Dog Bite Claims Impacting Insurance Rates
Amarillo, TX – Owning a dog in Texas could make your homeowner’s insurance go up.
Last year alone, insurers dished out more than five million dollars for dog bite claims in Texas and State Farm warns the increase in attacks could also mean an increase in insurance costs.
“It’s been consistent for many years, somewhere between five and six hundred bites. We’ve seen them go over 600, closer to 700,” Shannon Barlow with the City of Amarillo’s animal control center said.
Dog Owners Not Picking Up Waste Left Behind
Adam Rasmussen
Channel 2 News
Washoe county health officials are issuing a warning to dog owners — to try and eliminate some major health concerns.
Officials say too many people are not picking up after their dogs — and just leaving waste in parks and near waterways.
The Data-Driven Dog
Soon, your dog will be in the cloud.
That’s not a reminder of the fact that all dogs go to heaven. Rather, it’s simply a technological inevitability. As pet owners become more and more interested in helicopter parenting their dogs and cats, expect to see more announcements like this one from Fujitsu, which is working on a smart dog collar that’ll track your dog’s movements with a cloud-connected device.
“Starting in the second half of 2012,” says Fujitsu, “the company will begin offering a new cloud service to provide pet health management support using sensor data collected from the device.” Fujitsu has been demonstrating the device at a Tokyo forum yesterday and today.
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