[kreyenborgi]

As a dog owner for 15 years I can honestly say I have never felt the need to track any of this. I'm curious, why would you need to? Do people forget to take their dogs for walks? Most dogs come with builtin alarms consisting of wagging, slobbering and pouty faces. Mine even runs back and forth between me and the bowl when he's hungry, hard to not notice the hint.

[RankingMember]

I think this kind of app's niche may be in elderly pets, where occurrences of vomiting/stool characteristics may be valuable when talking to vets and tracking patterns. Otherwise I agree, for the average healthy pet it seems to me like just another thing™ to have to get out your phone for when your hands should be busy giving pets/throwing toys.

[xyborg]

I focused on puppies, but elderly dogs is a nice use case though. Thanks for the input!

[Mumps]

The missus and I would benefit from this -- I even got part way into my own Flutter app of similar functionality: she does shift work and I have to travel a lot. We're often not at home at the same time (or one of us is sleeping).

Things we'd get value from:

1. Has the dog been fed? (am, pm)

2. had his meds?

3. Should I expect to walk him in an hour? I may be lazy, but it's cruel to not get at least one walk a day.

3b. Long term, are we splitting the effort well? does one person walk him WAY more?

4. Did he not poop on two consecutive walks? do I need to watch out for illness?

"Oh, just communicate more, have you ever thought of that? Be better spouses" -- this is* us communicating, to take the best care of our dog :)

*he averages 2x 1.5hours per day + 2x 30min training sessions.

[xyborg]

This is a nice use case though, helping with communication.

[xyborg]

I probably wont continue doing it for long as well. I thought about this out of the necessity of tracking my puppy potty training. And it's not that we forget about going for a walk, is more like getting an idea of at what time of the day, on which frequency they need to pee or poop, and arrange the walks around those times so they can learn to do it outside quickly. So, this might be useful for puppy and also elder dog owners.