Pet affection indicator

A pet affection indicator device comprising a sensing assembly including sensor circuitry and at least one sensor element worn by a pet, the sensing assembly producing signals representative of sensing of a human's touching of the pet in an effective range of the sensor element;

• the sensor element being in electrical communication with a processor that receives the signals from the sensing element and calculates data associated with at least one of an amount, frequency, duration of the sensed touching and elapsed time since the last of the sensed touching;
• memory in electrical communication with the processor for storing the data associated with at least one of the amount, frequency, duration of the sensed touching and elapsed time since the last of the sensed touching;
• and an indicator in communication with the processor that communicates to a human an indication associated with at least one of the amount, frequency, duration of the sensed touching and elapsed time since the last of the sensed touching.