Tracking Your Dog’s Health with Fi
On this episode of Your Natural Dog with Angela Ardolino, we’re joined by Jonathan Bensamoun, who founded Fi, a record setting, power-efficient smart collar with the mission to strengthen the relationship between dogs & their humans through technology. Jonathan joins Angela to discuss the importance of monitoring your dog’s health, and how Fi is helping owners do that more efficiently, highlighting the invaluable insights into your dog’s health that can be gleaned from tracking their movements, activity levels, sleep patterns, and more. They explore how Fi is revolutionizing pet care by providing pet parents with access to unbiased data that empowers them to make informed decisions about their dog’s well-being.
Episode Recap:
- Why Jonathan created Fi
- Tracking your dog when you’re apart
- Comparing your dog’s data
- How Fi has helped save dog’s lives
- Monitoring your dog after surgery
- What dog behaviors can be tracked by Fi?
- How Fi can advance our knowledge on dogs
- The power of unbiased data in dog health
- Tracking your dog’s sleep
- Tracking your dog’s allergies & scratching
- Getting started with Fi
- Fi’s partnership with Strava running app
- Getting to know Jonathan
Episode Resources:
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- Angela Ardolino
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About Angela Ardolino
Angela Ardolino is a holistic pet expert and educator who has been caring for animals for over 20 years. Angela owns and operates Fire Flake Farm, an animal rescue. She’s also the founder and formulator of CBD Dog Health, which offers high quality, all-natural cannabis health and wellness products for pets; and MycoDog, which creates and produces high-quality medicinal mushroom and adaptogen tinctures specifically for pets.
Accordingly, she has used CBD Dog Health’s CBD for Dogs, and now MycoDog mushrooms for dogs, on all her pets at her rescue farm every day since 2016. Angela’s pack includes rescues Jolene, Maza and Rhemi. In addition, she has 4-10 more any time she is fostering or boarding. She is a member of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians and the Veterinary Cannabis Association. In fact, Angela has educated hundreds of medical doctors and veterinarians on the therapeutic uses of medical cannabis on animals.
Jonathan Bensamoun founded Fi with Loren Kirkby in 2017 with the mission to strengthen the relationship between dogs & their humans through technology. He is a passionate entrepreneur, with a background as a Product Leader at disruptors Handy and Square.
Prior to those roles, Jonathan founded location based app Pins in 2013, which was acquired by Square the following year. Jonathan’s inspiration is Thor, a 7-year-old German Shepherd who serves as the Chief Dog Officer of Fi.