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	Pet Rock Page
		Pet Rocks were a 1975 fad originated in California by salesman, Gary Dahl.
		The rock will never know what the paper is for and will require no further instruction.' To Accompany the book, Dahl decided to actually create a Pet Rock.
		The Pet Rock was introduced at the August gift show in San Francisco (the gift market is much easier to break into than the cutthroat toy market), then in New York.
	www.virtualpet.com /vp/farm/petrock/petrock.htm (876 words)

	Pet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A pet is an animal that is kept (mostly by humans) for companionship and enjoyment, as opposed to livestock, which are kept for economic reasons.
		While in theory one could keep any animal as a pet, in practice a small number of species of mammals, especially dogs and cats, and other animals such as birds have dominated the pet scene for a very long time.
		A pet can be acquired from a pet store, an animal shelter, a breeder, and sometimes from people who have too many due to births.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pet (459 words)

	Pet rock -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pet rocks were a (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s (An interest followed with exaggerated zeal) fad conceived by (A state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes) California salesman Gary Dahl.
		Pet rocks were ordinary rocks bought at a hardware store, and marketed as if they were live (A domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement) pets.
		The rocks came nestled in straw, contained in a small box similar to a pet carrier.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/pet_rock.htm (229 words)

	Keeping and training a Pet Rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pet Rocks are the ideal pet for both the inexperienced pet owner and for those too busy to spend a lot of time on pet care.
		You may need a Pet rock that you can carry around with you to keep you company or, you may want a Rock to guard your house when no-one is at home.
		Pet Rocks can be sold to friends and relatives or you may want to have them sold by some of your local shops.
	www.grandpapencil.com /pets/petrock.htm (535 words)

	Pet Rocks Rule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pet rocks are guaranteed to never need trips to the vet, expensive diets, litter box training, or a fenced-in yard.
		Igneous rocks, born in the fire of volcanoes and lava, might be slick or rough, depending on how and where they cooled.
		A boy who has "rocks in his pockets and rocks in his head" grows up in America's hard times of the 1920s, but he never forgets his dream and eventually lands a job as a curator of minerology in a museum.
	www.kidspoint.org /columns2.asp?column_id=1069&column_type=kpfun (664 words)

	ROCKS, ROCKS, AND MORE ROCKS
		As they view the video, the rock cycle will be discussed and students will fill in the appropriate blanks for each phase of the rock cycle on worksheet 1.
		Ask "What do you think will happen when the rock completely dries and is put in a jar of water?"(accept all answers) Tell them that you will get back to this question the next day to give the rock plenty of time to dry.
		Have the Rock Hound Group from one the nearby universities come in to your school and have them reinforce the lesson objectives we have discussed with the students.
	www.kedt.org /Ed/LessonPlanswithVideo/lpeclassifyrockformations.htm (1775 words)

	Pet Rocks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		And as the inventor of the "pet rock", he suggested that the pet rock is "an ideal pet - easy and cheap, and it had a great personality" (Stern 380).
		Pet rocks are only "uniform-size, rounded gray pebble that sold for a penny" at Rosarita Beach in Baja, Mexico, packaged in a gift box shaped like a pet carrying case, accompanied by the "Pet Rock Training Manual" (Stern 380).
		Pet rocks are packaged in gift boxes that imitate real pet-carrying cases.
	individual.utoronto.ca /elaine/petrock.htm (588 words)

	BCSPCA Kids Club Crafty Corner Pet Rocks
		Pet rock cats make good paper weights, door stops, book ends, room decorations or just good solid companions.
		Rocks can be found almost everywhere — in your own backyard, beside a river or lake, or at the beach.
		Remember, the first pet rock you paint may not be perfect, but keep painting, and your rock art will improve.
	www.spca.bc.ca /Kids/KidsClub/CraftyCornerRocks.asp (713 words)

	Pet Rocks
		Pet Rocks were a 1970s fad conceived by Los Gatos, California, advertising executive Gary Dahl.
		The first Pet Rocks were ordinary gray pebbles bought at a builder's supply store and marketed as if they were live pets.
		A "Pet Rock Training Manual," with instructions on how to properly raise and care for one's newfound pet (notably lacking instructions for feeding), was included.
	www.mypets.net.au /flex/pet_rocks/63/1 (350 words)

	The Bad Fads Museum - Pet Rocks
		For a six month period in 1975, the rocks (which were first introduced in the San Francisco area) were given as gifts to friends and family members, packaged in boxes with an owners manual and often with birth certificates or papers so as to affirm purebreed lineage.
		Though initially just plain rocks, they quickly were sold in a variety of looks, often with small faces painted on, often sold as a group of pebbles, symbolizing a small family.
		It is not difficult to imagine that the popularity of the rocks was short-lived but before they went out of style, more than 5 million had been sold, proving that no matter how ridiculous a concept, millions of people would have no problem making someone else wealthy for daring to present them with it.
	www.badfads.com /pages/collectibles/petrock.html (181 words)

