Casey Nolan is a staff reviewer at GearGlobes covering pet gadgets — wearables, grooming devices, and safety tech for dogs and cats sold on emotional appeal ("keep your best friend safe," "groom them like a pro at home") as much as on hard specs. Their job is to separate what a product actually does for the animal from how it's marketed to the owner.

That means reading the manufacturer's own materials closely, cross-checking the stated specifications, weighing publicly available owner feedback, and — crucially — flagging any claim that can't be independently verified rather than repeating it as fact. When a sales page leans on an unsourced statistic, a countdown timer, or a "#1 rated" badge with no evidence behind it, that goes in the review as exactly that: an unverified marketing claim. Every rating reflects that editorial judgment, never a vendor's talking points.

Focus areas: Pet Wearables, Pet Grooming Devices, Pet Safety Gadgets, Pet Gadgets

How Casey evaluates a product

Every review on GearGlobes follows the same process — what we check, how we weigh it, and how we arrive at a score. Read the full method on our How We Test page, and see the standards we hold ourselves to in our Editorial Policy.