Posts Tagged ‘cute’

Self Checkout Meow

“Nanikore” finds a supermarket in Wakayama prefecture where the self checkout machines make animal sounds instead of beeps:

They did it to entertain children. The self checkout machines make cat sounds, dog sounds, and sheep sounds.

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Japanese Penguin Robot

On last week’s episode of “Shimura Zoo,” Masaki Aiba build a penguin robot and used it to lead a group of penguins to a swimming pool (you know that it is really “high quality” robot because he is smoking a pipe and they went through the trouble of writing it out in English):

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Dog Castle: The Most Awesome Dog House in Japan

“Nanikore” travels to Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture to show us a truly awesome dog house:

The dog lives in a mini castle! It’s a 2.5-meter-high replica of Matsumoto Castle. The dog’s owner spent 6 months and 50,000 yen to build it. It contains one main room, plus a rear room in which the dog can hide during thunder storms. There is also a separate room with a sand floor, which is meant to offer a surface on which the dog can feel cool during the summer months.

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Dog bathing suits and bikinis

As we’re getting towards the end of 2009, it’s about time I did some winter cleaning and finish a few posts I initially planned to make several months ago. Here’s one of a fashion show for dog swimwear that was held in Taiwan but was deemed newsworthy in Japan:

P.S. – If you’re in Japan and want to buy wacky clothes for your dog, head to a big shopping mall and look for Pet Paradise. [shop list here]

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Another eyebrow dog

Forget about that last dog with eyebrows. Here’s Ran, a dog in Osaka with really thick eyebrows:

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Cat vs. Window

A cat named Sena forgets that there is a window between herself and a railing:

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