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The Lapdog of Luxury
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Jen Chung
Published Aug 23, 2005
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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As with most things involving pets and technology, we loved the story about dog owners watching their pets via webcams at a downtown "pet resort." Happy Paws on Lafayette Street has high end canine day care and gives owners the perfect reason to feel secure and to procrastinate with web cams positioned in various play rooms. The owner tells the post, "The owners go online all day to watch their pets. Some say they can't get any work done at all from checking it so much." Gothamist can only imagine. Now, we are inspired to insist that all of our friends install webcams in their homes so we can see the cats they brag about so much.
Happy Paws even offers its boarders naptime, flat screen TVs and rooms painted with SpongeBob Squarepants. Sigh, if only Gothamist could check ourselves in. We'll have to be content with obsessively watching the Panda Cam to see how big the new DC panda cub is.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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