How Technology Is Changing Pet Health Care
The iPhone by Apple prides itself on the fact that it has a number of ‘apps’ with which you can find almost any information. Now, luckily for our furry friends, it seems there’s even an app for pet health care. This is great news for pet owners who use their mobile phones more than computers to obtain information as the many pet health care apps offer a range of information, close to hand.
The applications are all created very much with pet owners wanting quick, concise pet health care information in mind. The Pet First Aid app offers very handy snippets of easy to understand information and advice on pet health care. It also describes in a good level of detail how to carry out physical checks on your dog, giving you a better idea of what might be the problem. It also has a very informative ‘what’s normal’ section letting you check out if you should be worried or not.
An app which works in a similar fashion to the first aid application is the mobile symptom checker. A little bit like a pet version of the NHS direct website, the app lets users search through symptoms by category.
The Vet Record app helps owners to keep abreast of their animal’s pet health care records. It allows medical information to be input so that medical treatment can be tracked. Obviously, the vet should keep a record of this information anyway, but the app could be especially useful if the animal has to receive emergency treatment from a vet other than their own, such as if they feel ill on holiday.
No pet health care enthusiast could fail to love the Pet Services finder app. From dog walkers, to vets, to catteries, this service which is a cross between a search engine and a phone book can find them.
The best of the rest include an Off the Leash application which can point dog owners in the direction of interesting walks where their pets are welcome and the Vet Dictionary which helps put animal health care terms into plain English.
In all, it is certainly true that today’s app technology is going a long way to making pet health care information more accessible to everyone.
