Robot Vacuum Drops Treats For Your Dog While It Cleans

Aug 19, 2023

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Did you know that it's Pet Appreciation Week (6/4-6/10)? If you didn't get your dog a card, there's something else you might want to bring home for them. There are lots of ways to spoil your pet, but this could actually help them. And it might even make cleaning up pet hair easier for you.

We all know that dogs have, at best, a strained relationship with vacuum cleaners. In some cases, it's an all-out terrifying trial for a dog to hear the whir of the vacuum come on in the house. So the techs at iRobot came up with something that could finally lead to a truce in the eternal war between canines and vacuum cleaners.

According to Gizmodo, the iRobot engineers have created a device that attaches to your Roomba vacuum and dispenses dog treats as it travels the floor in search of dirt. This could change everything! For the first time in history, dogs and vacuums could actually be friends instead of enemies.

This revolutionary accessory is called the "Tasty Reward Emission Apparatus Thingy," or "T.R.E.A.T." It isn't for sale yet, but interested people that have a dog and a Roomba in the U.S. and Canada can apply to test a prototype. Think about it. Your family could be on the cutting edge of canine-vacuum relations. Find out how to apply here.

If your dog hates car rides and traveling stresses them out, just crank up the tunes. But make sure they’re the right tunes. According to Study Finds, certain music can calm dogs in cars.

Two in three pet owners say their dogs get anxious while traveling by car. With nearly 75-percent of people taking Rover on road trips, that could be a problem. Luckily, senior lecturer of music at the University of West London, Sam Sutton, has put together the perfect playlist for your pooch.

A University of Glasgow study which looked into how music can affect a dog's mood helped Sutton create the playlist. The researchers found that dogs calmed down best to soft rock and reggae. Artists on the list include the Bee Gees, Bob Marley, UB40, and Sade. Sutton even came up with a list of songs to avoid playing while your dog is in the car, which you can see HERE.