Furryfitness
Welcome to Furryfitness.
Dare I mention the dreaded Covid-19 lockdown…well that was my inspiration. I found within the lockdown period, especially with the vets only dealing with emergencies that I really relied on text message reminders from them re worming and flea treatments. This service was temporarily on hold and I duly forgot - my routine went out the window and the dogs were affected.
So I set about specifying and then having built an app with all my concerns and weak areas at the core. Furryfitness was born. Furryfitness allows you to monitor your pets weight, it allows you to set up reminders for insurance, flea, worming and any other treatments. It has a food diary to monitor food intake and best of all it has walks, walk history and the data stored in a fitness dashboard.
In developing an activity and feed monitoring app for pets we are attempting to highlight to owners just how much or how little exercise their pet does according to breed recommendations. This is designed to encourage the owner to keep an eye on weight and body condition too. This will assist the pet owner in making responsible decisions as to the health and welfare of their pet.
The PDSA cited recently that vets estimate that nearly half of dogs in the UK are classified as overweight or obese. The Furryfitness app whilst it is not set up to make diet and food quantity recommendations will give the pet owner the ability to monitor fluctuations in weight and will assist the owner in making decisions regarding food and diet using the information to hand.
The app has a dedicated weight management dashboard which allows the owner to view in graphical form and in numerical form a history of weight fluctuations against Calories burned. The information is particularly important if the owner’s dog is on a weight management program being monitored by the vets. In a single screen the owner can demonstrate the dogs progress and seek advice as to how to address the weight loss/gain.
Encouraging an owner to keep a close track on their dog’s weight is one of the keyways in which they can keep them as healthy and happy as possible.
FITNESS
Track activity, steps taken, calories burned (taking into account factors including your dog’s breed, age, weight and whether they’ve been neutered) and distance travelled. It does this by simply counting the steps you have taken registered on your device. Multiple dogs? Easily swipe through to select and compare their activity.
WEIGHT MANAGEMENT
Furryfitness will calculate your dogs ideal weight using the breed and age of your dog as entered in the initial setup, if the weight of your dog is different which in most occasions it will not be an exact match then you can amend this weight. Every time you weigh your dog, record their weight into the Furryfitness app and build up a valuable history of how their weight changes over time.
REMINDERS
Have you ever missed an appointment or a particular date? Have you ever forgotten to compare renewal prices for annual pet insurance? Well if the answer if yes then let the Furryfitness app jog your memory on just the right date, at just the right time - life is busy enough in your human calendar without having to remember your pet's dates.
WALK HISTORY
Every walk tracked is stored in your phone's history. Notice an activity pattern? Raining, too hot? The app has an integrated weather app so will record against the walk the associated weather. Raining, didn't walk so far - thought so!!
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