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Dog Tests Wind Turbines for Green Energy Initiative

As a beneficiary of California’s new Green Jobs program, a cocker spaniel named Buffy is busy testing wind turbines in Morro Bay.

“We need to ensure the turbines are pushing their maximum output,” says Larry Grindholm, an engineer with the project. “If Buffy’s ears blow all the way back, we know we’re in good shape.”

A number of turbines have already been scrapped, as they could not lift Buffy’s floppy, furry ears above her snout.

Via Mike Baird.

Dog Collects Designer Shopping Bags

Margo, a French Bulldog from Chicago, IL, has a very expensive hobby: she collects shopping bags from designer clothing labels.

“She never actually keeps the clothes – she just buys enough to get a bag that she can sit in,” said Chloe Sparks, a source close to the situation. “Last week she bought $3,500 worth of Marc Jacobs pants.  She’s a dog. She doesn’t wear pants.”

According to Sparks, the label-happy dog donates the clothes to charity.

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Via karlapao.

Dog Will Only Watch Movies Starring Dogs

Cali, a pug from Greenpoint in Brooklyn, refuses to watch any movie that doesn’t star a dog.

Air Bud? Awesome. Homeward Bound? Yes. All Dogs Go to Heaven? Of course. Lady and the Tramp? You betcha. Old Yeller, Marley & Me, Benji, even Cujo are all in his Netflix queue.

But try to rent Pulp Fiction or Inception and he’ll flip out.

“I tried to bring home The Artist recently, thinking that because it had a dog in it that would be okay,” said roommate Terrence O’Donnell, “but Cali wouldn’t have any of it. It has to star a dog, or it’s a no go.”

Via heatherbuckhanan.