The doggy cell phone, announced over a year ago, is still unavailable but lonely dogs and cats can still be comforted by your voice when you're away with a PeTalk Voice Pal. The phone-shaped device stores a 10-second message for your pet that will play back at set intervals until you arrive home. The pet doesn't have to do anything to turn PeTalk on, and can do nothing to turn it off. I don't know...I've yet to see a dog or cat actually appreciate having a phone put up to its ear to "talk" to their owner, but if your dog can recognize your voice, it may be soothed(or terrorized) by hourly chimings of "Mama wuvs you".

PeTalk is available for 24.95 on the voicepals site.