Dog-e-Minder keeps tabs on your dog's vitals so you don't have to (video)
By Darren Murph 
posted February 9th 2010 3:03PM
posted February 9th 2010 3:03PM
P.S. - There's also the Accuwalker for those of you who have no clue when the last time your pet was walked. Shame on you.
Dog-e-Minder Keeps Track of the Last Time Your Dog Was Walked, Fed and Received Medication
This easy-to-use, three-button system is the perfect pet assistant for dog owners; Dog-e-Minder is your dog's new best friend!
Hollywood, Florida - (February 09, 2010) – Dog-e-Minder, LLC, a company founded to create simple, easy-to-use products that assist pet owners with everyday tasks, unleashes the Dog-e-Minder. With just the push of a button, this innovative device records when your dog was last walked, fed and received medication. Perfect to use as a training aide or as a reminder for busy pet owners, multi-pet homes and pet-sitters/walkers, Dog-e-Minder takes the guesswork out of "pet parenting" and let's you rest assured that your pets are given the attention they deserve!
A business and family man, Dog-e-Minder co-founder Yair Shalev, designed this product with the busy dog owner in mind, and knows first-hand just how challenging it can be to keep things orderly at a time when people are doing more with a lot less.
"My family and I are big-time dog people. We love our dogs, but we're also really busy, all of the time," said Shalev. "Sometimes we all need a little help in making sure things stay on track. The Dog-e-Minder is the perfect assistant and reminder 'tool' to make sure our four-legged family members, who rely on us the most, are being taken care of – no questions asked."
The simple, three-button design is easy for any family member to use. Each button has a symbol related to an activity. The "fire hydrant" symbolizes walk time, the "dog bone" represents feeding time and the "RX" symbol records the last time medication was administered. When you perform any one of these activities, simply hold the corresponding button down for three seconds and the current date and time is saved. To view stored information, just press the appropriate button once, and the display shows the last time the task was completed. When idle, the Dog-e-Minder also acts as a dog identification tag, displaying important pet name and owner contact information.
Slender and lightweight (weighing less than a pound) the Dog-e-Minder conveniently attaches to your pet's collar. Whether attached to the collar of a rambunctious puppy or a mellow adult, the durable and waterproof casing will handle everything from fetching to swimming, in rain or sunshine. If you choose, the Dog-e-Minder can also attach to a key chain for easy access.
With a battery and backlight included, the Dog-e-Minder is easy to program and has an easy-to-read digital display. Available in four stylish colors (black, blue, pink and red) the Dog-e-Minder is only $19.95 and can be purchased at www.dogeminder.com. Purchase online now, and receive a second Dog-e-Minder, absolutely free.
i found a nickel in my pocked :D
@iroq d mullet
The nickel got you poked...
@TikiTeko
But wait! For all those who forget to push the Doggie Minder™ button. There's the Doggie Minder Reminder™! Just hang it from your own neck, this Doggie Minder Reminder™ gives you a slight zap of electricity to remind you or your good for nothing kids to push the f'n Doggie Minder™ button and not forget about it so the whole point of this device is ruined.
(Warning: entire advertisement was done by one of the owner's kid's using Apple's iMovie and LiveType's stock effects and a crappy handy-cam cause we are cheap bastards.)
Careful you don't mistake this for your tamagotchi...when it says feed, for god sake you better FEED!!
@TacticalTimbo thank god, now my dogs will stop dying.
@TacticalTimbo
umm... Puss-e-minder?
I used to have a Tamagotchi and the thing kept dying... Even though it beeped and all that.. That is why I never was given the real dog :(
Maybe this is hope those of us who went on Summer Camp, came back, and found sushi on the fish bowl :'(
I thought it was going to be keeping track of the dog's heart rate and other stuff like that.
@Khalid Shahin
It's hard to feasibly record heart rate on an animal with a mobile monitor.
What I was expecting, however, was RFID in a water bowl and food dish. I don't pour 3 squares a day for my dogs.
Why would I need a reminder of the last time If my dog ate if I was freaking THERE every time?
Engraving their name and my telephone number on a piece of metal makes for a better tag.
@Khalid Shahin
I thought it was for keeping track of where your dog had run off to. That would actually be something useful.
@(Unverified) I think those systems exist already. This is something more of a Digital Dog Tack that offers a few extras.
