05.10.04
Social Networking Services For Your Pet
It seems there’s another side to the social networking fad. While services such as Friendster, Orkut (Turkey, I’m still waiting for that email), and the like track the social habits of people on the web, Dogster is targeted at our surrogate children: our pets.
Already, some 35,300 dogs (or their owners) have signed up for the service (some 19,300 remain active) since at least at far back as July of 2003, which is around the time little Estro, dog number 46 and most senior active dog on Dogster, was registered.
Currently, Catster redirects to Dogster, but we can all rest assured that the cat owners out there will jump at the chance when the site is launched.
On a related note, I heard my mom’s dog howling last night for the first time. It really creeped me out. Buddy’s got this long, low, guttural, ambient kind of howl. It seems to come from all around and nowhere at the same time. The dog is dumb as nails, though. The moon had just risen and he was facing west.