Looking for gift ideas for your precious fur baby or loved ones obsessed with pets? We have tested many pet technologies, and these are our top choices.

As any pet parent can attest, welcoming animals into your home usually means getting a lot of things. 

After adopting Bradley, my pitbull, I started to use dog beds, food containers, and countless toys. He now has his own shoes, he can walk in the hot weather, he has a life jacket to travel by the river, and since I am a technical commentator, he has a constant stream of gadgets to test. 

You may be surprised by the number and types of pet equipment we review-from cameras that can help you remotely monitor and interact with furry friends, to DNA test kits that can tell you whether your cute creature is a Pomeranian or a poodle , Have everything. At PCMag, we love our pets, and we know that you love your pets too. Therefore, in this article, we have collected the best technological gifts for pets and their owners. 

For all the love they give, our pet deserves the best. If you are looking for a special gift for your cat, dog or loved one whose world revolves around their fur baby, please read on. (For more great gift ideas, be sure to check out PCMag’s Holiday Gift Guide.)

For pets at home alone

The $249 Furbo is essentially an indoor home security camera and dog sitter, providing clear 1080p video even in the dark, plus barking alerts and two-way audio, so you can use your phone at work or on the go Monitor your puppy. Perhaps most importantly, it allows you to throw snacks at your dog when you are out. With its attractive and sturdy design, clearer video quality than the competition, reliable snack delivery and useful alarms, it is the editing choice for our pet camera. 

Remote pet monitoring for budget

If Furbo is out of your price range, check out Petcube Bites 2 Lite for $149. It provides a similar experience for less money, allowing you to see, hear, and talk to your pets, as well as throw snacks at them via your phone. It is fun and easy to use, so you can rest assured that your pet is safe when you are not at home. It is no better than Furbo. Furbo is still our editor's choice in this category due to its excellent reliability, but Bites 2 Lite is an excellent and more affordable alternative.

The Fi Smart Dog Collar ($129, plus an optional GPS/LTE subscription of $99 per year) is worth every penny because it provides peace of mind. It will track your dog's location and send you an alert when they run away. It can also pay close attention to their activity and sleep, which may help you identify health problems. Providing fast escape alerts, long battery life, high-quality hardware and interesting social functions, it is the editor's choice for our smart dog collar.

If your pet is a bit too bulky, Whistle FIT ($79.95 plus an annual subscription fee of $35.40) can help. It attaches to the collar of your cat or dog to track their activity, calories burned, distance and rest time. It connects to an app to show your pet's progress in achieving personalized activity goals, let you set reminders about medication and veterinarian visits, and provide food portion recommendations. It also tracks your pet's licking and scratching to notify you of potential medical issues. 

The $159 Wisdom Panel Premium (previously known as Healthy Dog Disease Test) provides everything you might want in a dog DNA test kit. It can associate your dog's breed composition with its great-grandparents and check whether your hunting dog has 211 other genetic health conditions. The test is comprehensive, the packaging is professional, and the results are clear at a glance. More importantly, the results are consistent, which makes us believe that we can trust the test results. The combination of accuracy, presentation, and functionality of the Wisdom Panel makes it an editing choice for our dog DNA kit.

There are many robot vacuum cleaners on the market, but not all vacuum cleaners are powerful enough to effectively catch pet hair and dander. Shark IQ Robot Self-Empty XL R101AE ($599), our editor recommends the robot vacuum cleaner, which is a compelling choice for pet owners due to its powerful suction power and self-cleaning brush roller. It provides enough power to reliably suck fur from the carpet, and its brush roller continuously filters pet and human hair into the trash can. In addition, it runs fast and efficient, rarely gets stuck, and there is a large trash can in the base station that only needs to be emptied once a month. 

Let's face it: pets are a mess. If your pet has an accident, leaves marks in the mud, or drools on your hard floor, a good robot mop can help you clean them. Although most of its competitors mop the floor with water, the $399.99 Bissell SpinWave wet and dry supports a range of cleaning solutions and has two rotating pads, so it can disinfect and scrub your floor Until they glow.  

The newest member of the iRobot robot vacuum cleaner series can't stop your dog from defecate in the house, but if your fur baby does have an accident, Roomba j7 won't make it all over the floor. The US$699.99 robot vacuum cleaner we are currently testing uses a built-in camera and machine learning technology to detect and automatically avoid pet waste. iRobot is very confident in its new technology. It provides j7 with a POOP (Official Pledge for Pet Owners) guarantee: If the robot fails to avoid solid pet waste within one year after your purchase, the company will provide you with a new one for free.

If you are allergic to animals, or often struggle with pet odors, a good air purifier can help you live together happily. Our first choice, the $549.99 Dyson Purifier Cool TP07, is equipped with a 360-degree filter with a HEPA layer that can trap pet dander and other air pollutants to reduce your allergies, as well as an activated carbon layer that removes gases and odors. It doubles as a powerful oscillating fan, has a small footprint, and has a Wi-Fi connection for telephone and voice control.

MyQ Pet Portal is a smart dog door that can be used in conjunction with a custom collar sensor. It opens automatically or on request when your dog wants to go out or come back, like an elevator. The price of US$3,000 may shock you, but it is equipped with dual 1080p cameras, two-way talk and night vision, so you can monitor the puppy's entry and exit in real time or on demand through your phone. It is also much better than ordinary dog ​​doors, with discrete design, almost completely inconspicuous from the outside.

Cat owners, this is the robot you are looking for. The $549 Litter-Robot 3 Connect is a self-cleaning trash can, which looks like a gateway to another world-a clean world. It will wait a pre-designated time after the cat leaves in order to completely agglomerate before filtering and separating trash and waste for cleaning by rotating the entire globe. The latter is dumped in the integrated carbon filter drawer. Even night lights are prepared for cats who are afraid of the dark. If you lose power, the 48-hour backup battery ensures that filtration continues unabated. It even supports applications for remote monitoring, because nothing is more important than an alarm telling you it’s time to dump the cat.

This is the best deal to get a plastic bag suitable for picking up after a puppy has a bowel movement. For less than $20, you can get 900 bags in 60 rolls and a dispenser that can be clipped to a belt. They are even printed with arrows pointing to the opening, so you don’t feel stupid to stand there while trying to open the sealed end. Each bag is 13 x 9 inches, 15 bags per roll.

For most retractable leashes, there is a great distance, and how far your dog can go before you hit the disconnect button with your thumb. With Dial-a-Distance Leash, which sells for $34.99, you can pre-set the length so far so that some dogs can reach a length of 15 feet, but others have less length. This is a belt belt, not a rope, so it is very strong.

If you have a new car, you might think: I will never let the falling monster that I like so much into this car! Solution: Purchase a 4Knines dog seat cover worth $59.99, which covers the entire back seat and doubles as a safety hammock. When your dog must share space with humans, it uses a padded design to improve comfort and has a seat belt opening. It has tan, gray and black.

There are many pet drinkers, but few are as clever as the $38.99 Pioneer Pet Raindrop Style Fountain. It has a charcoal filter to keep the water pure and delicious (yes, even for dogs drinking from the toilet). It can be washed in the dishwasher and can hold up to 60 ounces of liquid.

For more gift ideas, check out the best tech gifts under $20, $50, and $100, as well as our complete holiday gift guide.

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Angela is a smart home and wearable device analyst for PCMag. She previously worked as a PCMag reporter for eight years. Prior to that, she was a reporter for SC Magazine, covering hackers and computer security. She has also written for several newspapers, including the North Valley Suburbs in New Jersey, the Dominion Post in West Virginia, and the Union Town Herald in Pennsylvania. She graduated from the Perely Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University.

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