Gravity dog feeders and timed automatic feeders look like cousins in the product aisle: reservoir on top, bowl on the bottom, dinner somewhere in the middle. They are doing different jobs, and the resemblance has launched plenty of wrong purchases.…
Your cat has a talent for placing one small paw on your arm and making your entire heart go soft. That same paw may be inside the food dispenser chute forty minutes later, conducting an unauthorized inspection. This is one…
The best gadgets for senior dogs do something more interesting than count birthdays. They notice a 2 a.m. hallway tour, warm a favorite nap without turning it into a sauna, or give a beloved gray muzzle a new way to…
The best dog gadgets feel a little bit magical. A tracker turns a heart-stopping “Where did she go?” into a moving dot on a map. A talking button gives your dog a gloriously dramatic new way to request OUTSIDE. A…
Cat people know the uniquely humbling thrill of buying something sophisticated for a family member who once chose the shipping box. Cats do like technology; they simply reserve the right to review it with brutal honesty. A fountain can turn…
Shopping for pet gadgets can make a normal Tuesday look wildly under-engineered. Apparently your cat needs a bathroom with an app, your dog needs a fitness dashboard, and the water bowl has been waiting its whole life for Wi-Fi. Some…
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…
The best smart pet door does more than put a small icon on your phone. It gives you control you’ll use every day — a remote lock before a storm, an alert confirming the dog came in before you left…
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…