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With so many pet stories around the web each week it’s hard to keep up. Table Scraps is our weekly roundup of memorable pet news around the internet.

• If this book suggests any type of career in the fields of sleeping, dozing, snoozing, catching winks or zonking out, my two felines will be joining the work force ASAP. It’s about god damn time. (People Pets)

• It’s always the quiet ones that you have to watch out for. (LA Unleashed)

• I keep a spare dog under my desk for just this reason. (The Economist)

• I’ll give up my phone in the car, but didn’t you read my bumper sticker? My dog is my co-pilot! (The Money Times)

• Yes, but can it scoot on the rug? (Crunch Gear)

Image: angela n.

Last Saturday morning I was working out in Alamo Square Park when some jackass set off a series of fireworks in the middle of the park right next to the off-leash dog area. Dogs bolted off in different directions with owners chasing after them. I ended up having to leave the park shortly after the incident, so I’m not sure if everyone was able to safely reunite with their terrified pooches, but the Lost & Find — a concept for a GPS enabled dog collar designed by Chet Rosales for Laorosa — seems like something that could come in handy in a situation like this.

Right now, this collar is not an actual product that you can buy just yet, but this is the concept behind the product: Attach the collar to your dog when you go on a walk; if your dog wanders out of sight, open the app on your mobile device and track their location via Google Maps or built-in camera with an Augmented Reality viewer.

Via: Dogmilk

With so many pet stories posted around the web every week, it’s hard to keep up. Table Scraps is our weekly roundup of memorable pet news around the internet.

• Hmmm, the evidence that Jesus was a dog is growing… (People Pets)

• Cerebellar Hypoplasia Felines…gesundheit.  (PR Web)

• Lost your cat? Don’t call this guy. Get this iPhone app instead.  (NW ITimes)

• I don’t know what the big deal is, I’m sure it was just stuck in traffic.  (People Pets)

• It’s all cute and harmless until this cat burglar is found handcuffed to your bed with a Lucha libre mask on. (NWCN)

• Well, he wasn’t honking because he got cut off in traffic by that missing tortoise.  (Paw Nation)

Image: Aurelijus Valeisa’s

After reading Sonia’s post on Tweeting Pups I started to think how awesome it would be if my cats and I could really cat chat. Like an episode of Golden Girls, we’d sit around the kitchen table, eating cheesecake and talking about our hopes and fears, all while cracking witty jokes only we got.

Cut to Cat Commander Pro. This iPad app uses a “Computational Algorithmic Translator” to translate human speech into cat lingo! Select the kitty closest to yours and the app will turn your blah, blah, blahs into meow, meow, meows. Finally now when I say to my kitten, “Mr. Tiny Arthur, please let me sleep,” he won’t misinterpret it as “please continue to bat me in the face in the dead of night because you want to cuddle.”

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I discovered this video that Dan Howery made, demonstrating his DIY motorized dog house for his dog Roxy.

As he points out in the video, the door opens and closes a bit too slowly to be completely functional, but it's still a pretty cool concept. Nice one, Dan!

(Motorized Dog House from Dan Howery on Vimeo.)

Wondering how to prop up your iPad while you’re typing away in bed? Do as Ryan did with cat Mr. Littlejeans (love the name, btw).

^{(Via Veronica Belmont)}