DailyDirt: Caring For Our Pets
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
People with pets sometimes go a bit overboard when it comes to spoiling their animals. There's nothing really wrong with that, but non-pet people might question how the treatment of animals can trump the treatment of people. Here are just a few pet-related stories to ponder.- An organization in New Zealand is teaching dogs how to drive cars. Imagine the traffic problems if someone shouts, "Squirrel!" [url]
- Cats and dogs are training their owners to respond to their wishes, just like human babies do. Can you resist a cat's solicitation purr? [url]
- The technology for turning departed loved ones (humans) into diamonds has been around for several years, but pet diamondification is where the synthetic diamond memorialization market is heading. A diamond really isn't forever, but nobody wants to hear about the actual thermodynamic stability of diamonds. [url]
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