Clean your car + your dog

According to Le Matin, the Swiss Touring Club offers a new service: it cleans BOTH your car and your dog:

Xmas trip

See on the great blog "Stuff on my cat", a curious xmas vehicle:

Turkeyzilla, The Tote Bag

Turkeyzilla, The Tote Bag is an impressively hand-crafted chicken (made by Regina aka LadyLinoleum):
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Eglu for rabbits!

After the fantastic eglu for chicken, there is now a version devoted for rabbits!

For people unaware of it, the Eglu is an i-mac-shaped small house meant to be used by chicken (and now rabbits). It's designed by Omlet Ltd.

A focus group for dogs

Sylvie reports on this great story about a focus group for dogs: "a a "doctor" Kim Ogden, animal communicator, but apparently these people decided to use qualitative and quantitative data in order to figure out what songs dogs actually want to listen to."

200 canines were queried as to their preferences in lyrical content and music type. This population represented dogs of both sexes, many ages and varied breeds from geographical locations across the US and Canada. Companion, agility, conformation, obedience, tracking, therapy, and shelter dogs were represented. 125 dogs were asked what they would like to hear in a song. The canines were offered a series of choices. For each response, Dr. Kim sent a mental picture of the choice, along with the thought or words about the choice for each topic. The same picture was provided for each participant. Topics were taken from Kr.(sic) Kim's notebooks. These note books provided information for the selections of things dogs often asked for in order for them to be happy or happier.

For music types, dogs across the US from private consultations, shelters, clubs and shows were broken into focus groups, and were provided with 10 four-minute music selections. Dr. Kim then turned on a CD player with the selections and went around the room for each song, pausing long enough to hear what each dog thought. Based on these results, tallies for the music types were calculated. Tracks to the songs were then recorded and Dr. Kim took the selections, via CD and tape recorder to more canine participant focus groups. Comments for the songs were recorded in detail and the music was adjusted accordingly resulting in the first in our "Ask The Animals" series of CDs and videos-"Songs To Make Dogs Happy!".

Dog biscuit delivery in Lego

Some cool folks created this perfect dog biscuit delivery in Lego:
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Superb panda dog

News 3 Yen reports on a story about a fantastic panda-dog:

In the Japanese capital of Tokyo, a dog who looks like a miniature black and white panda becomes a local star.

The dog, named Columbo, is a mixed-breed dog and was adandoned by his former owner because of his ugly looks. Columbo was adopted by a pet store owner who happened to also be a beautician. The man painted Columbo with black dye and gave him panda-like markings.

After that, Columbo became the most popular dog in the neighbourhood. The owner says that he hopes Columbo’s story will tell other people to treat their pets with love and responsibility.