Dec 08
2009For the gambler in the family
Filed Under (World Travel) by Admin on 08-12-2009
A small gift shop in southwestern Pennsylvania has the perfect gift for the gambler who either has everything or nothing.
Dec 08
2009"Cat Cam" Reveals the Secret Life of Cats
Filed Under (Travel Babel) by Admin on 08-12-2009
When you’re away, does your cat play?
What does your cat do when you’re traveling or even just away for the day? Many people think that cats most of the time — some would say the better to be lively at night. Jill Villarreal, an animal behavior scientist, was tasked with finding out for Nestle Purina PetCare’s Friskies cat food. (As an aside, I still thought that Ralston-Purina made pet food and that Friskies was a separate brand — and that Nestle wasn’t necessarily involved at all. But I was wrong. Turns out that Nestle has owned Purina for quite some time and bought Friskies in 2001.) Anyway, this company, which has its own research center in Lausanne, Switzerland, to study human nutrition and other food-related issues, hired Villarreal to discover the corollary to, “When the cat’s away, the mice will play.”Dec 08
2009