{"id":3912,"date":"2012-08-15T20:38:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T03:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/?p=3912"},"modified":"2012-08-16T09:45:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T16:45:26","slug":"pets-technology-its-over-the-top-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/2012\/08\/pets-technology-its-over-the-top-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet&#8217;s &#038; Technology&#8230;it&#8217;s over the top! [humor]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday while perusing news alerts for pets and vets, I came across a press release about a company that has just launched a new product. <strong>Headphones for cats<\/strong>. And these headphones for cats are soooo good, they will set you back $1000.<\/p>\n<p>A thousand dollars!!!<\/p>\n<p>If you are the teeniest bit interested, here&#8217;s a sales infomercial you have to see..<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/isie2VF3VGw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"460\" height=\"260\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to change the housing to accommodate the unique shape of cat ears and to reduce output for sensitivity,\u201d inventor Combs says. \u201cThey also have a mic and remote, but I don\u2019t envision many cats using that functionality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em> (And remember, they only have 10 sets so get yours today!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Technology for pets, like technology for humans seems to be accelerating faster than dog years.<\/p>\n<p>Who would have dreamed 5 years ago that stem cell treatment for pets would become a common occurrence with a high success in reversing limb and joint ailments in dogs and horses?<\/p>\n<p>Medical technology I can understand. Headphones for cats&#8230;well, OK. I don&#8217;t really see a need but if you want to spend the money on your cat, OK.<\/p>\n<h3>Text From Dog<\/h3>\n<p>However, this next one is over the top. It&#8217;s about a texting dog and he has a new book coming out called &#8220;Text From Dog&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s ridiculous. A dog who texts? I have problems texting and a DOG is so good they are making a book out of his texts?????<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a description and some sample text images (and, by the way these are fictitious text messages &#8211; I&#8217;m relieved to say &#8211; that are very funny. I&#8217;ve included a few below)<\/p>\n<p><em>Tumblr blog Text From Dog, which publishes fictitious SMS conversations between a dog and its owner, is the latest web entity to land a book deal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>U.K. publisher Headline Publishing announced Monday it would release the book Oct. 25.<\/p>\n<p>The blog launched in April with a brief description: \u201cMy dog sends me texts. I post them here. Yeah, it\u2019s weird.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dog-text-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3915\" title=\"dog-text-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dog-text-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dog-text-3.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dog-text-3-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dog-text-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3917\" title=\"dog-text-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dog-text-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dog-text-2.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dog-text-2-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dog-text-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3916\" title=\"dog-text-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dog-text-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dog-text-1.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dog-text-1-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday while perusing news alerts for pets and vets, I came across a press release about a company that has just launched a new product. Headphones for cats. And these headphones for cats are soooo good, they will set you back $1000. A thousand dollars!!! If you are the teeniest bit interested, here&#8217;s a sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,295,170],"tags":[1814,1813,64],"class_list":["post-3912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-pet-news","category-vetlocator-news","tag-headphons-for-cats","tag-pet-and-technology","tag-vetlocator-com"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4QGM2-116","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3912"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3919,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions\/3919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}