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How a Bathroom Button Built for One Senior Dog Became a Lifeline | Dog Tech
· 35 min · Episode 122 · Explicit
Episode How a Bathroom Button Built for One Senior Dog Became a Lifeline | Dog Tech
How would you know your senior dog needed to go out if you weren’t in the same room?
As a dog gets older, their legs weaken and the gap between needing to go out and having an accident keeps shrinking. You can’t always be there to catch it. That exact problem led a financial planner with no dog training background to build a button his aging dog could press to send a notification straight to his phone. What started as a simple potty alert has since found a purpose nobody planned for, and it’s now in the hands of service dog handlers and people living alone in nine countries.
You’ll hear:
• How Champ’s weakening back legs and shrinking bathroom window sparked the first idea • The message from a service dog handler’s family that changed the product’s whole direction • Why the alert goes to the people you choose instead of straight to 911 • What it really took to bring a first product to life with no background in engineering or dogs
Press play if you’ve ever worried about what your dog needs when you’re not right there to see it.
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This podcast explores dog training, dog behavior, dog behavior problems, dog obedience, dog training advice, dog training tips, dog training methods, dog training at home, service dog training, dog anxiety, dog separation anxiety, reactive dogs, dog reactivity, and dog body language. Episodes also cover canine nutrition, dog food, dog enrichment, mental stimulation for dogs, senior dogs, pet loss, and life with dogs. It’s a dog community for people who want to better understand the dog in front of them, make sense of conflicting advice, improve the relationship with their dog, and figure out what actually works for their dog.
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