Your pet’s app has produced 78 screenshots, three orange alerts, a sleep score, and one graph that appears personally disappointed in Tuesday. It all feels like pet health data your veterinarian should see. The harder question is what any of…
The gadget may arrive in one box, but a connected pet product is rarely a one-and-done relationship. The company behind your pet tech may run the app, store the video, process the location alerts, bill the subscription, and decide how…
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 civil right. The catch is that these doors solve very different problems. Some move…
There was a cat on my parents’ kitchen counter. My parents don’t have a cat—or so I thought. Yet there he was, a huge cat sitting comfortably on the counter between the toaster and my mom’s spices, some of which…
Picture five big dogs using the same pet door before breakfast, after school, and every time the backyard gets interesting. Pawport is built for that kind of hard-working opening: a smart, motorized retrofit cover that adds controlled tag access, schedules,…
As of 10/15/26, we are no longer recommending Wayzn products. Please visit our article about the Best Electronic Dog Doors for alternate recommendations. The Wayzn smart pet door is a different kind of pet-door solution: it opens the human sliding…
A WiFi pet door sounds wonderfully civilized right up until the router takes a personal day. Then the question gets much less glamorous: can the dog still get out, can you still lock the thing, and do you have any…
Luna started crying halfway through my meeting. Not meowing. Crying. The full baby-left-near-a-sliding-glass-door sound that makes people on a video call stop speaking and reconsider what kind of home office you are operating. “That’s my cat,” I explained. Luna looked…
Choosing an automatic dog door for your home isn’t one decision. It’s four stacked on top of each other: where your pet naturally walks, how much human doorway you’re willing to give up, whether the pet needs a large opening…
Microchip cat door training gets complicated the moment a second cat has an opinion. One will march through the new flap like she commissioned it personally. The other will regard it as a haunted lunchbox you have installed in the…