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Title: Dog-O-Matic
Post by: long762range on May 17, 2009, 07:47:22 PM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1183016/Is-Dog-o-Matic-owners-best-friend.html

When a dog comes home from a walk filthy and smelling of something unmentionable, the temptation sometimes is to throw the darn thing in the washing machine.
Well, now you can. An entrepreneur has come up with the Dog-O-Matic, a mini car-wash that transforms pets from filthy to fluffy in half an hour.
Frenchman Romain Jarry, 31, who insists the device is not cruel, hopes to introduce it to Britain next year after it proved a huge success in his home town of St Max, near Nancy.

It costs the equivalent of £13 to wash a small dog, £22 for medium size, rising to £31 for the largest customers.
Cats can also be catered for - at the small-dog price

Mr Jarry said: 'It doesn't take long to wash the dog - usually a few minutes. The longest part is the drying. The dogs don't seem to get bored. They just sit there and they come out clean.
'We are really hoping it will take off and that other places will start buying in the machines.

'I would love them to be available in England within the next year or so but at the moment people are still getting used to the idea.'


(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b346/long762range/dogomatic.jpg)

 ;D

Title: Re: Dog-O-Matic
Post by: MikeBjerum on May 17, 2009, 07:50:16 PM

Yea ... Like PETA is going to let that one ever happen.

Title: Re: Dog-O-Matic
Post by: 1911 Junkie on May 17, 2009, 07:59:59 PM

Does it work on people also?
Sometimes you're just to tired to jump in the shower. Bring a lawn chair, sit back and relax............. :)

Title: Re: Dog-O-Matic
Post by: JSC3ATLCSO on May 17, 2009, 08:57:24 PM

Quote from: 1911 Junkie on May 17, 2009, 07:59:59 PM

Does it work on people also?
Sometimes you're just to tired to jump in the shower. Bring a lawn chair, sit back and relax............. :)

Some people need forced into those things.

Title: Re: Dog-O-Matic
Post by: fightingquaker13 on May 17, 2009, 09:09:07 PM

You know, I will admit to getting lazy and taking my truck to the carwash occasionally. But at $55 bucks a throw, the garden hose and dog shampoo are still in my beast's future. Unless she REALLy pisses me off.  ;D
FQ13

Title: Re: Dog-O-Matic
Post by: blackwolfe on May 17, 2009, 10:30:15 PM

There is a quick lube and car wash near me that advertizes that the have dog wash stations, but I have never been there to see what they're like.  I don't think it's any thing like this though.

Title: Re: Dog-O-Matic
Post by: tombogan03884 on May 17, 2009, 10:39:58 PM

So this French "Nancy boy" want's the English to puts there dogs and cats in a washing machine ?
Maybe they should have left that guy with the telescope on the Cliff of Dover.

I dare ANY one to try to put a cat in that thing a SECOND time  ;D

Title: Re: Dog-O-Matic
Post by: Big Frank on May 17, 2009, 10:41:49 PM

Darn. I already spent all my money on a electric dog polisher.  ;D

Title: Re: Dog-O-Matic
Post by: 1911 Junkie on May 17, 2009, 10:45:16 PM

I don't know, it might be nice for the kids. :o
The way they look after they're done eating sometimes I think they might be part animal.

Title: Re: Dog-O-Matic
Post by: deepwater on May 17, 2009, 10:58:23 PM

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I don't know, it might be nice for the kids.
The way they look after they're done eating sometimes I think they might be part animal.

can't you just take a fire hose to them in their cages?  :o oops, sorry.....

Title: Re: Dog-O-Matic
Post by: 1911 Junkie on May 17, 2009, 11:03:01 PM

Quote from: deepwater on May 17, 2009, 10:58:23 PM

can't you just take a fire hose to them in their cages?  :o oops, sorry.....

Wife made me get rid of the cages. Said it "clashed" with the furniture.