Smart Technology for Man’s Best Friend

No, I’m not saying there’s an app for that but we humans have smart phones and now dogs can have smart collars. This new devise uses wireless technology in a collar your cat or dog wears and is made by PetPace. It monitors their health for you and feeds real time data to you and the vet. The collar costs 150 bucks and the monitoring fee is 15 bucks a month which considering what we spend on our pets seems pretty reasonable. Data on your pet’s temperature, pulse, respiration, activity patterns, and number of calories burned is compared with other breed specific information and if there is a discrepancy an alert goes to the owner’s smart phone and your pet’s vet. Apparently some pets tend to hide their symptoms when they are sick and this device makes sure that your pet’s disease, discomfort or pain will not go unnoticed. Now if they can develop a wireless collar that could zap fleas in real time (because everybody knows the regular old fashioned ones on the market today don’t work) I would definitely be interested.