YouTube is big on clips of puppies riding skateboards, but less bullish about video producers infusing outside advertising into their uploads. One product design company, however, has managed to skirt that guideline while turning their doggie videos into $750,000 worth of pre-orders for an unlikely product.
Their creation is the Orapup, which looks like a hairbrush with a kink in the handle. Instead of running it through your hair, its bristles get coated with a FDA-cleared, meat-flavored liquid that your dog licks, pulling foul-smelling bacteria off its tongue. While not a glamorous gadget, it raised a solid, if uninspiring, $62,572 on Indiegogo late last year.
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Watch adorable service puppies via webcam
They may look like pats of butter now, but these pups are being trained by veterans with PTSD to one day provide assistance to injured service members.
Puppies for good. YES. (But aren’t all puppies for good?)
Watch. You’ll be glad you did.
How’s your Tuesday shaping up? Watch this. You’ll feel much calmer. And happier.
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Mom walks dog, finds $20,000 meteorite:
Recently, a massive meteorite exploded over Lotus, California, so people have been flying in from all parts of the earthly world in order to claim their piece of otherworldly matter.
Brenda Salverson doesn’t seem to have been caught up in this frenzy, however, as she walked her dog, there was this thing “sitting at my toes like an Easter egg.” Those were the words she used with CBS Sacramento, anyway.
It turned out to be a meteorite worth around $20,000.
Moral of the story: Walk your dog!
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Wherein a man texts with his dog and he texts back.
This is what the Internet was made for. #Meta
Texts from Dog. Naturally.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22jylC1V21qadmxbo1_500.jpg)
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Wherein a man texts with his dog and he texts back.
This is what the Internet was made for. #Meta
Texts from Dog. Naturally.
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Cute Dogs Listening To A Sad Song
Music & dogs. Dogs & music. Wired dogs tend to roll more on the happy side — but we’ll give a shout out to our emo brethren any day.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22ciaqE2z1qz4cuyo1_500.jpg)
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Music & dogs. Dogs & music. Wired dogs tend to roll more on the happy side — but we’ll give a shout out to our emo brethren any day.
Maddie the Coonhound is easily one of our favorite dogs.
Her owner/partner on the road/photographer, Theron Humphrey, talks a little about his project over on Raw File.
Read it! Look at the pictures! We promise, they’re cute/entertaining/awesome.
(Photo: Theron Humphrey)
(Source: Wired)
