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Roundup: A Few Notable Pet Products in SkyMall

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These are not necessarily the best, the most popular or the most useful pet things available from the venerable sky-retailer, but they are notable. We looked so you don't have to.

 
 

At top: Pet observation dome. Left up to you is whether or not you use it for your pet to observe the world, or for you to observe your pet, fish-bowl style.

No words for this. Suffice it to say that the word "crust" is involved in the description on the site. End of story.

Although geared towards dog owners and use in the backyard, we found this one notable for being made out of metal instead of plastic. Plastic food and water dishes can harbor harmful bacteria, as well as leech chemicals into your pet's chow. We're looking for an equivalent for our indoor cat, but no luck yet.

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LOVE the dome!

posted by Hollie on September 23rd 2008 at 1:51pm
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Pretty funny!

posted by quiltmaster on September 23rd 2008 at 2:42pm
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wouldn't that dome be instantly covered in nose prints?

posted by Shilo on September 23rd 2008 at 3:00pm
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Am I the only one who thinks that dome may be a tad unsafe? Not only could it come undone and smaller breeds could escape, I'm sure petnappers could undo it and steal your pet....Not even that, they could see what breed you have and potentially petnap your dog. Cute idea, but just seems unsafe...

posted by Miss Upsetter on September 23rd 2008 at 3:27pm
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I'll be the first to mention that Poop Freeze is an environmental nightmare. Even if it's not eating the ozone, is that really something we need in our landfills?

posted by thebradseed on September 23rd 2008 at 7:08pm
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I could just see my pug using that dome window. His face would fit perfectly in that round dome. Bwahahaha!

posted by umeboshi on September 23rd 2008 at 7:48pm
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Dog drool and nose marks in a week....i dont want to be cleaning that every week hahaha

posted by Tree house on September 23rd 2008 at 8:05pm
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Miss Upsetter-
If someone wanted to steal your dog, I doubt they'd take the time to un-assemble the 'Pet Dome' only to have a small hole to work with- they could just jump the fence.

posted by ekcumbus on September 24th 2008 at 3:31am
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yeah i'm kind of confused on the pet napping comments as well.

Is this a huge problem, never thought of someone jumping a fence (let alone undoing a plastic dome to have a 1' hole to reach their arm into in which they would first have to be able to grab the dog and it would probably not fit through the holes anyways...).

Plus if the dome came undone i'd say it was because of shotty installation by the user...

My corgie would love to use it, if i had a fence to put it on, i;d try it.

posted by jmorey on September 24th 2008 at 4:40am
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Space Dog is on planet Earth.
Could one not just cut small holes in the fence to let doggy put his head in---that would really be funny to be walking along a street and see dog heads sticking out.
I could just see some dog sleeping with his head in a hole down low on the fence.
Second thought, that might not be such a good idea!
We have far to many strange people walking around who would hurt that dog.

posted by poptart on September 24th 2008 at 7:12am
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I'm sure it wouldn't take too much ingenuity to alter a chicken waterer to work as a cat automatic water bowl.

posted by bramasoleiowa on September 24th 2008 at 11:21am
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If it's really heavy plastic I don't think hurting the dog would be a problem.

posted by Snugglitas on September 24th 2008 at 11:54am
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Miss Upsetter,

Umm... pet nappers -- really?

posted by animo on January 6th 2009 at 1:28pm
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