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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 solve a specific household problem. Maybe your cat begins breakfast negotiations at 4:52 a.m. Maybe your large dog needs dinner while…
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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
A pet vacuum sounds simple until you look at the mess in a home with pets. Dog hair packed into carpet is one job. Fine cat…
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Complete Guide to Pet DNA Tests
A pet dna test usually starts with a very normal argument in your house. The shelter paperwork says “Lab mix,” your dog looks like three other…
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Complete Guide to Pet Microchip Scanners
A pet microchip scanner sounds like niche clinic equipment until you need one right now. That usually happens when you find a loose dog roaming the…
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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…
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The Dogs of Tech Lore, From Rufus to Fluffy Bunny
The dogs of tech are not all the same kind of story. Some dogs changed office policy. Some gave a company its name. Some became memes, mascots, family celebrities, work companions, or public proof that a very serious executive still lived in a house…
