Because pets don’t have BlackBerries

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Just like their people, many pets are on daily medications. And what are the chances that all those owners are dutifully remembering to medicate their pets as well as themselves?

Now, they have RemindMyPet.com. Actually, it should probably be called Remind My People.

The free service allows you to sign up online to have medication reminder e-mails sent to computers and text messages sent to cellphones. (If you want text messages, you must get the e-mails as well.) You can also get reminders for multiple pets and multiple medications.

We asked Dr. David Bruyette, the medical director at VCA West Los Angeles Animal Hospital, to take a look. He found the site handy and checked out the links as well. ‘The sites I visited related to health care (AAHA and AVMA) are quite good,’ he said.

The website was created by a drug company -- one with a big division of animal pharmaceuticals. But there are no ads for the company on the site. And in keeping with their show of modesty, we won’t mention the company here, either.

However, all this reminds us of one reader who e-mailed after a story last year in The Times on pets taking psychoactive drugs. He, too, had a pet on Prozac per a vet’s instructions. But he had no trouble remembering to administer the medicine. At the end of the day, he said, he broke out the Prozac and gave one tablet to himself and a fraction of one to his pet.

-- Carla Hall