Whisker Feeder-Robot is a pet feeder robot with a refreshingly terrestrial job: hold plenty of dry food, divide it into flexible portions, and share an app with connected Whisker devices. It holds up to 32 cups without the hopper insert,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Read a story about how the Presence Mobile App became a handy tool to keep track of two anxious dogs during a storm. If you leave your dogs at home, this can be helpful.
Nothing could’ve prepared me for the shenanigans that my twelve-year-old beagle Roxy gets into when we head out for a few hours. Petcams have given us the ability to see what happens when we leave our best friends home alone.
The best thing about using the Rover app was that Katie and I had probably crossed paths before but our dogs may never have become best friends if we hadn’t both used Rover. In the modern world where couples meet each other through dating apps, why wouldn’t my dog meet his best friend via an app, too?