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Duckbill Dog Muzzles, “Cat Shells” and Other Strange Designer Pet Goods From Japan

Duckbill Dog Muzzles, “Cat Shells” and Other Strange Designer Pet Goods From Japan

Japanese designer pet supplies maker OPPO aims to create products that “offer a lifestyle where humans and pets can coexist naturally as animals.”

While they don’t offer any explanation of what that actually means, a product lineup featuring items like “quack,” a duckbill-shaped muzzle, and “CatShell,” a shell…for cats, suggests what they’re really saying is: “here’s more ways for you to spend money on things your pet doesn’t need.

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This Tomato Looks Like a Duck

This Tomato Looks Like a Duck

Gather around kiddies, today we’d like to tell you the story of “The Ugly Tomato Duckling.

One sunny day in the peaceful city of Numazu in Shizuoka prefecture, old lady Chieko Saito was working in her restaurant “Hakuba” when one of her customers presented her with a bag of fresh tomatoes. Among the fruit, all red and plump, was a homely little creature that resembled something of a duckling more than a tomato.

That’s right children, it was the ugly tomato duckling.

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