To teach her dog Stella to communicate

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Two years later, the company released an extension for the “smart” bowl — hackerpet . It allows owners to create tasks themselves, publish them in a shared library, and also keep records and statistics of their execution in Google services.

“After customers received CleverPet, we learned that what people love most about it is the moments when their dog or cat invents something new. We designed hackerpet so that owners can create an electronic game for their dog in just 30 minutes. It’s 1,000 times easier than making an app for a smartphone,” says Leo Trottier.

In 2020, the company stopped selling the "smart" bowl and began accepting pre-orders for CleverPet V2, a more interactive and faster version.

Currently, the CleverPet team employs about 25 people. The bahrain number data company has six registered patents for devices, systems and methods of interaction with animals. CleverPet's main competitors are Petnet , Nibbles , Feed and Go - companies that produce automatic feeders for pets, Petzila - which has invented a "smart" collar, camera and other devices.

A device that teaches a pet to "speak"
In 2019, the founders of CleverPet saw the device from Christina Hunger, a specialist working with children with speech defects.

, she adapted a language training method from the field of augmentative and alternative communication that she used in her work. This method allows communication without using language through the body or special devices: for example, word buttons.

Christina created a panel with “talking” buttons. Her dog learned to press “outdoors” when she wants to walk, the combination “I want” “food” to ask for food, and others. Christina claims that Stella has learned about 50 words in two years and can build phrases. In 2021, Christina Hunger released the book “How Stella Learned to Speak” with a detailed description of the history of her pet’s training.

Inspired by its design, the founders created FluentPet. It is a device with several panels with buttons on which words are written. On each panel, the words are grouped into categories, such as "object," "action," or "place."