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Touted as a way to "keep your pet company while you're gone" The Chatterbowl offers you the opportunity to record a ten second message that will play every time your pet takes a drink. Seems much more likely that this will satisfy the pet owners guilt over leaving their "best friend" alone, than actually providing any real comfort to the pet, but what do I know?

I can't help thinking it would work along the lines of the classic Far Side comic where the first panel showed "What we say to dogs" ("Okay, Ginger! I've had it! You stay out of the garbage! Understand, Ginger?"). The next panel showed us "What they hear" ("Blah blah GINGER blah blah blah blah blah blah GINGER blah...).

Tags: weird products, pets