{"id":16914,"date":"2022-08-01T16:26:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T16:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=16914"},"modified":"2022-08-01T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T16:26:24","slug":"hot-dogs-and-cats-get-wearable-fans-to-beat-japans-scorching-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=16914&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Hot dogs \u2014 and cats \u2014 get wearable fans to beat Japan&#8217;s scorching summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TOKYO: A Tokyo clothing maker has teamed up with veterinarians to create a wearable fan for pets, hoping to attract the anxious owners of dogs \u2014 or cats \u2014 that can\u2019t shed their fur coats in Japan\u2019s blistering summer weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The device consists of a battery-operated, 80-gramme (3-ounce) fan that is attached to a mesh outfit and blows air around an animal\u2019s body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rei Uzawa, president of maternity clothing maker Sweet Mommy, says she was motivated to create it after seeing her own pet chihuahua exhausted every time it was taken out for a walk in the scorching summer heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere was almost no rainy season this year, so the hot days came early, and in that sense, I think we developed a product that is right for the market,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the rainy season in Tokyo ended in late June, the Japanese capital suffered the longest heatwave on record with temperatures up to 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) for nine days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"691\" data-id=\"16916\" src=\"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220801_1659336195-222.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220801_1659336195-222.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220801_1659336195-222-300x207.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220801_1659336195-222-768x531.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220801_1659336195-222-380x263.jpeg 380w, https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220801_1659336195-222-550x380.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220801_1659336195-222-800x553.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI usually use dry ice packs (to keep the dog cool). But I think it\u2019s easier to walk my dog if we have this fan,\u201d said Mami Kumamoto, 48, owner of a miniature poodle named Pudding and a terrier named Maco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The device debuted in early July and Sweet Mommy has received around 100 orders for the product, Uzawa said. It comes in five different sizes and is priced at 9,900 yen ($74).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News TOKYO: A Tokyo clothing maker has teamed up with veterinarians to create a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,76,71,34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-important-news","9":"category-latest-news","10":"category-world","11":"cs-entry","12":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16919,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16914\/revisions\/16919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}