Organizers
PetMinder - Make no bones about it — managing the needs of a dog requires organization. If you’re not naturally gifted with the o-skill, then try PetMinder which schedules reminders for events related to your pet, such as vaccinations, grooming, training sessions, play dates and more, with e-mail reminders available to give you the timely nudge you might need.
Pet Master Free - The ultimate organizer to keep track all of your pets’ health and details. Add personal details, medication tracking, list of allergies, medical contacts (as well as groomer, sitter, etc), regular appointments, identification tracking and notes.
Pet Tracker -Keep track of your pet’s vital information. With Paw Card, you can create unlimited profiles for your dogs, cats, and other pets. Track your pet’s medications and weight (including graphs). Create notes and journal entries. Save veterinary contacts and vaccination history. Record identification tags and medical conditions. Easily email your pet’s paw card to the dog walker, pet sitter, or vet.
Health
Pet First Aid - This app is loaded with detailed videos and step-by-step illustrations so you’ll know exactly what to do when caring for your pet. Videos include: restraint, muzzling, CPR, bandaging, and more. There’s also a separate Cat First Aid app and Dog First Aid app.
Cat Symptoms (or Dog Symptoms) - The PetMD Topic Center gives you fast and convenient access to hundreds of Cat or Dog Health Topics on the go. You can either select a category like for example “Behavioral” or “Digestive” and browse the related topics in that category or use the search function to look for keywords.
Veterinary terms - The PetMD Veterinary Terms will help you to look up over 2000 animal health related issues and find an easy-to-understand plain English explanation. The dictionary works for any animal and will help you decode those complicated veterinary terms.
Locator
Dog Park Finder - The Dog Park Finder displays local dog parks and search results in both map and list forms. Park details include 5 star ratings, fenced and un-fenced markers, hours and days of operation and many other notes and features of the dog park.
Off Leash - As dog owners will know, the most fun your furry friend can have, aside from sniffing other dog’s butts, is to be let off the leash to run riot in a dog park, in which case the former may well happen. In order to help you locate such places – regardless of your zip code – pet food maker Eukanuba’s “Off Leash” app locates the five nearest to your location and provides driving directions to get there.
Pet Services Finder - Searching for the nearest Veterinarian, Groomer or Dog Park? Need a Dog Walker? PetMDʼs Finder helps you locate all services for your petsʼ needs. You can select any categories and the application will show you the closest service by zip code or relative to your current position. Choose from a list or see the locations displayed on a map with directions.
Petcentric Places - Gives animal lovers an easy to use tool to find pet friendly places and information anytime, anywhere. Want to find your closest dog park? Need to call a local veterinarian? Petcentric Places is here for you.
Looking for a Pet
Cat Breedopedia - PetMD’s Cat Breedopedia is a library of 35+ Cats available at your fingertips. From Abyssinian to York Chocolate, you will find a detailed description of every breed including pictures. Every Cat breeds contains a detailed description with physical characteristics, personality and temperament, care, health advice is well as the history and background.
Pet Dossier - A digital organizer for your dog, cat, bird, fish, critter and other animals’ information! This application allows you to have your pet’s essential information available at your fingertips. Keep track of your pet’s medical history, medications, and appointments and be able to email this information directly to your pet’s caregivers. Life can be hectic and it is nice to know that you have Pet Dossier to help you take care of the details. The cool thing is that 25% of the sale goes to support ASPCA!
Obedience and Training
Dog Obedience - Discover Proven Ways And Methods You Can Use To Get Them To Change! Dogs are still and will always be man's best friend, but they also have to act like it. Increasingly bad behavior will not help them stay in the good graces of their owner. Dog owners that are looking for a solution to the madness will need to adapt to behavioral training methods that will make your dog do a 360 degree turnaround.
Dog Tricks - Dog training is one of those activities best done little and often, so having an app right on your phone with a dog log of training activity means if you have a spare 10 minutes you can fire it up, see the photo and video walk-throughs and give your pooch the chance to practice, whether it be simple tricks such as sitting, or circus-level dog skills like the hoop jump.
It’s funny, but I couldn’t find a single app for training cats. Wonder why?? *grins*
Games & Entertainment
Dog Translator - Ever wonder what your dog might be trying to tell you? Dog Translator is a Dog-to-English translator that allows your dog to communicate to you in a way that's easy for you to understand.
Cat Translator - The Cat Translator is an entertaining tool to help you learn Catspeak so that you can better understand and communicate with cats. (It is also a great party trick when you would rather communicate to other humans through the voice of a cat!) This app has a comprehensive library of English phrases that are accurately translated to Catspeak (meows). This will have you laughing, repeating, and most importantly, understanding meows in no time!
Virutal Dog (or Virtual Cat) - Adopt your virtual pet home today! Virtual Cat (or Dog) will be your best friend as long as you keep him fed, play with him, and pay attention to him. Don’t start slacking though if you neglect your pet, he’ll be off to pet heaven with the others.
Fail Dog - If you own a dog, chances are you have a sense of humor. We’ve saved the last slot for the very funny iPhone app from the Fail Dogs blog, promising chortles galore as you browse the galleries of dogs that fail so very badly at being just that. Enjoy!
Games for Cats
Yes, you read that correctly. Apps designed for your cat to play!! (For this category I couldn’t find a single dog app. Hmm…)
Cat Toy - Dear human. It is required that you bring me this new cat toy. I have heard that it has a mouse that squeaks, a butterfly that flaps, a spider that splats and a laser pointer, and that all these react to my paw's touch. I am intrigued. Bring this toy to me and I will see whether it amuses me to play with it.
Games for Cats - Chase a laser! Chase a mouse! See how many points your cat can rack up. This crazy fast action packed game will keep your cat (and your guests) entertained for hours.
Apps for Cats - Is your pet fascinated my moving things? App For Cats will make you laugh as your best friend tries to figure out what is going on. Touch the little critters and they make a noise and speed up. Shake the device to get a different background and creature.
Social Networks
Do you love Facebook? If so, you might be interested in these:
Catbook - It's a community of over 1 million cat lovers and over 700,000 cats on Facebook. Keep a diary of your cat's life, locate other cats by breed or location, and then "friend" them. Make friends with dogs, horses, ferrets and even fish. Share in discussion groups. Lost your cat? Use "Meow Alerts" to let everyone in the vicinity know right away and how to contact you.
Dogbook - It's a community of over 2 million dog lovers on Facebook. Keep a diary of your dog's life, locate other dogs by breed or location, and then "friend" them. Make other cats, horses, fish and even ferrets their friend as well. Find parks nearby and share stories, photos and more. Lost your dog? Found a dog? Use "Arf Alerts" to let everyone in the vicinity know right away and how to contact you.
Let us know if you have some favorite pet apps! We love to hear from you.
