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Every dog piece we’ve published, in one place. Guides for when you’re deciding, reviews for when you’ve narrowed it down, and stories about pets and the devices that enrich their lives.
Buying Guides
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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…
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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…
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Smart Pet Gadgets: How to Choose Tech for Dogs and Cats
Shopping for pet gadgets can make a normal Tuesday look wildly under-engineered. Apparently your cat needs a bathroom with an app, your…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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…
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How Automatic Pet Feeders Work: Timers, Portions, Sensors, and Jams
The real test of a programmable pet feeder is not whether the app says “meal served.” It is whether food lands in the bowl at the expected time, in an amount that makes sense, and whether your pet feels comfortable enough to eat it.…
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Automatic Pet Feeder with Camera: Monitoring Can Make You a Better Pet Parent
An automatic pet feeder with camera can answer a useful set of small questions. Is food visible near the bowl? Did the dog arrive at the usual time? Did the cat pause, sniff, and leave? Did another pet treat the scheduled meal as an…
