{"id":181172,"date":"2016-09-14T13:45:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T13:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petcloud.com.au\/d\/the-secret-lives-of-aussie-pets\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T18:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:46:14","slug":"the-secret-lives-of-aussie-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petcloud.com.au\/d\/blog\/the-secret-lives-of-aussie-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Lives of Aussie Pets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caught on camera: This Chihuahua owned by Victoria, who works in an Emergency\u00a0Response Call Centre\u00a0says it gives her \u201cpeace of mind knowing that her chi-babies are safe and sound\u201d.<\/b><\/h4>\n

The footage is set on night vision, and sends random, live images. Two Chihuahuas play fight in the lounge room on a beanbag.\u00a0 A collie in Pottsville NSW snoozes. \u00a0While a rabbit in Blacktown, waits for his nightly bowl of carrots and lettuce.\u00a0 As the animals go about their business, the cameras are rolling.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Secret Life of Pets,\u201d is this summer\u2019s hit movie with Pet lovers keen to see it and perhaps it will reveal what our pets really get up to while we\u2019re away.\u00a0It\u2019s an animated\u00a0kids movie, set in New York City. In the film, the pets throw noisy parties, massage themselves with eggbeaters, listen to heavy metal, hijack trucks and tumble down gang-infested sewers.\u00a0But in real life with the amount of high tech remote web cams on the market, there is little need to wonder. Go into any hi-fi store and you\u2019ll see action cams, nanny cams, pet cams, home-security cams \u2014 beaming a steady stream of activity each day across the mobile and web screens of gadget-happy Australians.<\/p>\n

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Pet Owner Jeanette Cheung posts on her facebook wall \u201cFinally found the time to set up my ICPooch <\/b><\/p>\n

which allows me to video call Oscar and drop treats remotely using my mobile phone. <\/b><\/p>\n

The only trouble is I’m not so sure he’s that intelligent to recognize me on the phone when I’m on screen.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

So what exactly do these animals do, cooped up in empty apartments?<\/span>\u00a0“They actually sleep most of the time”, says PetCloud<\/a> pet pitting company CEO, Deb Morrison. Even when awake, they spend a lot of time just waiting for their owners to get home, especially if they\u2019re dogs.\u00a0As crazy pet owners, (mostly those of us who have a desk job in digital) we will set up remote cameras on our pets for a number of reasons;\u00a0Because they want to make sure if a parcel gets delivered. Because they want to break the monotony and entertain their colleagues at work, and partly it\u2019s because they feel a bit guilty about leaving them at home all day.<\/p>\n

The Australian Bureau of Statistics says 5 million of Australia’s 7.7 million full-time workers put in more than 40 hours per week.\u00a0Of them, 1.4 million put in more than 50 hours per week. Around 270,000 put in more than 70 hours per week.\u00a0\u201cHa! It\u2019s not quite what goes on in \u2018The Secret Life of Pets\u2019 movie. But we have been inundated with Pet Owners emailing us photos of what their pet gets up to, and it seems to be a mix of sleeping, or partial destruction of a lounge chair or pot plant.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Find local Vets, store your Pet’s Health, etc, download PetCloud today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Download IOS: https:\/\/apple.co\/2PifzXs<\/a> Android: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3aFeK2m<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caught on camera: This Chihuahua owned by Victoria, who works in an Emergency\u00a0Response Call Centre\u00a0says it gives her \u201cpeace of mind knowing that her chi-babies are safe and sound\u201d. The footage is set on night vision, and sends random, live images. 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