When I said that the world doesn’t need dog collars, a few individuals said that it doesn’t really hurt – that dogs really didn’t really noticed. Well, as this video of testing in humans shows, dog collars do indeed hurt. More »
This week GPS manufacturer Garmin bought a company called Tri-Tronics. They make shocking collars for dogs. You know those things: push button, electric charge makes your dog suffer, dog does something. These are gadgets we don’t really need. More »
Salem, Oregon resident Todd Marcum, whose name we will use repeatedly because of the nature of his crime, has been arrested for maliciously abusing his four young children with an electric dog collar.
The Float-A-Pet collar is two gadgets in one: a water-sensing inflatable floaty, and an LED locator. The other dogs may make fun of him, but that’s a trade-off he’s probably willing to make.
People have long considered magnets to be a source of health and beauty, but in 1961 they took this mumbo jumbo very seriously.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been pushing for a Russian satellite navigation system known unfortunately as GLONASS, and yesterday the system had its first launch: a tracking collar for the PM’s dog, a black labrador named Koni. According to Putin, “She’s wagging her tail, she likes it.”
