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Pet Radio Purrs Around World
The latest in internet audio is the petcast, a special radio station aimed at pets.
The whole idea of a radio station for pets may seem preposterous to some, but they obviously don't have pets or know anything about the often fanatical devotion humans devote to their animal companions.
A California pet lover has founded an internet radio station designed to ease the lives of lonely dogs and cats around the world. Styled as "the radio station all pets prefer", DogCatRadio.com goes out live 17 hours each day from a van in the car park of a Los Angeles recording studio.
The station aims to keep pets company while their "parents" head out to work. DJs speak to pets directly, and ask "pet parents" to send in pictures. They address cats in loving tones and beg dogs not to destroy the furniture or bite the mailman. DogCatRadio's daily play list ranges from the soothing sounds of wispy Irish singer Enya to Elvis Presley's classic anthem, Hound Dog, and the Baha Men's Who Let the Dogs Out.
But DogCatRadio.com doesn't just rehash medleys of old pet-friendly songs or provide company for lonely hounds. The ultimate goal is rumored to be even more far reaching: world peace between dogs and cats.
Adrian Martinez, founder of the radio station and an independent record producer, hopes that many of his audience will be listening in while at home alone, albeit with a little help from their human friends.
Faced with a nervous, restless cat at home one day, Martinez discovered that Snickers calmed down almost as soon as he turned up the background music a little. Quickly realizing how happy Snickers was with some 1980s rock, Martinez set up DogCatRadio to spread the message. "I wanted to do something for the pet community," he said.
The station, which claims 8,000 listeners each week through its website, currently, makes no money. But, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association, there are now more pets than people in the US - 377.8 million pets versus 290 million people. And, Americans, hardly thrifty in lavishing their pets with everything needed for a perfect life spend billions on pet food, pet care, supplies and medication, animal purchases and for services such as training, grooming and boarding, bringing in more money than both the toy industry and candy sector. This would make a station that attracts pet owners a magnet for industry advertisers.
The latest in internet audio is the petcast, a special radio station aimed at pets.
The whole idea of a radio station for pets may seem preposterous to some, but they obviously don't have pets or know anything about the often fanatical devotion humans devote to their animal companions.
A California pet lover has founded an internet radio station designed to ease the lives of lonely dogs and cats around the world. Styled as "the radio station all pets prefer", DogCatRadio.com goes out live 17 hours each day from a van in the car park of a Los Angeles recording studio.
The station aims to keep pets company while their "parents" head out to work. DJs speak to pets directly, and ask "pet parents" to send in pictures. They address cats in loving tones and beg dogs not to destroy the furniture or bite the mailman. DogCatRadio's daily play list ranges from the soothing sounds of wispy Irish singer Enya to Elvis Presley's classic anthem, Hound Dog, and the Baha Men's Who Let the Dogs Out.
But DogCatRadio.com doesn't just rehash medleys of old pet-friendly songs or provide company for lonely hounds. The ultimate goal is rumored to be even more far reaching: world peace between dogs and cats.
Adrian Martinez, founder of the radio station and an independent record producer, hopes that many of his audience will be listening in while at home alone, albeit with a little help from their human friends.
Faced with a nervous, restless cat at home one day, Martinez discovered that Snickers calmed down almost as soon as he turned up the background music a little. Quickly realizing how happy Snickers was with some 1980s rock, Martinez set up DogCatRadio to spread the message. "I wanted to do something for the pet community," he said.
The station, which claims 8,000 listeners each week through its website, currently, makes no money. But, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association, there are now more pets than people in the US - 377.8 million pets versus 290 million people. And, Americans, hardly thrifty in lavishing their pets with everything needed for a perfect life spend billions on pet food, pet care, supplies and medication, animal purchases and for services such as training, grooming and boarding, bringing in more money than both the toy industry and candy sector. This would make a station that attracts pet owners a magnet for industry advertisers.
. Me with my 6 fish tanks and 5 ferrets(for now) prove this to be true. But with ferrets at <2lbs, they hardly create the negative draining effect we humans have.