bells&whistles.

i got some new gadgets for the pup! the first, is the Tell Bell. its just a little bell, with a wider button than normal. sanford still occasionally pees in the house when given free reign and i forget to take him out after about an hour and a half, so i'm going to use it to help with the whole house training thing, just so that he has a way of letting me know he has to go.

the second one i am really excited for. its a QR code dog collar! it has a QR-code and a website (that the QR code also points to) etched on it and is a collaboration between dogIDS and PetHub, where i can put his information in case he goes missing and someone finds him! obviously you can't assume everyone will be that tech-y, so the name and number are also etched on there for that. my one qualm so far is that PetHub is pretty slow, and not the most intuitive website/system to use, but it serves its purpose and is mostly a set up and leave alone type thing.

update: so i received an email from pethub last night - crazy! they saw this post i guess and wanted to let me know that they are working on the website-slowness. good to know!

Thanks for the great write-up. Sanford is adorable. We agree -- the site is uber slow. We just moved over to AWS (Amazon Web Services) and we're getting it configured to work with a load balancer and caching front-end servers. Currently when you click around on the http://pethub.com/get-tagged pages and even our articles, they're very peppy and we're working to get the rest of the site performant as well. But, you're right, we cannot argue that recently it's been super slow but I wanted to assure you it's one of our top priorities right now. Thanks again! Glad you're liking the collar and concept.