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The dog phone is a speaker phone with a single large speed-dial button that you program with your work number. Train your dog to push the button and bark. He’ll quickly learn that he can call you at work when he gets lonely. You’ll enjoy taking a break from your busy day to chat with the old Canis familiaris.
Police Cat saves Girl
http://www.channel3...1328041/detail.html
OK, it appears the cat worked freelance but ... [Aristotle, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Give a dog a cell phone
http://www.cnn.com/.../03/spark.dogphone/
News article [omegatron, Sep 13 2005]
Pets Mobility
http://www.petsmobility.com/
Might as well link to the company that makes them... [omegatron, Sep 13 2005]
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<ring>
"Hello?"
"Bark!"
"What is it, girl?"
"Bark! Bark.... Bark!"
"Oh my god! Timmy's fallen into the well!" |
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Dogs are. I've never seen a seeing-eye cat or a police cat or... |
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The difference is dogs love their owners. Cats tolerate theirs. |
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Sorry, thumbwax, but you've kind of proved Mr Klaatu's point. Dogs get jobs. And mostly rubbish ones at that. That's not intelligent behaviour. Cats manage to shirk all responsibility and yet still get fed and cared for - basically, they lead a life of leisure at our expense. They are, without doubt, the cleverest parasites on the face of the earth. And possibly the cutest, too. |
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I thought of making this a cat phone, but I could imagine people saying things to their cat along the lines of: “You never call me. How come you never call? Will you call me? Please?” |
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Cats already have enough media through which to ignore us. |
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The difference is that cats don't have owners. |
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what makes people vote for ideas like these?
not boredom I hope,
Enjoyment I suppose.......aimless good humor??
Warmth......respect..........even ,,, the " L " word |
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oops my whimsey metre's playing up agin: I just ran out unexpectedly.......... |
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What if the dog phones in at a meeting and finds your voicemail instead? would it understand, or would it just stare blankly? |
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I'm sure after a while s/he's get it. Then you'd get messages that say "woof woof", then end of message and know that your dog would like you to call him/er back. |
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this would just worry dogs, I know. its sheep that should be worried, not dogs. |
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my worry is when my psychologist and [jutta] disagree. <heads back under the duvet> |
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//Dogs get jobs. And mostly rubbish ones at that.//
You kiddin' me? Being a Troll-Attacker is a dream job. Besides, everybody knows dogs are the next stage after being human. For comparision, cats are lower forms of life, just above pigeons, who are above amoeba - barely. |
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//pigeons, who are above amoeba - barely.// |
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Not true - Pigeons don't reproduce via cellular fission (or whatever the correct term may be) |
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If all the dogs in the neighborhood had cell phones to talk to each other, would they no longer need to bark? |
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Reminds me of the Tines getting radio in A Fire Upon the Deep. |
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She follows me around enough as it is....>:-( |
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This is nice. I am still working on configuring my videoconference unit so that I can call home from work and appear on the big telly in the sitting room shouting "SAMMO! GERROF THE SOFA!!!". This would make a nice stopgap until I can sort out that fixed IP address. |
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[omegatron] - That is priceless. |
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