	Virtual Pet Rock - Frequently Asked Questions
		Virtual Pet Rocks are pretty hard to confuse but they are also very much set in their ways.
		We only offer virtual pet rocks of types that are known to be fully compatible with human behaviour, the last thing we would want is cultural misunderstandings between you and your rock.
		Virtual pets are people too and just like we dislike people who dump dogs in a forest we abhor people who abandon their virtual rocks just because they don't care for the responsibility of caring for an inanimate object.
	www.virtualpetrock.nl /faq.php (1607 words)

	Pet Rocks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They will collect rocks during the unit then select materials to utilize to transform their rocks to a "pet".
		This lesson is a closure to an indepth 1-2 week study of the 3 types of rocks, fossil formation, Moh's Scale of Hardness, and other classification techniques.
		The student will collect several rocks and use a variety of materials to make a "pet rock" and a "house" or "bed" for the pet.
	www.monroe.k12.la.us /mcs/hot_list/professional/mcs_lp/intech/pet_rocks.html (482 words)

	X-Entertainment: Superman's KRYPTONITE ROCKS!
		Simple rocks brushed with green paint were sold by the thousands, and while some of the credit has to go to Pro Arts, a much bigger part was played by the then-popular 'pet rock' craze.
		Pet rocks were everywhere in the 70s, but believe it or not, the entire fad started with a single man's vision.
		By the time those rocks were finally left on a kid's front stoop, he'd probably built the beasts up to the point where he half-expected them to have little mouths that spit out gold coins at will.
	x-entertainment.com /articles/0789 (2105 words)

	Pet Rocks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pet Rocks represented everything beautiful and everything lamentable about America in the '70s.
		If you are asking "What is a Pet Rock?" then read on.
		Pet Rocks were made by Gary Dahl's Rock Bottom Productions in 1975.
	bigredtoybox.com /cgi-bin/toynfo.pl?petrockindex (227 words)

	Pet Rocks Science Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Worksheet, or Biology or Chemistry Teaching Idea
		Ask them to find one rock that has at least one flat side and is about the size of their palm.
		If there is no place for the children to go rock collecting, then the teacher can either bring the rocks in himself, or may ask the children to bring one from around their home.
		After the children are finished with their pet rocks, have them create a profile of their pet rock.
	www.lessonplanspage.com /ScienceMathMusicPEArtSSLAMDRocks-PetRocks12.htm (361 words)

	Pet A Rock - Painted Rocks, Stones, Pet Memorials & "How To" Instructions
		Rock painting is also perfect for a dearly missed pet.
		A memorial rock can also be used as a pet grave marker since it can be displayed indoors or outside.
		Rock painting is a very affordable type of decorative painting.
	www.homestead.com /petarock (250 words)

	www.iengraverock.com/petmemorials, Superior Stone, rocks, stones, pet, engraved rock, engraved pet memorial rocks, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		www.iengraverock.com/petmemorials, Superior Stone, rocks, stones, pet, engraved rock, engraved pet memorial rocks, engraved pet memorial stones
		pet with one of our engraved pet memorial rocks.
		The cost of the rock is included in the price.
	www.iengraverock.com /petmemorials.html (320 words)

	human factors matrix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The rocks were sold in boxes with air holes and came with a manual explaining how to train the rock to roll over (with a gentle push), to play dead (no assistance required), and to protect its owner (curled inside your fist).
		The pet rock phenomenon indicates that there are absurd but powerful cultural forces at work.
		The pet rock may not be the best example of cultural human factors, but it represents a product that is pure culture.
	www.id.iit.edu /profile/gallery/matrix/pro_cul7.html (165 words)

	If the RIAA Sold Pet Rocks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Successful in convincing Arizona to pass legislation prohibiting the removal of rocks across state lines (with special provisions prohibiting in-state sale of "nice flat ones that you could glue eyes on"), they were not as lucky in other states.
		The PRAA has filed an injunction against Spencer Gifts for allowing people to see what the rock looks like before they decide to buy it, a practice which has been determined to be the biggest contributing factor in the decline of authorized Pet Rock sales.
		The hardest part for the aging rock pickers to deal with is the lack of retirement benefits.
	www.azoz.com /news/0026.html (918 words)

	harrismn_esact.html
		For example, if students find a buried sedimentary rock, they should look for evidence such as fossils to tell them the geological time of the rock as if they were a scientist.
		Students will then pretend that these rocks are fossils and use different materials such as paste, dirt from outside, planting soil, juice, water, pop, potato, etc. to find out under what conditions can these rocks(fossils) be preserved.
		Slow cooling of igneous rocks form large crystals and slow cooling of igneous rocks form "small intergrown crystals." Texture is a very important characteristic of the igneous rock because it tells a lot about the environment at which the rock was formed (Tarbuck and Lutgens, p.
	www.umd.umich.edu /sep/students/harrismn/harrismn_esact.html (1430 words)

