Pet AI Research App - How Does It Work?

The Pet AI Research app is a mobile tool designed in partnership with Mars Petcare and the Waltham Petcare Science Institute, and powered by the Pet Insight Project. It's built to innovate new ways to identify and screen for potential health concerns in dogs, support scientific research, and contribute to new digital tools across Mars Petcare. 

It's the same way we developed Poop Scan in your Whistle app! 



When you launch the app, you'll first be asked to create a profile for your pet - we can only use photos of dogs for now - see the FAQ for more information on this!

Then, select one of the studies: Skin Health or Oral Health* 

*more studies will be added soon!
Each study will ask you to answer some questions about your pet's current skin or dental condition and any issues you're aware of. 💡 Photos are helpful for our team even if you don't think your dog has any related issues. 

Then you'll take and upload photos of those areas

The information and photos you submit will only be used within our development team, for data analysis and to help improve our machine learning model. It will not be used for any other purposes and will not be stored. We never ask you for any personal or identifying information

Be sure you give the app access to your phone's camera when prompted! 
Take the photo(s) requested
You'll have a chance to review the photos before submitting. All three of the Oral Health photos will be approved at the same time. You can also select photos from your camera roll! When you agree that the photos are good, you can submit them

You should see a Success screen when the photos are accepted 

❗️This is also a testing version of the app, so if you run into trouble along the way or you don't see the Success screen, that's ok! Our data teams will receive reports that they'll review to address the problems that caused the error and make fixes.





If you have questions or feedback, you can reach out to Whistle Customer Support at 
support@whistle.com any time
or
855-999-0471  Monday - Friday 10am -6pm

Thank you for helping us Make A Better World For Pets!