Smart pet bowls

A system of monitoring pet feeding behavior, comprising:

• a smart pet bowl, including:
• a pet bowl to i) carry pet food or water or ii) carry a bowl insert to carry pet food or water;
• a load sensor associated with the pet bowl that is sensitive to load changes of pet food or water carried within the pet bowl, wherein the load sensor has a sensitivity of +/−50 grams or less and load data collectable therefrom is at a sample rate from 10 to 150 samples per second in sequential time increments from about 0.01 second to 5 seconds;
• and
• a data communicator to communicate the load data over a computer network;
• a processor;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, includes:
• receiving the load data from the data communicator;
• and
• identifying a feeding behavior occurring within one or more of the time increments based on the pet interacting with the pet bowl or the contents of the pet bowl.