FitBits for dogs and cats

[John Brunner]

CNET Article

Health-Tracking Pet Collar Acts Like a Smartwatch for Dogs and Cats​

There is now a health tracking collar for dogs and cats. It monitors heart rate, respiration, sleeping habits and "scratching behaviour" to alert you to abnormalities and provide baseline data for your vet. It also has GPS tracking so you can track your critter's travels, in addition to locating where it is.

There is an AI-generated Health Hub, which learns from the data captured from "millions of animals." It requires a cell subscription to capture and analyze the data. Data continues to be captured when there's no cell signal, and uploads it when there is.

The one-year plan costs $120, the two-year plan costs $168, and the five-year plan costs $300. You also gotta download an App.

Even your pet cannot escape the watchful eye of Big Brother. I eagerly await the first court case when GPS records are subpoenaed because your neighbor keeps finding poop in his yard and you refuse to hand over a DNA sample.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

Reminds me of the old Planet of the Apes films.

s the story played out, humanity had destroyed itself. This happened when dogs and cats were wiped out by a plague and petters turned to simians. They soon trained and turned them into slaves, and eventually the slaves revolted against the dwindling numbers of growingly infertile humans.

It was the IVF mutants who had launched the bombs as a last resort. I believe we saw the remnants of the mutants in the second film, set during Ape Times in the future.

 

[John Brunner]

Reminds me of the old Planet of the Apes films.

s the story played out, humanity had destroyed itself. This happened when dogs and cats were wiped out by a plague and petters turned to simians. They soon trained and turned them into slaves, and eventually the slaves revolted against the dwindling numbers of growingly infertile humans.

It was the IVF mutants who had launched the bombs as a last resort. I believe we saw the remnants of the mutants in the second film, set during Ape Times in the future.

Interesting that the novel was written by a Frenchman, and the final scene was a destroyed Statue of Liberty.

So...would you put one of these trackers on your monkey?

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

Interesting that the novel was written by a Frenchman, and the final scene was a destroyed Statue of Liberty.

So...would you put one of these trackers on your monkey?

Me? I'm too cheap.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Interesting that the novel was written by a Frenchman, and the final scene was a destroyed Statue of Liberty.

So...would you put one of these trackers on your monkey?

another song ,thanks.
That Frenchman should've minded his own bizwax. We don't need the worlds indigents or freeloaders either.
Not how we were founded or progressed, but it is how we will be eliminated.
Then again all empires throughout history fall one time or another.

 

[Shirley Martin]

Some people have more money than they do sense.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I guess it was bound to come to that, and I think that it might be a good idea for some pets, at least for a dog. I know that people put Apple AirTags on their pets in case they get lost, and it seems to work good unless they are able to get the collar off, or gone so lung the battery runs down and they can’t be tracked anymore.
I am not against the idea, but neither am I about to get one for Poodle. I am totally in favor of people having something like a FitBit or Apple Watch, and i know those can save lives; so it might do the same for a pet as well.

 

[John Brunner]

I guess it was bound to come to that, and I think that it might be a good idea for some pets, at least for a dog. I know that people put Apple AirTags on their pets in case they get lost, and it seems to work good unless they are able to get the collar off, or gone so lung the battery runs down and they can’t be tracked anymore.
I am not against the idea, but neither am I about to get one for Poodle. I am totally in favor of people having something like a FitBit or Apple Watch, and i know those can save lives; so it might do the same for a pet as well.

I was wondering if anyone saw any health (not "lost pet") benefit to this. I can't think of a single pet I've ever been around (mine or anyone else's) that could benefit from this. It looks like a solution in pursuit of a problem.

 

[Marie Mallory]

 

[Marie Mallory]

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I was wondering if anyone saw any health (not "lost pet") benefit to this. I can't think of a single pet I've ever been around (mine or anyone else's) that could benefit from this. It looks like a solution in pursuit of a problem.

I think that if a person has a pet with a health situation that they are monitoring, then one of the doggie FitBits might be really helpful, it would be a great way to monitor their health, since we can’t really know how they are feeling, and you could do it with out taking them to the vet for tests.
Unless there was a medical reason to be monitoring their heart rate and such, I would not pay to have one of these devices for my dog,

Many people are using the Apple AirTags on their pets to locate them if they are lost, and that seems to work fine unless the pet manages to lose the collar with the AirTag. Rusty and Poodle only go out into the back yard, so we dont use anything like that to monitor them, either.