Joshua gets a warm and fuzzy no-prize for bringing us the ultimate in pet therapy:

Jeanette's Taxidermy proudly introduces Pet Pillows as an alternative way to remember your pet. Each pet pillow is hand made from the fur of your pet and made into a pillow that you can display.

"Wow, Jane! What a great night's sleep! I need to remember to visit your place any time I have insomnia!"

"Ah! You must've slept on Mister Whiskers! Isn't he great?"

"But Jane, I thought you said Mister Whiskers was dead?"

"He is."

"..."

I shouldn't make too much fun. We have, and I am not making this up, a tiny household shrine in one corner of our ground floor room on which are lovingly stacked the the ash boxes of all the cats waiting for Ellen on the other side. When I pointed out the startling resemblance of what she'd built to a Roman household gods shrine, she blinked twice and said "well, our people ruled the world for a reason you know."

Ah, Italians...