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Gemini in Google Home Keeps Mistaking My Dog for a Cat

Julian Chokkattu

created: Oct. 19, 2025, 10:30 a.m. | updated: Oct. 20, 2025, 1:45 p.m.

The alert about the leaping feline is something my Google Home app sent me when I was out at a party. This notification came through a day after I turned on Google's Gemini for Home capability in the Google Home app. In early October, Google updated the voice assistant on its smart-home devices—some of which have been around for a decade—by replacing Google Assistant with Gemini. But with my indoor security cameras, Gemini routinely says I have a cat wandering the house. In the Ask Home feature, you can talk to Gemini and ask it anything about the home.

1 day, 4 hours ago: WIRED