{"id":243281,"date":"2026-08-27T21:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/can-ai-help-detect-disease-before-your-pet-gets-sick-dr-ragen-mcgowan-nestle-purina"},"modified":"2026-08-27T21:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:05:32","slug":"can-ai-help-detect-disease-before-your-pet-gets-sick-dr-ragen-mcgowan-nestle-purina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/can-ai-help-detect-disease-before-your-pet-gets-sick-dr-ragen-mcgowan-nestle-purina","title":{"rendered":"Can AI Help Detect Disease Before Your Pet Gets Sick? | Dr. Ragen McGowan \u2014 Nestl\u00e9 Purina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iOLXqhzXQiY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Can AI tell how your pet feels? Dr. Ragen McGowan, Ph.D. \u2014 Director of Global Digital &amp; AI Product Development, Nestl\u00e9 Purina North America.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What if your dog or cat could tell you how they\u2019re feeling?<\/p>\n<p>Today, artificial intelligence may be giving us a new way to listen.<\/p>\n<p>By continuously monitoring things like activity, eating, sleep, elimination and other behaviors, AI can begin to establish what\u2019s normal for an individual animal \u2014 and potentially detect subtle changes that humans would never notice.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ragen McGowan, Ph.D. is Director of Global Digital &amp; AI Product Development at Nestl\u00e9 Purina (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purina.com\/pet-experts\/rm\">https:\/\/www.purina.com\/pet-experts\/rm<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/can-ai-help-detect-disease-before-your-pet-gets-sick-dr-ragen-mcgowan-nestle-purina\">Continue reading \u201cCan AI Help Detect Disease Before Your Pet Gets Sick? | Dr. Ragen McGowan \u2014 Nestl\u00e9 Purina\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can AI tell how your pet feels? Dr. Ragen McGowan, Ph.D. \u2014 Director of Global Digital &amp; AI Product Development, Nestl\u00e9 Purina North America. What if your dog or cat could tell you how they\u2019re feeling? Today, artificial intelligence may be giving us a new way to listen. By continuously monitoring things like activity, eating, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}