An information provision device includes a processor configured to acquire a first variation amount of an amount of excrement and a second variation amount of a body weight in a pet, estimate a medical condition of the pet, based on the acquired first variation amount and the acquired second variation amount, and output provided information including the estimated medical condition.

The present application for invention dealt with an electrosterilization system and method for animal confinement beds, through the synergism of pulsed electric fields and condensed electromagnetic waves applied to corresponding agricultural equipment/implements, belonging to the field of methods to sterilize and sanitize animal confinement beds, through the interaction of sterilizing systems electric fields and pulsed magnetic fields and condensed electromagnetic waves. The equipment (1) being applied in agricultural and similar implements to electrosterilize animal confinement beds, through the harmonic synergism of electric fields, magnetic fields and electromagnetic waves condensed inside the tunnel (4) formed by upper electrodes (5, 5a and 5b) and lower electrodes (6, 6a and 6b), upper UVC lamps (7 and 7a) and lower UVC lamps (8 and 8a) and right polarizing electrode (10) and left polarizing electrode (11) of electromagnetic waves.

A rearing cage unit includes an animal residential area defined by a floor, a ceiling, and a wall; an excrement collection area adjacent to the animal residential area; and an excretion sheet in the excrement collection area to receive excrement of the animal. At least one of the floor and the wall is made of a material including resin, and has an excretion hole to allow the excrement in the animal residential area to be discharged to the excrement collection area, and the excretion hole has a size that prevents four feet of the animal from entering the excretion hole. The excretion sheet faces the excretion hole.

An at least semi-autonomous litter conditioning vehicle has a chassis. A drive system is coupled to the chassis and can move the vehicle along a floor of an animal enclosure. A collection system is coupled to a front portion of the chassis and includes a flailer that can reduce a particle size of the litter as the collection system collects litter from the floor. A conditioning system is coupled along a length of the chassis and includes a drum that can receive the collected litter and can be rotated to tumble the litter. A heating element of the conditioning system can transfer thermal energy to the litter as it is tumbled in the drum. A dispersement system is coupled to a back portion of the chassis. The dispersement system can receive conditioned litter from the conditioning system and can disperse the conditioned litter on the floor behind the vehicle.

A pet pee pad pen assembly includes a pen which comprises a plurality of walls being hingedly coupled together. In this way the pen forms a rectangular shape to shelter an animal. A respective one of the walls has a plurality of openings each extending therethrough to facilitate the animal to enter or exit the pen. A base is provided that can be positioned on a support surface and the pen is positioned on the base. A pad is positionable on the base and the pad is comprised of a fluid absorbent material to absorb the pet urine. An insert is positionable on the pad thereby inhibiting the pad from being displaced on the base.

A sprocket adapter configured to roll up a waste pad. The sprocket adapter includes a sprocket, a first tube, a second tube, and a set of fins. The first and second tubes extend from the sprocket configured to couple with the take-up rod. The set of fins extends from the first side of the sprocket to couple with a pet waste pad. An end cap is configured to removably couple to a sprocket adapter comprising an aperture having two slotted portions, and a set of flaps. The aperture fits around the first tube of a sprocket adapter. The two slotted portions fit around a set of fins of a sprocket adapter. The set of flaps couple to the sprocket adapter. A take-up rod is configured to couple with a sprocket adapter. A pet waste roll assembly comprises a sprocket adapter coupled to an end cap and a take-up rod.

Animal bedding, such as for a guinea pig, is disclosed. The animal bedding comprises a main section and a pocket. The main section includes a top layer, a middle layer, and a bottom layer. The top layer is hydrophobic, the middle layer is hydrophilic and at least a part of the bottom layer is hydrophobic. The top layer, the middle layer and the bottom layer are attached to one another, such as via stitching along a perimeter of the main section. Separately, the top layer and the middle layer are attached to one another, such as in an interior of the main section, to form quilting in the main section. The pocket, which is attached to the main section, allows the guinea pig to burrow therein.

A pet training pad, comprising an absorbent region; and a border region surrounding at least a portion of the absorbent region including a deformable reinforcement disposed within the border region; wherein the border region including the deformable reinforcement is convertible from a substantially flat configuration to an upright configuration such that the border region including the deformable reinforcement converts from the substantially flat configuration to the upright configuration; and wherein, when the border region including the deformable reinforcement converts from the substantially flat configuration to the upright configuration, the deformable reinforcement bends from the substantially flat configuration to the upright configuration and the border region forms an upright wall.

Disclosed herein in is an absorbent pet pad having erectable edges that define a central region where pet waste in confined. An exemplary embodiment comprises a non-rigid absorbent central region surrounded by edge region. The edge region can be erected to an erected angle, forming a substantially vertical border surrounding the pad. The border serves to retain pet waste, and to urge a pet, instinctively, to locate itself entirely on the pad when expelling waste. The erected angle forming the border may be established and maintained with edge attachment features. The erected edge region may be especially rigid owing to a folded A-shaped cross section.

Disclosed herein in is an absorbent pet pad and method of forming a liquid confining article. An exemplary embodiment comprises a non-rigid absorbent central region surrounded by a non-rigid or semi-rigid edge region. The edge region can be erected to an erected angle, forming a substantially vertical border surrounding the pad. The border serves to retain pet waste, and to urge a pet, instinctively, to locate itself entirely on the pad when expelling waste. The erected angle forming the border may be established and maintained with edge attachment features also referred to as angle maintaining features.