same words for very different jobs. One device shows a moving dot in…
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Complete Guide to Automatic Pet Feeders for Dogs and Cats
An automatic pet feeder should make mealtimes easier without asking your pet to adapt to the wrong routine. Maybe your cat begins breakfast negotiations at 4:52…
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Complete Guide to Automatic Pet Doors for Dogs and Cats
By the ninth “can you let me out?” of the day, an automatic pet door starts to sound less like a gadget and more like a…
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Pet Vacuum Guide: Choosing the Right Vacuum for Pet Hair at Home
Your pet does not know the living room was just vacuumed. The dog settles on the rug. The cat leaves the litter box. Soon, fur and…
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Complete Guide to Pet DNA Tests
A pet DNA test often begins with everybody looking at the same beloved animal and seeing something different. The shelter called your dog a Lab mix,…
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Complete Guide to Pet Microchip Scanners
Most of us do not spend an ordinary day thinking about a pet microchip scanner. Then a loose dog turns up near dinner, a neighborhood cat…
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How to Dress Up Like Your Pet for Halloween
If you want to dress up like your pet for Halloween, generic ears and three whiskers will not do. You are dressing as your cat or dog: the one with the crooked ear, single white sock, and chest patch shaped vaguely like a minor…
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An Apple AirTag Pet Tracker Seemed Perfect Until Her Cat Went Outside
Nina told me the AirTag idea started in the apartment, which is exactly where an AirTag can make a person feel like she has finally outsmarted a cat. This is always a risky emotional position. Her cat Miso had always been an indoor mystery…
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I Bought Longer Leashes and Learned I Needed a Cat Tracker, Not a Cat Tracker App
Cali had moved maybe two inches in ten minutes, which for her was apparently a rich and challenging travel day. She was in a sunny patch of grass near my building with her paws tucked under her calico body, studying one blade like it…
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My Friend’s Papillon Taught Me Why a GPS Dog Collar for Small Dogs Needs a Walk Test
This is a story about picking a GPS dog collar for Pippi, a very small dog. The first thing you should know about Pippi is that she was named after Pippi Longstocking, and she has accepted the assignment with her whole tiny body. Pippi…
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How my lost dog GPS Tracker saved the day when my dog Batman got lost on vacation
The moment I knew I had become a person who believes in a lost dog gps tracker, I was standing in the doorway of a Hudson Valley Airbnb holding Batman’s leash and staring at a room where Batman was not. This is not how…
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Can You Track a Microchipped Cat or Dog? Chip vs GPS Reality
If you are trying to track a microchipped cat from your phone, the answer is no. That is not a technicality. A microchip is not a live map, not a gps chip for cats, and not a tiny broadcast device under the skin. It…
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Dog GPS Trackers for Outdoorsy Dogs: Range, Maps, and Waterproofing
A waterproof dog tracker sounds like the answer when your dog treats every walk like a field study in mud, lake edges, pine needles, wet grass, and whatever smelled interesting behind the picnic area. Water matters, but it is only one part of choosing…
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Cat Tracker Fit and Breakaway Collar Safety
The smallest gps tracker for cats sounds like the safe answer until the collar is on the cat. Then the real test starts: does the tracker sit flat, does the breakaway clasp still work, and does your cat move like herself instead of like…
