YouTube user sunovia5 helpfully provides a rough translation of the commercial's voiceover dialogue: "'I'm Niyaran. Today big profits are a hard task. (while looking at computer) It's grown! (profits are up!).' Tagline: 'Profitable: Hotel Yakumo.'" So we guess it's a commercial for a hotel that caters to business travelers? Who cares; the silly cat is wearing glasses and taking a plane ride! Cuuuuuuuute!
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No one does "cute" quite like the Japanese. You'd think the ad wizards here in the States would have the presence of mind to slap a necktie and a pair of specs on a cat. I guess if you spend too much time outside the box, you get scooped on an obvious, classic idea like this. Instead, we Yanks get stuck with a talking garden gnome for years and years.
YouTube user sunovia5 helpfully provides a rough translation of the commercial's voiceover dialogue: "'I'm Niyaran. Today big profits are a hard task. (while looking at computer) It's grown! (profits are up!).' Tagline: 'Profitable: Hotel Yakumo.'" So we guess it's a commercial for a hotel that caters to business travelers? Who cares; the silly cat is wearing glasses and taking a plane ride! Cuuuuuuuute!
YouTube user sunovia5 helpfully provides a rough translation of the commercial's voiceover dialogue: "'I'm Niyaran. Today big profits are a hard task. (while looking at computer) It's grown! (profits are up!).' Tagline: 'Profitable: Hotel Yakumo.'" So we guess it's a commercial for a hotel that caters to business travelers? Who cares; the silly cat is wearing glasses and taking a plane ride! Cuuuuuuuute!
Another week, another bear-cub zoo debut. "We'll see your 5-month-old panda and raise you a 3-month-old polar bear," Japan taunted San Diego this week. "Not fair," San Diego's Yun Zi protested after watching the video below. "That polar bear gets her own stuffed toy polar bear to play with. That's adorable. How am I supposed to compete with that?" The dejected panda cub then waddled off into a patch of bamboo to eat his feelings.
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Rabbit for dinner? Don't worry, at the Usagi-to-Cafe in Nagoya, Japan, the bunnies aren't the main course -- they're dining companions, New Tang Dynasty Television reports.
Pet-friendly apartments are hard to find in Japan's crowded cities, so cafes have begun to fill the pet void by letting customers play with furry critters while they sip and snack. Cat cafes were the first to spring up, but now enterprising cafe owners have moved on to fuzzy bunnies. Usagi-to-Cafe ("The Rabbit and Cafe") keeps 18 bunnies that visitors can cuddle after they've finished noshing on bagels, curries, and chocolate bunnies.
And for those who own lonely rabbits in need of a playmate? The cafe has a BYOB policy as well -- Bring Your Own Bunny, obviously.
Pet-friendly apartments are hard to find in Japan's crowded cities, so cafes have begun to fill the pet void by letting customers play with furry critters while they sip and snack. Cat cafes were the first to spring up, but now enterprising cafe owners have moved on to fuzzy bunnies. Usagi-to-Cafe ("The Rabbit and Cafe") keeps 18 bunnies that visitors can cuddle after they've finished noshing on bagels, curries, and chocolate bunnies.
And for those who own lonely rabbits in need of a playmate? The cafe has a BYOB policy as well -- Bring Your Own Bunny, obviously.
Photo: Yoshikazu Tsuno, AFP / Getty Images
That's the gist of what we understand from our dogs. But a new product claims to make it easy to understand what your pup is trying to tell you!
The TakaraTomy Bowlingual Dog Voice Collar is designed to translate your dog's woofs and whines into emotions: Happy, sad, frustrated, threatening, needy or assertive.
While it's certainly a doggone cute idea, ABC reports that not everyone is buying in. For one thing, experts like Kathryn Lord, doctoral candidate in organismic and evolutionary biology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and co-author of a paper on the subject, say that dog barks aren't really the same as human words.
Dog owners aren't convinced either, with many questioning how this can work for every dog. Yesenia Aceves tells ABC, "Since I have personally trained [my dogs] according to the different sounds that they make, I don't know that I would really trust the collar's telling me what they want. I don't feel like all dogs do the exact same bark."
We're not sure the idea isn't barking mad. Although the collar isn't available in the States yet (only in Tokyo), the cost would be around $220 -- that's a lot of kibble! But, the Bowlingual collar can provide "translations" for as many as five dogs, so if you're trying to figure out how your hounds are interacting, it might be worth it.
We have Dr. Doolittle dreams, too, but is this the answer? Let us know what you think in the comments!
Twice the love! Photo: Pucchin Dog's via Getty Images
Puppies are adorable. But a puppy with a natural heart-shaped marking? It's so cute we want to scream.
Born on August 3 in Japan, the long-haired Chihuahua pup emerged with a perfect heart pattern on his side, just like his big brother, Heartkun, who was born two years earlier to the same mother. Heartkun has a butterscotch-colored heart on his left side, while his newborn baby brother, named -- what else? -- Lovekun, has a black heart on his right side. (We defy you to look at their picture without squealing.)
Lovekun was the only one in the litter of four puppies born with the unusual and sweet marking. Both Heartkun and Lovekun live with their owner Emiko Sakurada who runs Pucchin Dog's shop in Odate, Japan. Heartkun, born in 2007, was literally one in a thousand according to Sakurada, who says she bred over a thousand Chihuahua puppies before Heartkun was born. Now, she's got two of a kind!
Does your pet have heart markings? Tell us in the comments or e-mail us at pawnation@aol.com and we may feature them in an upcoming gallery!
No tremor's big enough to bring your prepared pet down! Photo: Rakuten
The earthquake survival suit for pets is flame-retardant and stuffed with enough goodies to get your dog or cat through the next shake up in the terra firma. Multiple pockets hold water, biscuits, sealed bags, and four rubber booties to protect your pet's feet from any rubble or broken glass. It even comes with a bottle of aromatherapy oil -- ostensibly to calm your pet, but why not rub some into your temples as well?
The quirky invention -- which morphs from carrying tote to stretcher -- comes from earthquake-prone Japan and sells for 38,000 yen (approx. $397). Just a bit silly, you say? Maybe not to Californians, who are no strangers to seismic activity of their own.
The only thing missing is a helmet.
Photo: YouTube
After a pigeon built her nest on a bicycle seat outside a home in Japan, the owners removed it (natch). But their efforts were in vain -- the dirty bird only returned the next day to start all over again. Eventually, the owners gave up after the bird (which a YouTube commenter argues is an Oriental Turtle Dove) laid eggs, and have now aligned with the dove and help her protect the area.
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