Yes, that’s right, I said Tweets, not treats. Did I lose your interest? Of course I did, you are Rottweilers, so of course you would be way more interested in treats than Tweets.
Mattel’s Puppy Tweets, set to come out this fall, is kind of a cute idea. It consists of a USB receiver for your (or your dog’s) computer and a tag for your dog to wear. You need to load software for the receiver onto the computer and set up a Twitter account for your dog. Or maybe your dog is technically inclined and can do it himself (or herself). When the dog barks or moves, the tag sends a signal to the receiver, and one of 500 canned Tweets is sent out via the dog’s account. Kind of cute, huh?
But at $29.99, I doubt I’ll be doing it. The tag looks a bit too easy for a Rottweiler to destroy, and to leave one of the laptops on all day to get only faux communication with the dogs seems a little silly to me.
Besides. If Freya and Axel wanted to be on Twitter, they already would be. Or maybe they are, and just don’t want me to know. Look up there at the header. That’s Freya at age nine weeks, taking over my laptop when I got up to get a drink. She is six years old now. I am sure she has learned a lot since then. She is probably already managing multiple Twitter accounts with TweetDeck and cannot imagine how humans could be dumb enough to think that she needs something like Puppy Tweets.
I have not received compensation for this preview, and I have no connection to Mattel.
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