The technology should remind you of that pet GPS collar which sends email alerts to the pet owner when Rover dashes outside of the confines of his monitored fenced-in yard.
The fitness goal range is set to a sliding scale, so that minor increases or decreases to the goals can be set to whatever a beginner or average pet owner may find achievable.
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Data uploaded to the cloud can be viewed on a special pet owner web page, while transitions over time can be displayed as graphs, making them easier to understand and facilitating the instant detection of any changes in a pet's health.
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Oxytocin in particular is crucial in bonding partner to partner (levels correlate with the success of a relationship), as well as parent to child, even pet-owner to pet.
And, as I said, if either pet or owner feels in need of counseling, they can travel to the basement where Annie Germani, the dog psychic, holds court.
When a pet-shop owner picked out an African Grey for her in 1977, she says she already expected that it would come to change the way people thought about the minds of animals.
For the rescuers and volunteers seeing a pet reunited with its owner fuels their effort.
"If Horace had not been microchipped it would have been extremely unlikely that owner and pet would ever have met again, " he added.
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Victoria Park, owner of Park Pet Supply in Atlanta, says self-cleaning varieties get top billing during this time of the year, particularly for long-haired dogs.
The other company had failed to pick up a pet on time, and the owner was irate.
"Our clients don't see animals just as animals, " says Daniela Guimaraes, the owner of Animalle Mundo Pet.
After initially refusing to open it, the bag's owner reluctantly revealed that his pet was inside.
"It's becoming a national movement, " says Penny Jones-Napier, owner of the Big Bad Woof pet store in Hyattsville, Maryland, the first business in the US to adopt the new benefit corporation designation.
No matter where you acquire a pet, love it for life, be a responsible owner.
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The National Dog Registry recommends on its website that a number of the owner's choice be tattooed on the pet in an easily visible spot.
Heidi's owner Amanda Williams, from Christchurch, said her pet took to it like a "duck to water".
Formal provisions can ensure a pet will receive proper care in a loving home after its owner has passed away.
Howard was known by his employees and acquaintances as a hands-off business owner, preferring instead to spend the family fortune on pet projects.
As Kramer's new owner drove away from our house, thus ended my childhood interest in any pet not covered in fur.
It was only when owner Mervat Ciuiti was in a cab on the M1 that she realised her pet had come with her.
This mental calculation looms more largely in an owner's mind as a dog gets older, and thoughts turn to how long the pet has left.
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