Thursday, September 10, 2026 · New Jersey
Family & Attractions
RMN dispatches tagged Family & Attractions.
Your Cat Has an AI Personality Profile Now
Pet wearables are crossing a line from measuring animals to narrating them. That could help us notice what we miss — or teach us to trust the dashboard over the animal standing in front of us.
Reported Feature Somerset County, New Jersey
Your Dog Has a Personality Test Written in Its DNA Now
Embark’s new Behavior Insights feature promises to connect 15 behavioral tendencies to a dog’s genetics and then build a year of training around them. The useful part may be understanding predisposition. The harder part is remembering that predisposition is not destiny.
Reported Feature Somerset County, New Jersey
The Family Costume Has Four Legs Now
PetSmart's 2026 Halloween collection looks like a seasonal retail story. It is also evidence that pets are no longer adjacent to family rituals. Increasingly, they are cast in them.
Reported Feature Somerset County, New Jersey
Parenting Now Comes With a Research Department
More information was supposed to make caregiving choices easier. NIQ's new U.S. research suggests that, for many mothers, abundance has created another job: deciding which advice deserves to be trusted.
Reported Feature Somerset County, New Jersey
Five Runs, One Championship Belt and a Ballpark Full of Dogs
Somerset beat Hartford 7-2 on a night when WWE star Damian Priest, Bark in the Park and a championship-belt shirt giveaway turned TD Bank Ballpark into a perfect collision of baseball people, dog people and wrestling people.
Reported Event TD Bank Ballpark · Bridgewater, New Jersey
Even the Dog Gets a Girl Scout Cookie Now
Patch Pals, the first Girl Scout cookie made specifically for dogs, is more than a novelty line extension. It is another sign that pets are no longer standing beside American family rituals. They are being formally invited into them.
Reported Feature Somerset County, New Jersey