My friend just bought himself one of these. It looks like a sleeping puppy; its tummy moves up and down like a real puppy’s and it makes a sound like a real puppy would. Except it’s just a brick, a paperweight.
I have no idea why people would get themselves a fake pet. True, if you don’t inspect the animal too closely it looks real, except it’s not. Would I get it to trick myself into thinking I own a puppy? Or would I want to trick others? Or play a horrible joke on someone where I pretend to kill the little creature. Or is owning a fake pet the first step in the ladder of responsibility (followed by a real pet and then a child)?
P.S. Somehow I managed to keep up the blog for over 200 posts now–a big reason to celebrate!
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The plush zoo on my desk at work notwithstanding, fake pets seem like a terrible idea… I wonder what the adoption certificate says…
Oh, if it had an adoption certificate, that would be a totally new level of badness. I don’t think I have a category for this.
I think it does. According to the website, the “bundle” includes the pet, collar, bed, brush, pet carrier, and the adoption certificate.. oh yeah, and the battery.
It’s snowing in hell… (I only saw the dog… Not sure I want to inquire about the certificate). I think there’s a lot of money to be made in fake pets that run on fuel cells that you have to give water to in order to keep them fake breathing and fake purring. Except then it’ll start defeating the purpose of all the fakeness…