What changed
Recent corrections to articles on Smart Pet Home after publication. The most recently corrected articles come first; full correction notes stay under each article.
11 recent corrections across 4 articles.
Cats drank 27.5 mL per kg a day from a still bowl and 26.1 from a fountain: a fountain is a preference, not a hydration fix
Source 1 pointed at the site's home page, so the registry held no sources. The study's figures were checked against the paper (27.483, 26.327, 26.137 mL/kg/day; spread 5.847; P = 0.942; three cats with a preference; 6% moisture kibble) and the per-cat amounts are now the site's data page, computed from the exact means two ways, and linked. The study enrolled 16 cats, of which 14 completed. The closing note said 'checked by hand'; nothing records a person did, so that claim is removed. The title carries the figures.
Headline was
Do cats drink more from a fountain? Measured, it made no difference1 earlier correction in this list
The study's cats ate dry food only, which the figures depend on; the 21% spread is between cats, not day to day; the earlier 13-cat study is not described as in homes.
Dog calories: the exact formula against the 30 x weight + 70 shortcut
The combined formula is now shown as the combination of MSD's two published steps, not as a single MSD line.
1 earlier correction in this list
The title no longer promises accuracy: the page itself says every figure is a starting point to adjust by body condition. Pounds-to-kilograms conversion added for the worked example. Repeated warning, tip, reminder and checklist boxes and a generic feeder question were removed; the figures and the MSD multipliers were rechecked and stand.
Headline was
Calculate your dog's daily calorie needs accurately
Phoenix and Miami: 97.8% and 97.0% of summer daylight hours at or above 25°C; London 9.0%, Seattle 12.9%
The title promised eight cities and the tables showed four; the data page the article cites has all eight, and its rendered table and its JSON agree for every city (checked both ways). The eight-city table replaces the four-city one, the four middle cities are named with their shares, the lead and the takeaway now carry the finding (which the 2026-11-05 correction had buried under repeated caveats, keeping the caveat once), and the title is measured.
Headline was
When are summer daylight hours coolest? Eight cities compared2 earlier corrections in this list
The Sources list skipped numbers (sources were removed earlier and the rest kept their numbers); renumbered 1 to 5, and every citation follows. Spacing and numbering only.
Separated historical air-temperature patterns from dog-walking safety, removed fixed-temperature and breed-wide safety assurances, clarified the limits of the weather count, and added primary veterinary guidance.
Headline was
First hour after sunrise is safest for dog walks in summer
Daily food and water needs for pets home alone
Our own measurements were labelled 'the site owner's own test data' in the Sources list; they are the site's own measurement or calculation, and the label now says so. Label only; no figure changed.
3 earlier corrections in this list
Two figures the gate could not find in their sources: the bowl sizes are now stated as the table's own top figures, and the dog's water range is cited to the calculation table, not to Merck.
Removed the claim of 'our own test' (the figures are Merck's formulas, nothing was measured); water range now says it is Merck's general mammal figure; wet-food moisture and the thermoneutral caveat now come from Merck's page; linear-formula note corrected (low under about 18 kg, high above); cut the worked example that repeated the feeder section and the FAQ whose answers cited Merck for advice it does not give.
The water advice contradicted the article's own table (a cat needs up to about 400 mL a day, a 40 kg dog up to 2.6 L); the straight-line calorie formula's range and error are now as Merck gives them; a broken table header and a cut-off sentence are fixed; nothing was measured, so 'measured' is gone.