Comments on: Unitasker Wednesday: Kool dogz ice treat maker

By: Michele

Michele — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:57:26 +0000

I laughed out loud at this one – a kit to make a block of ice?

By: givemeabreak

givemeabreak — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:08:30 +0000

@anonymous With all the dying children in the world, why are you using power/money with your laptop to view this site. sell your computer and donate the money to the starving children…..geez what a hypocrite.

By: Jeanne Thelwell

Jeanne Thelwell — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:57:44 +0000

They give the tigers on Tiger Mountain at the Bronx Zoo things like this in the summer — they freeze bones and meat into them. Somehow, I doubt they bought a special mold for it. I suspect they just freeze the stuff in the bottom of a galvanized pail or something like that.

By: Skeemer

Skeemer — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:42:42 +0000

Rachel -

I meant my dogs would lay around, chew on something else, or drive me nuts until the time lasped so they would have soggy treats waiting on them.

By: Doreen

Doreen — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:30:37 +0000

@Lise and Rue
Just like the kid in “A Christmas Story”!

By: Michael@ Awareness * Connection

Michael@ Awareness * Connection — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:29:47 +0000

But my elderly grandfather has to use one….

nevermind

By: amanda

amanda — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:14:24 +0000

This cracks me up. The funny thing is that when I saw this at Target last week I thought I should submit it for Unitasker Wednesday. Ha!

http://www.kiddio.org

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:53:20 +0000

Skeemer that would be the only reason why I buy/do such a thing. It’s like a time release toy.

By: Rebee

Rebee — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:29:14 +0000

You’re welcome! Just kidding, I didn’t send that in, but I wish I had, because it’s amazing. I’ll never understand some people, selling a kit to make ice. But it’s big ice! It’s a novelty!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:21:26 +0000

And I give my dog ice cubes (water) out of the ice cube maker. Poor Jasmine, so deprived. Huh.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:52:17 +0000

That’s bizarre, but I love your Unitasker stuff! It’s always good for a laugh anyway lol.

Just letting you know you’ve been nominated:) http://chrys.biz/?p=1307

By: Skeemer

Skeemer — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:19:27 +0000

My dogs are too smart for this. They’d just wait for the ice to melt & then eat the yummy mound of treats inside.

Cat’s must have invented the ice block to attempt taking over the world. lol

By: Shelly G.

Shelly G. — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:38:31 +0000

I have seen a few sites this summer showing parents how to freeze little toys in ice and allowing kids to dig at it to unearth the treasure… A way to keep the children entertained and cool at the same time… I am fairly sure there isn’t a kit being sold for something as simple as this for parents and children….but I could be wrong… Someone right now might be marketing one…

This whole post totally cracked me up… Because it just goes to show that commonsense has been thrown out the window… Imagine our grandparents buying one of these… Ha Ha… I think not… Why? Because it doesn’t take a genius to know that an old bucket or ice cream container would work just fine…A kit to make a block of ice… Talk about selling the emperor new clothes:)~ I can’t stop laughing… I wonder how many times it would get used before it wound up in the thriftstore or landfill…

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:23:34 +0000

Ice causes microcracks in teeth enamel, letting bacteria and other nasty little creatures into the tooth to create more decay. This goes not only for people (Do NOT chew ice, peoplze!) but also your animals.

Put ice chips in their water instead if it’s that big a deal.

By: Rue

Rue — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:29:49 +0000

@Lise: That’s EXACTLY the first thing I thought.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:59:17 +0000

GAIL — I hope you’re joking. You seriously want to spend 20 bucks on what basically amounts to a stainless steel bucket FOR A DOG? Why don’t you just grab some cups, a pot, or old tupperware from your cupboard to make frozen dog treats and donate that 20 bucks to some starving kids instead? Or if you’d rather not deprive yourself of anything for the sake of the less fortunate (god forbid), go spend that 20 on a book or actual FOOD for your dog.

The current “oooh shiny, must buy!” mentality is what’s contributing to the downward spiral the world is in, and this useless product is a symptom of that. WALLE was right.

By: Erin N.

Erin N. — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:59:09 +0000

I actually thought this would be fun for my giant Newfoundland, but I don’t have a box freezer. To be fair, if I DID have a box freezer and wanted to make one of these for the pooch, I’d probably jsut use an ice cream or other bucket, and not buy the Cool Dogz version.

By: Bosse

Bosse — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:34:46 +0000

First I laughed at the product. Then I thought it was pretty neat. Then I realized how much damage a dog can do to its teeth and mouth with that boneshaped top part.
Then I thought, why not make something similar with a bowl and a knotted rope frozen into the “icecube”? Then I realized how easily my dog would knock half of his teeth out with a three pound icecube swinging from a rope.

Dog toys can be very dangerous. LOL

By: Lise

Lise — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:26:43 +0000

Does anyone else picture the dog’s tongue freezing to the ice block?

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:14:20 +0000

I need to try this with my dog. I’m not sure if I could deal with the peeing-every-five-minutes aftermath though. In the winter when we’d toss snowballs with him, he’d be at the door every time I turn around.