STYLE BUZZ: If you make yarn from your pet’s hair, then you can also make sweaters and hats. People have been into pet hair sweaters for a while, but now they’re not even waiting until their pets are dead .

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The Best Links:

1. Make Yarn From Your Very Own Pets!
2. Erwan Fichou, The Dogwool Photographer (Click Dogwool To See The Series)
3. Wearing The Hair Of The Dog
4. via DeleteYourself

CULTURE BUZZ: Sunglasses for dogs! You’re officially an unfeeling, callous person if you don’t find these totally funny and/or cute.

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The Best Links:

1. Lots of Cute Examples of Dogs Wearing Doggles
2. Fashionable Dog Glasses Are Also Protective
3. Some People Treat Their Dogs Like Their Kids
4. Doggles Review: Easy to Use, We Give Them an A+
5. Some Dogs Are More Sensitive to Sunlight than Others
6. Doggles Keep Out the Debris for Dogs Riding in Cars

CULTURE BUZZ: The world’s most intelligent goldfish can play soccer, basketball, and do the limbo! The next time you’re contemplating whether or not to go to the gym, think of Comet. If you’re less active than a goldfish, you might want to put down the Doritos and get on the treadmill.

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The Best Links:

1. Meet the Fish That Can Do EVERYTHING!
2. Go, Comet, Go!
3. GOAL!
4. Someone Get This Fish to a Bar Mitzvah!
5. Dr. Pomerlau, Comet’s Owner, Claims You Can Train Any Animal!
6. The R2 Fish School [Not a Joke]
7. Should Your Goldfish Go To School?

CULTURE BUZZ: The newest entry in the high-end pet accessory market. Because there’s nothing more embarrassing than going to the dog park when your hairless terrier still has that pasty-white winter look.

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The Best Links:

1. “Kitty Tanning Bed is a Bad Sign for Humanity”
2. For The Pet That Already Has Their Own Sun
3. When Real Sunlight Just Won’t Do
4. Perfect For the Pitbull You Keep Starved in the Basement
5. This Is The Company Responsible

CULTURE BUZZ: Um, the dog pictured here is dead. And freeze-dried. Because, apparently, people do that . Finally, crazy cat ladies have a way to hoard felines without getting arrested! Because they’re all dead!

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The Best Links:

1. Got $400 and a Dead Chihauhaa? Look No Further!
2. The Largest Freeze-dry Service in North America! Who Knew?!
3. You Can’t Stop the Pet Preservation “Revolution”
4. Guess The Dead Pet
5. A Day in the Life of a Freeze-Dried Dog
6. Wait a Minute, Are You SURE It’s Dead?
7. Freeze-Drying Pets: Just Plain Wrong

CULTURE BUZZ: If you’re rich, your pets should think they are, too. No expense of construction or pet-sustaining technology should be spared! Actually, a lot of these seem like they would just freak most dogs out.

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The Best Links:

1. Makes Homelessness Seem Even More Egregious
2. Unclear What Pet Would Ever Feel Happy Cooped Up in This Tiny Box
3. See the Pet Pavillion in Action
4. Put in Your Poodle on Medium for 2 Minutes: Yummy Popcorn!
5. Rachel Hunter With Her Dogs, Custom-Built Doghouse
6. Makers of Fine Luxury Dog Homes

CULTURE BUZZ: Does your pup seem upset or in a general malaise? Rover could very well be suffering from clinical depression. Next time your dog licks his own genitals, be upfront and ask how he’s feeling. His answer may surprise you.

