Then there's another of Bill Ford's pet projects: the world's largest living roof.
It was either sacrifice the netbook or have them on my work laptop throughout the day as they do whatever they do on the UK-based online world of pet monsters.
According to PET South America, an international trade show for pet suppliers, Brazil is now the world's fifth-largest market for pet accessories, worth about 9 billion dollars in 2011.
Bandai, a Japanese toy company, made millions of dollars by transferring the precepts of pet-keeping to the electronic world with tamagotchi.
Neo says it's now the only fish exporter in the world to also sell pet supplies, accounting for 39% of its revenue last year.
He believes the responsibility lies with those in the developed world who are driving the pet market.
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Using colorful and amusing "Pet Pals", children around the world can make their creative contribution in promoting science education.
Though, remarkably, Manuela isn't the only pet tortoise who has recently found its way into the world's collective consciousness.
As a result, plastic recycling programs have met with varying degrees of success around the world: in Sweden the recycling rate of PET bottles in 2004 was 80 percent compared to the U.S which was 15 percent.
Google is also likely to continue long-term bets including driver-less car technology and an effort to scan all the world's books and make them available on the search engine, both of which were pet projects for Mr. Page.
The idea of actually having a tea party, at least at home, has long been relegated to the world of little girls, as a social occasion with dolls, stuffed toys and perhaps a semicooperative pet or two.
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