The Japanese also invented the Dog Translator already ! SO COOL
LOL.
Anyone else pick up on the crappy music?
Muzak rendition of Praise You by Fatboy Slim
Great article
ROFL @ Great article.
How about GPS or bluetooth plz and a color screen?
No way this is worth even 10$.
If I were to believe this commercial, owning a dog requires a Ph.D.
I love these ridiculous commercials to pitch shit products, who actually acts as dumb as these people?
@tklr08
A lot of great marketing surrounds building insecurity and fear. you NEED to know this CRUCIAL information! You will be safer and more secure if you buy this stuff!
It works really well. A lot of people will buy this product. I bet it outsells every non-self help or politics book in America in a year (those books are also marketted on fear).
So to answer your question: a lot of people are this stupid.
LOL to the "Change Your Life" in bold! hahaha
@Coolarj10 ....THIS IS VINCE FROM SLAPCHOP! STOP HAVING A BORING LIFE!.. lol
@werty1432k
HAHAHA! I looked up slapchop and saw the video on their website - that was absolutely hilarious!
Remember it only works when you remember to push the damn button!
looks cool... beats having to use google calendar to remember when i gave my dog heartworm pill
@Andywhite
I'm with you on this one. This can be very helpful for keeping track of when you last gave the heart-worm pill or flea medication.
Also that situation that's in the video has happened multiple times for me, my wife feeds the dogs, leaves the house, and then I end up feeding them again.
@Andywhite
Cell phone alarm. That's how I do it. Most phones have multiple alarms.
I think if you actually remember to check this passive tag, you already remembered to feed the dog.
That's the thing about dogs: they tell you when they need food and water. For medicine, I use alarms that will actually tell me if I forget. Telling me I forgot for a few days straight, when I remember to check the tag, is pretty worthless.
@(Unverified) Cellphone alarm would be good for the pills, but def not for other family members over feeding the dogs or not knowing if it was already taken out...
Any bets on when someone discovers a day-care using these for kids?
@RandomGuy ROFLOLMAO!!!! In my kid's daycare I found out they were using "stamps on them"... If he had a Mickey Mouse, he had already taken the morning snack.
You will think that it would be impossible fro a daycare to forget to feed a kid... but ... you gotta see some daycares.... I think MJ would have been a better sitter... :S
Yeah, change my life as in, now everyone who meets my dog knows my phone number.
@Velorium who says that's a bad thing??? eh???
@EdenW True, I suppose it depends what your angle is.
A pretty simple and practical product - especially for those who have more than one person managing their pet -
My dogs are smart enough to regulate their own feeding throughout the day without eating themselves into oblivion and becoming obese.
They don't try to eat the whole blasted bowl of food at once when I set it out for them...When the bowls are empty, I fill them. Simple enough. Smart dogs FTW...
I have an immensely stupid dog and I fill his feeder once a week and he never overeats, is trim and healthy. Never has a dog that needed to be restrained in that regard
@RandomGuy
Oh, those overeating dogs that require careful regulation of food intake are out there...Typically they had been abandoned at some point or have fear for some other reason that their food source will suddenly disappear.
I guess most well adjusted, well loved dogs (stupid or smart) won't gorge themselves if they realize that food will be there whenever they are hungry.
@Shane My dog went to Harvard and he still is crazy at eating.... No self-control.... When we are with our dogz at the club, he keeps stuffing his face. What's up with that?
My dog's a 8-month lab puppy, he eats any food you put in front of him, so I have to regulate his food (although he won't swallow anything non-food - just chews it and spits it out). He licks his bowl clean, gets every crumb - I wish he'd chew his food, sometimes he just swallows it whole. If you're eating something, he wants a piece. If I didn't walk him twice every day he'd be a fatty. I dread the day when we switch him from feeding twice a day to once a day.
@BetterThanBozo
No need to dread that day, just feed him less at both feedings and get him out for exercise more often. Like people, most dogs that are allowed to eat too much and get too little exercise, will start to pack on the pounds. The good thing about dogs is they normally, can shed the weight pretty quickly, with a few changes in the amount they are given to eat at any one time (for those that bolt it down) and getting out more often for walks.
I'll get this if it works as a tamagochi pokewalker and pedometer. And there has gotta be an app for that cuz I'm no way going to take the time to look at the tldogs reminder every single second. I need push notification.