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The Best Links:

1. Reading Your Unhappy Pup
2. Solutions for Sad Pooches
3. Keep the ‘Change,’ Say Crestfallen Canines
4. Today, I read an article that appeared in yesterday’s Telegraph. It contained this disturbing news: More and more suicidal pets are being prescribed anti-depressants. This news comes only less than a week after a report in the New York Times about the antidepressant Prozac and its cousins, including Paxil and Zoloft, being linked to suicide and violence in hundreds of patients over the years. Now, in addition to fearing a violent outburst from one of the over-medicated children in the neighborhood who forgot to take his anti-depressant, I have reason to fear the neighbors’ dogs, cats, birds and other pets. The headlines that might await us in the near future are truly frightening: * Prozac-Deprived Pooch Escapes Kennel, Wounds Six * Depressed Calico Lashes Out at Letter Carrier * Parrot Refused Meds Before Flying Off Perch The future looks gloomy indeed, especially when one considers what the likely defense for dog owners will be when their dogs are accused of biting someone: They’ll sue both the pharmaceutical companies who made the drugs and the veterinarians who prescribed them.
5. Food Puzzles: A Busy Dog is a Happy Dog
6. Canines Respond Best to Classical Music
7. Hey, If Your Dog’s On Prozac, Why Not Throw In A Little Proactiv?

CULTURE BUZZ: Even pets publish these days. Is this taking pet ownership too far? It’s a notch less creepy than dressing your dog up as a sailor and taking out for Fleet Week, but still.

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The Best Links:

1. So Do Dogs Look at Dog Porn?
2. Diary of Bruce
3. Dog Blogs Dogster
4. Dogbook, the Facebook App for Dogs
5. On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog

CULTURE BUZZ: Pet lovers are turning their dead dogs’ coats into sweaters. Wearable taxidermy! Coming to an Urban Outfitters near you sometime in the near future.

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The Best Links:

1. The animal lovers who turned their dead pets’ coats into woolly jumpers
2. Sweaters Made from Dead Dogs Both Horrifying AND Ugly
3. Dog Fur Coats Sold By Dillards, Cache, ELUXURY, And DrJays
4. Daily Mail Story Is Pretty Hilarious
5. Dog Hair Can Create Beautiful Fibers

CULTURE BUZZ: Iguanas, skinks and newts are replacing hamsters and guinea pigs as the popular pet of choice. Lizards are the trendy new pets, especially for city apartment dwellers. We suppose they’re almost as cute as French bulldogs.

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The Best Links:

1. Things to Think About Before Acquiring The Iguana as a Pet
2. It’s Because of ‘the David Attenborough Effect’
3. Funny Photos of Lizards
4. In a No-pets-allowed Apartment, Iguanas and Fish Are the Way to Go
5. Beware of Physical Aggression in Captive Iguanas
6. A Forum Dedicated to the “Bearded Dragon”

CULTURE BUZZ: A food bowl that records your voice and plays it back every time your pet goes to eat out of it. The perfect invention for the type of people who call home to leave messages for pets on their answering machines.

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The Best Links:

1. The Bowl That Talks to Your Pet While You’re Not Home
2. We Weren’t Aware Pets Like Being Talked to While Eating?
3. A Look at the Innovating Products Shown at the Global Pet Expo, Including a SmartPet Doorbell!
4. Hopefully This Will Keep Your Dog from Pooping in Your Shoes
5. Owner Finds Voice Really Is Comforting to Dog
6. Buy One for $24.95

SCIENCE BUZZ: A South Korean company will have your dead dog cloned for $150,000. The genetic makeup will be the same, but there’s no guarantee there will be any similarities in personality.

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The Best Links:

1. It’s Called Gene Banking: Preserve Your Pets Genes for $1500
2. The News Story: World’s First Paid Dog-Cloning
3. South Korean Company Set to Make a Killing
4. Never Having to Say Goodbye: Priceless
5. Clips: Do Women Grieve For Their Pets Differently Than Men?
6. Identical Genetic Makeup Won’t Mean the Same Pet You Once Knew
7. Westerners Interested in Eastern Pet Cloning Technology

STYLE BUZZ: Merge your minimalist aesthetic and your love of furry creatures with high-end pet homes. It’s like Eames meets Iams.

