Tag: PETS

Apparently there is no recession at Pets Palace, an Australian pet store that specializes in high-end pet products such as plush beds, denim sneakers, and "doggy bling." Launched only two months ago, Reuters is reporting that the site's business has skyrocketed all the way up to at least 15 orders a day. Say what? Diana Costa, marketing director and founder of the site, attributes this success ...

If you're interested in completely losing your dog's trust and possibly ruining your chances of a happy afterlife, you can't do much better than the Dog-o-Matic, the newest product from French entrepreneur and part-time sadist Romain Jarry. Here's how it works: stick your dirty dog into the oversized capsule, swipe your credit card (it costs $47 for the full package wash), and wait for the ...

Dogs may be known as man's best friend, but one dog in particular is making life difficult for would-be cell phone smugglers incarcerated in Philadelphia prisons. Bomber, a 60-pound Belgian Malinois, is a specially trained pooch tasked with detecting smuggled cell phones in prisons. Since January, Bomber has sniffed out 10 phones while patrolling Philly's six prisons -- to put his success in ...

In what can only be called the next logical phase of the Twitter revolution, a man (who just happens to be a computer programmer) has rigged a cat door to tweet (post an update, in Twitter-speak) every time his cats enter or exit the house. The Tweeting Cat Door, as it's inventively called, was originally created by a guy who seems to be named Ioan and who, along with his partner, was tired ...

Twitter just got exponentially less cool. Using everyone's favorite micro-blogging site, Martha Stewart is now promoting a new blog "by" her French bulldogs. A fantastic substitute for ipecac, the blog tracks the exploits of piteously fancied-up Francesca and Sharkey, and details all of their not-so-enthralling misadventures, such as chasing squirrels and appearing on none other than the ...

Cats are often labeled as lazy, manipulative and generally useless by the cat-hating portion of society (dog lovers). We choose to think of them as efficient, evil geniuses obsessed with shiny/noisy objects and sunlight absorption. Whatever your take on the subject may be, you will no doubt find this video provocative. We assume most of you will use it as evidence in your case for, or against, ...

Two Lawton, Oklahoma teens have been arrested in connection with the now-infamous YouTube videos that showed two cats being beaten and tortured. The two brothers, ages 14 and 16, are believed to be responsible for the videos and are facing charges of animal cruelty. As part of its coverage of the story, the local news station KSWO featured clips of one of the videos (both of which have been ...

Every time we turn around (literally and figuratively), everyone is talking about a new "funniest video ever." Most of those videos come nowhere close to warranting such lofty praise, but every once in a while a true contender comes along and rears its slightly disturbing, fluffy little head. This week's nominee for "funniest video ever" is called "Kittens, Inspired by Kittens" (check out the ...

We've seen the carnage that Wii remotes can inflict: TV's have been destroyed and good old human flesh can barely stand up to the wiicked remotes, but we've never hear of anyone killing their dog before. Poor Kathy White, of Marquette, MI, almost did exactly that while playing 'Wii Bowling.' Right around the recent holidays, her five month old miniature Sheltie, Ozzy, jumped up in front of Kathy ...

We're not really sure why this is so interesting. It's no Puppy Cam, that's for sure, but Cooper, the Cat Photographer is oddly irresistible. Michael and Deidre Cross embarked on a project about a year ago in which they strapped a light-weight digital camera to neck of their orange tabby, Cooper, once a week. The camera snaps a new pic every two minutes and the Crosses post them on a blog and ...

Strapping a GPS tracker to a dog is nothing new, but British start up company Retrieva is offering a smaller and much more feature-packed version that in better economic times might have become quite a hit. Unlike earlier models, which were so large they needed to strapped to a dog's back, the new GPS collar is worn, well... as a collar around the neck. The collar is waterproof, made of ...

Our dear friends at Engadget posted this video of a kitty taking a joy ride on a Roomba, the world's finest vacuuming robot. As we all know, cats and technology have long been embattled opponents, so we find a lot of hope in this instance of feline-robot cooperation. In the interest of perpetuating cuteness, we encourage you to introduce your kitty to a Roomba. Just keep him away from this ...

Mary Hodder, a jack-of-all-social-media-trades, has successfully married her love for Twitter and her love for her cats, the Bits Blog on NYTimes.com explains. Having launched Twitter pages for each of her four felines (CalibanTheCat, MimiTheCat, Pantherthecat and arielthecat), Hodder ghost-Tweets (that's right, you read it here first) for them, discussing everything from the weather, to ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2008/10/29/most-famous-animals-on-the-web/'; Used to be, animal lovers who were stuck at their office desks all day would express their admiration of critters by festooning their cubicles with bobble-head puppy dogs and that one ubiquitous poster of a kitten dangling from a limb with the caption: "Hang in there!" Thankfully, those days are over. Now, ...

We're going out on a limb here and assuming that the Haute Diggity Dog iBone comes jailbroken and ready to rock, or at least that's the impression we get from checking out that heretofore unseen bevy of icons. Customized for the "tech savvy dog on the go," this here iPhone chew toy gives dear Fido access to bark / hand-shake training, posture lessons, Washington Huskies sports updates (it's the ...