Here's something I never saw coming (although I probably should have, given today's media-soaked society); Twitter-obsessed dogs. Or, more accurately, Twitter-obsessed people who want to pretend their dogs give a crap about Twitter.
Puppy Tweets, a new toy / money waster by Mattel Inc., is designed to tweet your dog's whereabouts to their own personal Twitter account. An "electronic dog tag" records movements and sounds and sends predetermined updates to the account based on possible things your dog might be doing – basically, the updates are fake; but you didn't really believe in a tweeting dog anyway, right?
We'll pretend you said yes.
"If a dog is very active, he could tweet: "Chasing everything that moves is definitely a full time job!"" Reports MNN.com. "If he is sleeping, his inactivity might trigger the message: "Your comforter does just what its name says it does."
No word on if more appropriate tweets, such as "eating your entire couch" or "peeing in your closet, LOL!" are available at this time.
If you need another reason to back away slowly from Puppy Tweets, Bethany Frankel, one of those loud Real Housewives of New York, "hosted the official launch" of the product last week. If a reality TV star is hawking it, you can bet there is absolutely no reason to buy it.
Unless you enjoy strapping something plastic and electronic to an animal who's probably just going to destroy if after two days.
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