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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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

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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.

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?

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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.

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

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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!

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

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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.

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

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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.

The Best Links:

1. Reading Your Unhappy Pup
2. Solutions for Sad Pooches
3. Keep the ‘Change,’ Say Crestfallen Canines
4. Food Puzzles: A Busy Dog is a Happy Dog
5. Canines Respond Best to Classical Music
6. 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.
7. Hey, If Your Dog’s On Prozac, Why Not Throw In A Little Proactiv?

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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.

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

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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.

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. Daily Mail Story Is Pretty Hilarious
4. Dog Hair Can Create Beautiful Fibers
5. Dog Fur Coats Sold By Dillards, Cache, ELUXURY, And DrJays

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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.

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”

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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.

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

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