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Frobo Pet Bowl Keeps Water Chilled for 8 Hours

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:02:56 +0000

Summer is coming and your pets need to stay cool. Since they are too short and lack the opposable thumbs needed to work the air conditioner, they need to drink cold water to cool off. With the Frobo Pet Bowl, that water will stay cold for 8 hours without electricity, batteries or having to add in ice cubes every 30 minutes.

The Frobo has a freezable center- just place it in your freezer 2 hours beforehand and it turns a blueish white when frozen. Now fill with water, the rubber base keeps it in place while your pet laps up 24 ounces of nice cold water all day long. Just $29 at Amazon or ThinkGeek (the Amazon description says it comes with 2 inserts, TG doesn’t specify although it’s probably the same- in any case extra inserts are available separately here).

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Frobo Pet Bowl Keeps Water Chilled for 8 Hours

Rocking Chair for You and Your Pet

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:59:09 +0000

Your pet usually ends up sitting under your chair or a nearby table anyway, so why not design a chair that’s for both of you? The “rocking-2-gether chair” by Paul Kweton is a hybrid rocking chair and dog/cat house. Rock out with your cock(er spaniel) out! The chair is made of a birch plywood and has a little shelf underneath for your dog or cat (or other pet?) to sit with you.

Now you can both rock together. Watch your tail, kitty! Pretty cool stuff, Paul’s looking for manufacturers and distributors for his patent-pending creation, so maybe it will be on the market soon.

(the atlantic cities via gizmodo)

Rocking Chair for You and Your Pet

Pool Float for Dogs

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:29:11 +0000

Now your dog can lounge in the pool on a float just like you do without his claws turning the pool float into a pool sink. The Canine Pool Float is specially designed for dogs and made of a tough fabric-covered inflatable 14-gauge PVC ring surrounding a heavy duty 400 denier polyester fabric bed. Steel reinforced construction springs the float open quickly and it folds down to 1/10th it’s size in seconds. It comes in $49 small dog and $69 big dog (65lbs and up) sizes.

Now if you are still worried that your dog will shred it to bits- it’s sold by Hammacher who guarantees everything they sell for life- here’s their quote: “If any of our products ever disappoints you, for any reason, you may return it for exchange, credit, or refund”. So have fun with your dog in the pool this summer.

Pool Float for Dogs

Pet Food Bowls with Handles

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:38:40 +0000

If you have a bad back or difficulty bending over, filling up your pet’s food bowls can be a painful task. So why not put a handle on the bowls so you can lift them up easily? It makes sense. The 16 In Handles Pet Bowls has a long plastic handle to save your back. Great for the elderly and people in wheelchairs too. Two bowls, one handle and the bowls come in small or large sizes.

Pet Food Bowls with Handles

Electronic Goldfish in a Bowl

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:49:58 +0000

Goldfish are probably one of the easiest pets to keep. All you need to do is feed them and change the water once in a while. But the problem is that everybody knows this, so the people who are the worst at keeping pets ending up getting goldfish. The result: face up floating fish get flushed frequently. That’s f’ed up. If you can’t handle the responsibility of a real goldfish, how about an Electronic Goldfish? They don’t need any food, just batteries.

Just add water (or any other liquid really- it’s not a real fish, you could probably use beer if you want) and watch the fish swim around the bowl, electronically. It even has a color changing LED light show for that cool fishbowl effect you need for your home.

Electronic Goldfish in a Bowl

Toilet Bowl Dog or Cat Water Bowl

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:22:43 +0000

It’s the toilet bowl that’s ok for your pet to drink out of. The Toilet Bowl Pet Water Bowl is not only amusing, it’s useful and healthy for your dogs or cats. You fill a two liter bottle with water and place it in the “tank” of the toilet bowl. As your pet drinks their water, more fresh water flows out of the bottle into their bowl. This ensures that there’s always a supply of fresh water for your dog and cat and they don’t have to resort to drinking out of your toilet bowl (although you should close the lid, they probably will anyway). Made of high gloss ceramic, it’s only $39.99 from SkyMall.

Toilet Bowl Dog or Cat Water Bowl

Petmate SqueakBottles for Dogs

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:57:21 +0000

It’s a combination plush toy, squeak toy and crunchy water bottle toy for dogs. Petmate Booda SqueakBottles are plush covers that go over any standard size water bottle. There’s even a squeaker top that replaces the bottle cap to add a squeak to the toy (or to leave off if you find squeaker toys annoying). Here’s a Squeakbottle off the bottle (or on the bottle I suppose):

When your dog has crunched the bottle until it won’t crunch anymore, just slip the SqueakBottle off and put a new water bottle inside. Great for dogs (like mine!) that can’t have stuffed animal toys because they shred the stuffing. SqueakBottles come in your choice of cute purple whale, cute shark, cute penguin, cute killer whale and cute gator for about $12 each.

Petmate SqueakBottles for Dogs

DJ Cat Scratch Turntable Probably Sounds Better than Skrillex

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:05:48 +0000

Move over DJ Roomba, there’s a new microphone master in town and he’s a kitteh. Turn your cat into the star of the show with the DJ Cat Scratch Turntable, the cardboard turntable that your cat can scratch. Hit the floor as the kitty drops a phat beat, like a mini Daft Punkitty playing in your house. Dubstep? More like wubstep, who the wittle wubbywubbystep?

(btw if you don’t know what Skrillex sounds like, you can decide for yourself whether he sounds better than a cat from the samples here, unfortunately we don’t have any cat scratching samples for comparison so use your imagination). $34.99 turns your cat into a possible replacement for DJ Pauly D on Jersey Shore.

DJ Cat Scratch Turntable Probably Sounds Better than Skrillex

EZ Up Collapsible Pet Stairs

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:42:05 +0000

Make it a little easier for your dog to load up into your monster truck with the Domestic Innovations Puppy EZ UP Collapsible Pet Stairs. Summer means road trips with the family and your dog too. But if your pet can’t jump up into the car with you or onto the bed or couch, what’s the point? These collapsible stairs are portable and can adjust from 15″ to 27″ of vertical climb and hold pets weighing up to 30 pounds. Ideal for smaller, older, injured or pampered pets. Non-slip rubber feet keep it firmly in place.

EZ Up Collapsible Pet Stairs

Kurgo Backseat Bridge Keeps Pets from Falling

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:58:25 +0000

Traveling with your dog is always an adventure. Dogs love riding in cars but the shape of car seats is not exactly ideal for them (being designed for humans and all). With the Kurgo Backseat Bridge your dog gets a lot of extra room to spread out and make themselves comfortable. The Backseat Bridge, as the name would imply, bridges the gap between the front and back seat so your dog can’t fall onto the floor or be forced to wedge themselves on the floor. There is a fold down center barrier that acts as a wall just in case you stop short, and also a built in cup holder and pocket. It’s made of a waterproof fabric that’s reversible with a different color on each side to better match your interior and it’s a universal fit for most vehicles. Happy dogs, happy drivers.

Kurgo Backseat Bridge Keeps Pets from Falling