PETKIT AI vomiting detection, first previewed as part of PETKIT AI's expanding health monitoring capabilities, is expected to launch in July 2026. For the first time, every vomiting event your cat experiences will be automatically detected, recorded, and retrievable, so you always know who vomited, when it happened, and how many times, with the full picture waiting in the PETKIT app whenever you need it.
This is arriving via OTA update to three compatible devices this July.
Your Cat Has Been Vomiting. You Just Did Not Know.
There is a scenario familiar to almost every cat owner: you come home to find evidence that something happened while you were out, with no way of knowing when it occurred or which cat was responsible. Cats frequently consume their vomit before it is discovered, and in a multi-cat household, even a witnessed event rarely comes with a definitive answer about who was behind it. The information simply does not reach you.
What makes this gap consequential is what vomiting actually signals. Occasional vomiting can be benign, but frequent or unexplained episodes are among the earliest clinical indicators of conditions including gastritis, parasitic infection, kidney or liver dysfunction, and ingestion of foreign objects or toxins. The challenge is not that owners fail to take it seriously once they notice it. The challenge is that the pattern is invisible until it is no longer early, and every unrecorded episode is a data point that never makes it into the conversation with a veterinarian. That is the gap vomiting detection is built to close.
The AI That Catches What You Miss
Vomiting detection is built on the skeletal joint analysis framework at the core of PETKIT AI's behavioral interpretation capabilities. The system tracks a cat's key body landmarks at 2-millisecond intervals, reconstructing posture and movement sequences with enough precision to identify the specific physical progression that precedes and accompanies vomiting, and to distinguish it reliably from other behaviors that produce similar motion signals on camera. This approach goes beyond simple motion detection, enabling the system to recognize the specific behavioral pattern associated with vomiting — one of the most diagnostically significant and consistently missed feline health signals.
When a vomiting event is detected, the experience unfolds as a complete, traceable record. A push notification reaches your phone immediately, telling you which cat was involved. Opening the PETKIT app, the event appears as a flagged alert within that cat's activity timeline, timestamped and placed in sequence alongside their feeding and drinking history for that day. Tapping the alert takes you directly to the video clip, so you can see exactly what happened, in context, without searching through footage manually. The record accumulates across days and weeks, building a precise account of frequency and timing that you can monitor at home or bring directly to a veterinary consultation, drawn from continuous observation rather than reconstructed from memory.
Is Your Device Ready? Here Is How to Turn It On.
Vomiting detection will be available on the following PETKIT devices:
- YumShare Solo 2 Automatic Feeder with Camera
- YumShare Dual-hopper 2 Automatic Feeder with Camera
- EverSweet Ultra with Camera Pet Water Fountain
This feature currently supports cats only. Dog detection is not available at this time.
To enable the feature once the update goes live, update the PETKIT app to version 13.9.0 or above, then follow two steps:
- Open the PETKIT app, navigate to your device page, tap the AI Lab button in the lower right corner, and select Vomiting Detection.
- Confirm your device meets the feature requirements and switch the feature on. Enabling app notifications is recommended so that alerts reach you the moment they are triggered.
Part of a Longer Commitment
Vomiting detection is joining PETKIT AI as a real-time alert capability, the category of signals urgent enough to warrant immediate notification. That category already includes yowling during litter box use, urine color changes detected via PETKIT Urine Monitor Cat Litter, no litter box activity in 24 hours, and no water intake detected in 48 hours. Alongside these alerts, PETKIT AI runs continuous tracking across litter box visit frequency and stool consistency, individual eating records, changes in eating habits over time, and drinking frequency, all stored as part of each pet's ongoing health record in the app and building toward a behavioral baseline that makes departures meaningful.
Each of these capabilities shares the same foundation: more than 100 million AI training iterations, over 500,000 multi-modal behavioral records from more than 200,000 co-creation users, and more than five years of entirely self-directed AI research and development. PETKIT's direction has been consistent throughout: to build a system that moves pet care from reactive to preventive, from isolated observation to continuous understanding, and from guesswork to data that owners and veterinarians can actually act on. Vomiting detection is part of that progression, designed to become more accurate as the dataset behind it grows.
The OTA update is expected in July 2026. The confirmed release date will appear in the PETKIT app. Stay tuned.
