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Duckbill dog muzzles, cat shells and other strange designer pet goods from Japan

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By Steven Simonitch

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.

First let’s take a look at quack, “the muzzle that doesn’t look like a muzzle.” Quack is made from soft silicon, making it “friendly for humans and dogs alike.” It comes in three different colors, yellow, pink and brown, and also three different sizes, though there doesn’t seem to be anything for medium or large breeds.

OPPO explains that the muzzle was designed to help owners establish an equal relationship with their pets. The silicon certainly looks more comfortable than a traditional muzzle, but we can’t help but feel there’s something degrading about the duckface design.

Next up is CatShell (photo below), a partially-enclosed cat bed shaped like a shell.

The two lids can be separated to be used as two bowl-shaped beds, but aside that the CatShell doesn’t have much going for it. And it costs 3,900 yen.

OPPO designed the CatShell to provide cats with a comfortable hiding place, but anyone who has ever owned a cat knows that they are perfectly capable of finding those on their own.

The last product OPPO offers is “ketori,” a tool for cleaning up pet hair.

Never mind that feeling like you need a special tool to clean up your pet’s discarded hair instead of just using your hands sort of discredits the whole “living with your pet as equals” ideal, the ketori does seem to be of more practical use than the previous two items. But then again, tissues are practical as well.

Anyone interested in purchasing one of OPPO’s pet accessories should check out their vendor site on Rakuten or look for them in pet shops around the country.

The company itself only began selling these first three products earlier this month and is currently working on expanding its lineup. You can consider us believers once we start seeing duckbilled dogs tottering joyfully down the streets of Tokyo.

Source: OPPO

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Retarded!

4 ( +4 / -0 )

Pets are not toys.

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Japan, its time to grow up, seriously!

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"...we can’t help but feel there’s something degrading about the duckface design."

"You mean I have to wear a duckface? I'll never live this down!"

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Any dog that needs a muzzle to walk down the street need serious help, not a piece of Halloween partyware. The time I had to put a muzzle on my sheba (for painful treatment of a medical problem) I felt like a failed owner, certainly not an experience I would want to trivialise by turning it into dressing-up game.

Nothing remarkable about the cat shell - it's just a bed. If it matches your interior and your cat likes it, fine.

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^ I hate to put muzzle on my dog too, it's for safety purpose. And compared to the normal iron muzzle, this silicon duckface is so much better.

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Why is a silly duckface better?

I've never seen an iron muzzle, only soft mesh and rigid plastic.

-4 ( +2 / -6 )

We used a Leather Muzzle when we had to muzzle our dogs. The Duckbill looks ok a small dog but on a Chow Chow.

Our cats would love that Turtle-shell.

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This is animal abuse!

That "cat shell" is just two pieces of plastic stuck together... and it costs 3,800 yen. Yes, retarded.

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Oh for God's sake... that is just offensive. Animals deserve respect from their owners, not to be publically humiliated and used as a prop for purile gags like this. That poor little dog.

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"Duckbill dog muzzles"

Yellow is defintely the best color choice for that, lol.

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Dogs are the stupidest living things on earth anyway ...

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@majimekun

i think Humans go to the nr1 spot on that, you don't see dogs kill each other for money, status etecetera.

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Dogs are the stupidest living things on earth anyway ...

No, that honour goes to Humans (then sheep)... Dogs wouldn't think duck bill muzzles were cute!

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