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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 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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Buying Guide: Best Interactive Dog Toys
While dog toys come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, textures, and durability, interactive dog toys have the ablity to react or respond to your dog’s…
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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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Buying Guide: How Dog Talking Buttons Are Changing the Way Dogs Communicate
Imagine walking into your living room and hearing your dog press a button that says “outside.” Or “hungry.” Or, in some cases, “love you.” No, you’re…
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Pet Air Purifier Buying Guide: How to Choose for Dander, Hair, and Odor
When your dog has shaken rain onto the rug, your cat has claimed the bedroom, and a freshly scooped litter box still seems to have an…
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A PetCam App Caught My Thieving Beagle
Nothing could’ve prepared me for the shenanigans that my twelve-year-old beagle Roxy gets into when we head out for a few hours. Petcams have given us the ability to see what happens when we leave our best friends home alone.
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Wireless Dog Fence vs Electric Dog Fence: What Works for Your Yard?
“Wireless dog fence vs electric dog fence” sounds like a dramatic Game of Thrones showdown. The reality? It’s a terminology mess that can make picking the right solution for you confusing. At the dog park, people talk about wireless, electric, and invisible like they’re…
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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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Universal Pet Microchip Scanner Guide: ISO, AVID, RFID, and When You Need a Stick Reader
A porch cat finally lets you stroke her shoulders. An RFID pet scanner may be the tool in your hand. You may have one calm chance to scan her. The reader must recognize her chip without turning that trust into a struggle. Like you,…
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An Anxious Dog and a Thunderstorm
Read a story about how the Presence Mobile App became a handy tool to keep track of two anxious dogs during a storm. If you leave your dogs at home, this can be helpful.
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Where to find a Pet Microchip Scanner near you and When to Buy Your Own
A pet chip scanner near me search sounds like a map problem. Most of the time, it is really a reliability problem. The dog showed up after hours. The shelter is closed. The clinic you trust is twenty minutes away and may or may…
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My Cat Rode Roomba Like a Tiny UFO and Somehow the Floor Got Cleaner
The first time I saw Cali riding the robot vacuum, I did not think, “This will finally teach me something useful about robot vacuum expectations in cat homes.” I thought, “My cat has joined the space program.” This is how my robot vacuum for…
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Testing Luna with an At-Home Cat DNA Test Because Curiosity Finally Won
I decided to order an at home cat dna test because Luna yelled at a toy mouse. That is not the scientific version of the story, but it is the honest one. She had dragged this gray mouse into the hallway and was making…
