The Best Smart Toys for Your Pets
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If you’re the proud parent of a furbaby, you may want to consider investing in one of the many smart pet toys that are available right now.
From treat dispensing training toys that reward positive behavior to HD cameras that you can use to view your pet remotely. There are many smart pet toys that can keep your furry friends happily entertained, and help reduce their separation anxiety while you’re at work.
Here are the best smart toys for your pets.
1. PupPod Gaming, Training, and Enrichment System for Dogs
This PupPod Gaming, Training and Enrichment System for Dogs combines a puzzle toy, treat dispenser, video feeder, and mobile app, to keep the goodest of boys or girls busy and happy. With it, you can turn your pooch’s mealtimes into a fun activity, and even enjoy playtime with your pup remotely.
PupPod reinforces good behavior through operant conditioning, dispensing treats from the vending hole on the video rocker as a reward for progress in its clicker training. The HD camera lets you keep tabs on your dog via your smartphone with live video streaming, and track their gameplay stats, the number of treats won, and so on.
The PupPod Rocker emits various sounds, which encourage your dog to rush over to it. Response to the correct type of sound (tapping the Rocker with a paw), results in a treat being flung from the Video Feeder. Tapping the Rocker in response to the wrong kind of sound, such as a doorbell noise, equals no treats.
A great means of encouraging positive reinforcement training, boosting doggos’ exercise levels, and reducing their anxiety and stress while you’re away from the home. And as your best pal progresses, you can utilize different levels of sound emission, with even more randomized sounds for them to distinguish between each time, to earn their treats.
2. Petcube Play 2 Wi-Fi Pet Camera with Laser Toy & Alexa Built-In
Suitable for both canines and felines, the Petcube Play 2 Wi-Fi Pet Camera with Lazer Toy offers 24/7 pet monitoring. The Petcube itself features a 1080p HD video and night vision camera, has Alexa built-in, and two-way audio with a four-microphone array. It offers a 160-degree view of the room and is responsive to motion and sound alerts.
A pet-safe laser toy can be deployed from the top of the Petcube, which will dance around your carpet while your furbaby leaps about with delight; keeping it happily occupied for hours. You can use the two-way audio to talk to, and even hear your pet remotely. Great for soothing anxious pets whenever life compels you to be absent from home for any length of time.
Built-in Alexa functionality allows your Petcube to play music for your pets, or engage the party laser for them to play with, and can also be used to control your smart home devices too. Receive text notifications when pet sounds alert Petcube to any kind of potential disturbance, so you could check in with them on the app.
Petcube even has a Vet Chat app built-in, to offer medical peace of mind, if needed. Petcube offers Mrs. Doubtfire levels of nannying for your precious pets, keeping them active and happily entertained until your return.
3. Wickedbone Smart Bone
Give a dog a bone. But not just any bone. Try a Wickedbone Smart Bone. This app-controlled interactive dog bone toy is safe and durable and can keep your dog expertly entertained for hours at a time. Choose from interactive auto-play modes, or use the joystick in drive mode on the Wickedbone app to propel this motorized bone across the floor.
Built to react to your dog’s actions, the interactive mode offers a series of flips, spins, and turns as part of Wickedbone’s motions. It will chase after your dog when it runs, and run away from it when it turns around. It has 12 different types of emotionally driven systems built in so that it can learn to react to your dog’s mood, with the appropriate motion.
Made from FDA food-grade polycarbonate, Wickedbone is safe for chewing, and it can be easily cleaned too. It runs for 30 minutes in app mode on a full charge, or for more than two hours in interactive mode. Customize the settings on the app to control speed, acceleration, swerve, etc., and then set it loose!
4. SKYMEE Owl Robot: Mobile Full HD Pet Camera with Treat Dispenser
If you own a cat or dog and are looking for a smart toy that resembles neither, but is a ‘hoot’ nonetheless, then the SKYMEE Owl Robot could be one to consider. This is a mobile HD pet camera with a built-in treat dispenser that can be remote controlled via your smartphone with the SKYMEE app.
This owl robot uses smart interaction to engage your pets in games of hide and seek. Multiple actions are triggered via infrared sensors, to enable it to interact with your pet for active play. The onboard camera is 1080p HD with 4x zoom and night vision, to help you track your pet’s whereabouts. Two-way audio also allows you to speak remotely with your pets when you’re out of the house.
Leaving a trail of treats to lure your pet with, this HD Hedwig has no trouble keeping them busy and active during those times when you could’t. Suitable for hardwood floors or thin carpets, the SKYMEE Owl Robot can run for up to eight hours on a full charge, while the camera can record video for you to playback.
5. pumpkii Pet Camera Robot
The Pumpkii Pet Camera Robot is an interactive cat teaser toy, with an HD camera and app control, and a built-in pet feeder. A removable cat teaser toy sits atop a flexible mast, and can be manually controlled via the app, or automatically controlled by Pumpkii, for your kitty to bat back and forth as they please.
Pumpkii travels and spins on its two large wheels to give your cat more of a chase challenge, to keep them nice and active. The treat dispenser can be pre-set using the Pumpkii app to shell out tasty tidbits at your discretion, and the wide-angle 1080p HD camera with night vision can help you keep track of mischievous moggies, no matter where they’re hiding.
With two-way audio allowing you to say ‘hello kitty’ to your cat (and hear their grateful purrs in response), plus the ability to record video too, you have everything you need here to actively surveil your pet like a professional. Remote video tracking and peace of mind for pet owners, you’ll never have to worry whether you ‘tawt you taw a puddy tat’ again.
6. HEUHAI Smart Cat Toy
Possibly even more entertaining for pet owners than for its target audience, this HEUHAI Smart Cat Toy is a robotic mouse toy that is bound to drive your kitty into an absolute frenzy (in the best possible way, of course). Its springy tail can be fitted with a number of different colorful fluffy balls, for your cat to chase down and ravage.
Connecting with the HEUHAI app gives you access to a smartphone remote control, allowing you to lead the chase at home. Making you Jerry to your resident Tom, you can enjoy the havoc that ensues. This mouse can run for up to 60 minutes on a full charge or until it gets destroyed (whichever happens first).
Although this smart toy does require to be manually controlled and is somewhat limited by the number of surfaces it can easily move across, it still provides great fun for cat owners and cats alike.
Q: How Does a Pet Camera Work?
Most pet cameras work by using a monitor that links directly to a mobile app. The camera sends motion and sound notifications to your phone, letting you look at the live recording of your pet.
Some pet cams even allow video storage, collecting video of your pet for you to watch at your convenience.
Q: Can a Pet Camera Help With Separation Anxiety?
Pet cameras play an integral role in diagnosing, managing, and treating a pet’s separation anxiety.
When working through a separation anxiety treatment plan, you need to make sure that your pet is never left alone for longer than it can handle.
Q: Are Treat Dispensing Pet Toys a Good Idea?
Yes. They’re perfect for dogs and cats who make mischief when they’re bored or become destructive when left alone.
Treat-dispensing toys are also useful if your pet eats too quickly, as the toys often force them to eat one bite at a time.
