A washing machine that's truly for the dogs

Don't like the smell of your dog but can't face being scratched as you wrestle to wash your beloved pooch? Well, a company in Japan has the answer: a dog wash.

About the size of a large packing box and with a glass front door, the dog washing machine goes through a shower cycle, followed by a blow dry. The whole process takes just over 30 minutes -- which must seem like an eternity to the dog Inside the machine -- and costs 1,000 yen (about $11).