Americans like to treat their pets like children.   Now there's a product available to help you cart your surrogate child around.   The Happy Trails Plus Pet Stroller, available from Petsmart, is a convenient foldaway stroller for cats and dogs (and other animals) up to 30 lbs.   It even comes in pink!   Possible consequences to the grievous social ill of pet obesity notwithstanding, this is a really cute way to make your pet one of the family!

If we really want to treat our pets like children, the logical next steps are to:

• Make playgrounds exclusively for pets, oh, we already have that.
• Create preschools and schools to send them to during the day, oh, we already have that.
• Invent medicines to tame the hyper active, oh, we already have that.
• Start sporting events for those dogs with a competitive streak, oh, we already have that.

What are the differences between how we treat children and pets, again?