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The Best Links:

1. We’d Totally Sleep in a Human-Sized Version of Eddie’s Room, a “stylish and sophisticated pet cave”
2. Make Your All Your Cat-Lady Friends Jealous
3. The Cardboard Cat Cocoon Looks Comfy
4. If An Architect Built Dog Houses, They’d Look Like This
5. Kittypod - Cat Tested Modern Designs

CULTURE BUZZ: Buy a replica of human fat to help you shed pounds. Weight loss via shame/nausea! A diet plan that belongs on the same list as the A Huge Picture Of Your Fat Ass Diet, the Eat A Bag Of Glass Diet and the Watch Live Cosmetic Surgery Go Wrong Diet. (Not to be confused with fat pets .)

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The Best Links:

1. mypetfat
2. The Newest Fad Is The Gross-Out Diet
3. “It’ss gross but I reckon it could help.”
4. This Doesn’t Appear To Be A Hoax, Surprisingly

CULTURE BUZZ: Breeder hopes mini-pigs will be the next big pet craze in England. Omg cute overload!!! Just thinking about their tiny fuzzy little bellies makes us want to seriously die.

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The Best Links:

1. Check out Tetley, the tiny teacup pig! Pics! SOOOOO CUTE!
2. A Most Adorable Photo Gallery of Mini-Pigs
3. Farm Reaps Rewards of a 9-Year Breeding Programme for Mini-Pigs
4. A Bunch of Adorable Teacup Pig Photos to Drool Over
5. Tiny Pigs for Our Mini Meal Menu? No. That’s Sick…
6. British mini pig smaller than vietnamese potbelly pig
7. What are the characteristics of a MicroMini pig?
8. How do we distinguish from different types of mini-pigs?

BUSINESS BUZZ: A new service lets you rent-a-pet. They call it “flexible pet ownership” - just pay a registration fee, an annual fee, a monthly fee and an hourly fee and take home the doggie of your choice.

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The Best Links:

1. It’s Called “Flexible Pet Ownership”
2. From The State That Popularized Purse Puppies Comes Flexpetz
3. Is FlexPetz For Me
4. Uh, Pets Are Not Disposable Accessories
5. A Flexpetz for my Flexcar?
6. Flexpetz: Good Name Or Just Another Way To Say Rent-A-Pet?
7. Flexpetz Dogs Come With GPS Tracking
8. Flexpetz Is The Cure For My Irresponsible Lifestyle

CULTURE BUZZ: Cat at a nursing home can predict death. Ever wonder what your pets are doing when you’re not home? They’re probably holding seances and communicating with the unborn.

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The Best Links:

1. Angel of Death or Diseased Cat?
2. Does the cat see or make the death?
3. LOLcats of Death!
4. Aloof Cat Can Predict Death
5. LOLMURDER?
6. For Those Not Yet Sick of LOLcat Jokes
7. Psychic Cat Wants to Eat Your Soul
8. Pet Owners Share Their Psychic Pet Stories
9. Your Psychic Pet: A book by Richard Webster

CULTURE BUZZ: It’s an exciting vacation for you and your dog that involves swimming, hiking, arts and crafts. No, you can’t just drop off your dog the way your parents used to because they were sick of you. The whole point is a bonding experience with your dog, although we would imagine it would be frustrating watching your golden retriever attempt a friendship bracelet.

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The Best Links:

1. Counselor says dogs are easier to work with than kids, haha
2. Summer Camp With Your Dog - About $1000 for a week
3. Summer Camp for Dogs and Their Humans - You Can’t Just Drop off Your Dog
4. Camps for Pups Cropping up around the Country
5. Camp Bow Wow Is An Exciting Business Franchise Opportunity

CULTURE BUZZ: Pet store installs a cat washing machine . Do people think this is a joke? I think it is a great idea. Bloggers appear to be diametrically opposed on the issue, probably depending on whether they like cats or not.

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The Best Links:

1. PETA Will Hopefully Kick Someone’s Ass for This
2. You Can’t Keep Clean Just by Licking Yourself
3. Cross Between Washing Machine and Dishwasher
4. Not Safe for Cat Lovers
5. Washing Machine or Feline Torture Device?