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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 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…
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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
A pet vacuum sounds simple until you look at the mess in a home with pets. Dog hair packed into carpet is…
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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…
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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…
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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
A programmable pet feeder is a small food-storage system attached to a clock, a motor, and several opportunities for kibble to express itself creatively. At the scheduled time, the controller activates a dispensing mechanism or moves a covered tray. Sensors may confirm that something…
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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…
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Smart Pet Feeders and App Control: What Still Works Offline
A smart pet feeder is four systems wearing one plastic coat: a clock and meal schedule, a motor, a power source, and an internet-connected app. When everything cooperates, it looks like one tidy appliance. When something fails, ask a more useful question than “Is…
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Dog-Proof Cat Feeding Setups for Shared Pet Homes
A cat food dispenser dog proof setup is rarely one heroic gadget. It is a set of layers: the bowl controls access, the room controls approach, and the placement keeps the dog from hovering close enough to turn the cat’s authorized meal into a…
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My Large Dog Treated the Auto Feeder Like a Puzzle, So I Changed the Rules
The first warning was the sound of plastic scraping slowly across my kitchen floor. This was not the outcome I pictured when I went looking for a large dog auto feeder. Batman had his nose pressed against his new auto dog feeder. He pushed.…
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The Timed Dog Feeder Mistake That Made Breakfast Weird for a Week
At exactly 8:30 on Friday morning, my timed dog feeder began dropping kibble into Batman’s bowl. This would have been unremarkable except that I had fed him breakfast about 20 minutes earlier. Batman lifted his head from the kitchen floor and moved toward the…
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Gravity Feeder vs Automatic Pet Feeder: Which Problem Are You Solving?
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. A old fashioned gravity…
