If you're held up getting home, the last thing that you want to think about is your pet sitting alone in an empty, dark house. Why not brighten up the end of their day by setting the living room and bedroom lights to come on as the sun sets?¹

This automated lighting to ease anxiety means your pet will know that it's not long until you're back on the sofa for play time – and maybe a treat or two.

One thing that keeps pet lizards happy is when the lighting in their tank matches what they would experience in nature. When it's daylight, they need brightness. When it's nighttime, they like the lights low.

You can help keep your pet lizard happy by setting a smart plug (connected to their tank's basking lights) to turn on at sunrise and turn off at sunset.¹ This way, their waking hours will be happier – and their sleeping pattern will be improved.

During colder weather, we want our heating to be as efficient as possible – especially when no one's at home. But we also want our pets to be warm.

One way to accomplish both is with a Home/Away routine that sets your thermostat to Eco mode and turns on a smart plug connected to your pet's warming pad when the last person leaves home.¹ This way, you'll save energy, but there will always be somewhere warm for your pet to snooze.

Our cats and dogs often go exploring in the house at night, whether to get some water or investigate a strange noise.

Set up an automation that sets the lights to 20% when your hallway Nest Cam recognises your pet.¹ That way they can go on their nighttime adventure – without disturbing the rest of the household.

We all know how much fun it is for our pet birds to fly freely around the house. But we don't always want this to happen when we're not around.

To help with this, you can put a contact sensor on your pet bird's cage door.¹ If the door opens, you'll receive a custom alert, meaning that you can dash home and attend to the situation to help keep your bird safe.²

If all members of the household have gone out for the day and there's no one to keep your pet company, why not brighten up their day by turning on a pet-friendly TV show when they're in the living room?

You can set up an automation so that the Chromecast³ will turn on if the camera detects your pet while the Home is set to 'Away'.¹ This way, you can keep your pet entertained even when you're away.

Much as we love our pets, there are times when we simply can't remember if we fed them or not. This automation means that you'll never forget to feed your pet again.

Simply put a contact sensor on your pet's food container.¹ You can then set it up to send a notification if the container hasn't been opened by dinner time.² This way, you'll be reminded to feed your pet – no matter how busy you are.