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December 11, 2015
Q. You may not be a dog-whisperer, but how is technology aiding in the care of your canine companion?
A. A “Fitbit for dogs” named Whistle is a round collar tag that uses an accelerometer to track “how much exercise a dog should get based on its breed, age and size and allows owners to track medication and log meals.” All data are then sent to a smartphone app, says Ellen Lee in IEEE Spectrum magazine. For example, the owners of 3-month-old puppy Sara were warned that she had exceeded her target exercise by 30 minutes and had they acted immediately, they might have averted a messy cleanup from Sara tearing apart her pee pad and ripping up her bed.
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