This is the puppy training podcast, episode 136, the interactive dog toy with Eric from Pupp Pod.

This podcast is designed to help you on your journey of becoming best friends through love and

learning as you train your own dog from home. And I'm here to help you every step of the way.

This is the puppy training podcast and I'm your host, Amy Jensen.

Hey everybody.

Welcome to the puppy training podcast.

Thanks for being here.

I appreciate you listening.

I'm really excited today to have Eric from Pupp Pod with me. Pup Pod is one of the coolest

interactive dog toys I've ever seen. On their website, they put that it's the most advanced

interactive dog game ever created. It gives your dog the physical activity and mental stimulation

they crave. So today we get to dive into Pupp Pod with Eric and learn all about this cool

product and more about his business. So welcome, Eric. Thanks so much for having me. Really appreciate it.

Will you tell us a little bit about you and your background? Sure. My background was in building

the early smartphone product category. And I kind of lived through

building these smartphones back when everybody had flip phones and analog phones and pagers. And we could

see that there was going to be a lot of capability that people were going to want to have in their

pockets as computing was moving along and it just wasn't in the phone.

And so we started building these smartphones back in the 90s and early 2000s.

And now you can see that product category is really prevalent.

I mean, almost everybody has a smartphone.

And we see the same thing happening with connected pet products.

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