PetHealth

For the pet who’s home alone

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High-tech happiness Technology has given us more tools to live easier, healthier lives, and with pet tech we can include our pets in this development. And there’s so much more to come, with startups working on ideas like pet social networks and televet diagnostics and treatment solutions. As pet tech develops, our motivations stay the same – ensuring our pets are the happiest and healthiest they can be.

never want to touch kitty litter again, the CatGenie works kind of like a dishwasher and a toilet combined. When your cat urinates in the CatGenie, urine soaks into granules that get washed later. When it poos, an automated scooper swings down to collect and flush it away via an attachment that connects to a household drain or toilet. The washable granules are cleaned with a sanitising solution. To keep your pet moving and engaged while you’re not home, dogs can play their favourite game for hours with automatic ball launcher iFetch.

Forget talking to our pets. What if they could talk to us? While it’s too early for solid scientific proof, there is anecdotal evidence about the effectiveness of pet talking buttons. These are buttons with preprogrammed words like ‘walk’ and ‘toy’. With repetition over time, you can teach your pet to press the buttons to ‘tell’ you when they want to play or go for a walk. A good start to ‘talk training’ is using one button to teach your pet one request. The Mighty Paw Smart Bell 2.0 is a wireless dog doorbell that all wish our pets could talk 5 Because we

With many of us going between home and the office under hybrid work, it’s crucial for our pet’s health that we consistently meet their food, hygiene, exercise help here, with options that are automated in a set-and-forget way, or app-controlled and interactive. Automatic pet feeders dispense food at certain times and in specified amounts so you can manage mealtime remotely. PETKIT’s Mini Solo Smart Feeder can be programmed and controlled from anywhere using your phone. It stores multiple meals and allows you to set up a feeding plan, check food status and schedule feeding times remotely. Automatic litter boxes can help maintain good hygiene for your cat. For those who and entertainment needs. Pet tech can

your dog can press when they need to relieve themselves. Once your dog presses or pushes on it, a ringtone will alert you to open the door for them. You can put one outside as well, so they can tell you when they’re ready to come back in. Whether our pets are really talking to us or just pushing our buttons, talking buttons are still beneficial, as they provide mental stimulation. The time spent training together also helps boost your human–pet bond, so whether they’re able to tell you ‘love you’ or not, you’re sure to feel like they do.

Just program a distance on the machine and it

shoots out balls for your dog to return.

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