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Your Pet Doesn’t Need Gadgets
All they need is love
I could have saved a lot of panties.
That was my first thought upon reading about the “Companion Collar,” a next-gen satellite-linked smart collar for dogs and cats that didn’t exist when Peanut, my underwear-devouring Rat Terrier, was going through his troubled teenage years.
Granted, my dog-chewed drawers might not have been salvageable. But with a Companion Collar (slated for release in spring 2022), I could have satellite-tracked Peanut’s movements, compiled the data on his underwear-eating behavior — when, why, and how — and received real-time alerts on his panty-thieving antics through a cellphone app.
Even better, I might have figured out where in the depths of the yard (oh god, I hope it wasn’t the neighbors!) my beloved canine companion buried two years’ worth of my undergarments.
Now we have a new puppy in the household, Nova — an 8-month-old bounding black bundle of sheer Labrador enthusiasm and good cheer. Aka, exhaustively energetic. Nova has (thank goodness) yet to develop an underwear obsession. But she does love to play tug of war, dig up the yard, chase balls (and the cats), steal one shoe (and only one) from every pair of shoes in the household, tear apart the garden fence (because those are BIG sticks) and run, run, run.