	Clinton defends his pet dog, Rocks
		The allegations concerning President Flinton's pet, Rocks, are provocative.
		Reportedly, Rocks will accompany the President and provide his all-male testimony willingly as he has reportedly been well-trained all along not to do the sort of thing he is accused of doing because, after all, he is Rocks, the first dog.
		More speculation centers around reports that the sample preserved excrement alleged to be Rocks is easily identifiable and in fact may have been diseased before allegedly being let loose in the middle of the now famous, but nonetheless, still non-public, street.
	www.uhuh.com /clinton/petrocks.htm (959 words)

	Free Craft Newsletter - Summer 2002 Free Craft Projects
		While the rock is drying take a pencil and paper and draw the approximate shape of your rock and looking through the other supplies decide what will be used to decorate your new pet.
		Draw the front paws, the mouth, the kind of ear your pet should have, mark where the tail should go and draw the back legs and then draw in any other designs you think would look good on your pet rock.
		When the rock is totally dry place it beside your picture and copy all the drawings from the picture onto the rock with the permanent markers.
	www.wwvisions.com /newsletter/sum2002/rocks.htm (588 words)

	Pet Brick FAQ
		A tiny minority of bricks, however, are unfortunately kept for human consumption, a use that is thankfully dwindling under the force of anti-brick-cruelty laws.
		These wild bricks are more commonly called "rocks." Over the past several decades "pet rocks" have become popular, but as this requires removing a wild rock from its natural habitat this is discouraged.
		Introducing your new pet brick to other pets, such as rats, can be a bit more challenging, especially as the quicker pets may intimidate the brick.
	www.ratbehavior.org /petbrickfaq.htm (1425 words)

	Grant Killian's Blog : Pet Rocks and how a new blog is born every 7.4 seconds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pet Rocks and how a new blog is born every 7.4 seconds
		Maybe a blog is the “pet rock” of the 21st century: everybody had a pet rock in the 70s.
		I have to admit blogs are much more functional than pet rocks, however, as blogs are a communication medium in their own right and I find them very useful for staying on top of development news etc. I'll keep my 21st century pet rock around for the time being, thank you.
	www.codebetter.com /blogs/grant.killian/comments/28326.aspx (317 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Pet Rocks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pet Rocks were among the most popular gifts of 1975, and the name has become synonymous with ridiculous fads.
		By Christmas of 1975, Dahl had sold two-and-a-half tons of Pet Rocks, or one million rocks, and had become a millionaire.
		The Pet Rock was packaged in a cardboard "pet" carrying case and came with the Pet Rock Training Manual.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100947 (238 words)

	California Dreaming - The Return of Pet Rocks
		The PET ROCK is a whimsical, low-cost, low-tech and low maintenance cornerstone of that revival.
		Each Pet Rock comes in its own travel case/bedroom, with a manual: How to Raise your Pet Rock, highlighting the joys and tribulations of ownership, The Pet Rock boxes come in a choice of deep purple, hot pink, lime green or paper bag brown.
		The Pet Rock was first introduced in 1976 and was an immediate hit, selling nearly 1.5 million in six months.
	www.califmall.com /PetRock.html (354 words)

	Pet Memorials — Pet Urns - Cremation Jewelry — Keepsakes — Caskets for Cats and Dogs
		Pet Caskets for pets of any size and in many colors.
		Loosing a Pet is a very emotional experience and we like to offer our help in creating a memorial and memory of your lost loved pet.
		We offer a large selection of pet memorials, pet headstones, pet urns, pet caskets, pet cremation jewelry pet keepsakes and many more pet memorial products.
	www.prestigepetmemorials.com (355 words)

	AR-News: (Ca) Don't treat certain breeds of dog as disposable pet rocks
		When individuals purchase fad pets, they are often disappointed when the pet doesn't behave like its screen counterpart.
		However, it is surprising that many adults will gratify their child's, or their own, whim by buying one of these animals without considering the responsibilities of owning a pet, or familiarizing themselves with the particular breed they are purchasing.
		Exercise caution if you are purchasing from a pet shop as many of these dogs often come from "puppy mills" and can be medically and behaviorally compromised.
	lists.envirolink.org /pipermail/ar-news/Week-of-Mon-20030915/006803.html (610 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Education -- Pet rocks
		Krishnan, a 15-year Del Mar resident, was teaching her students about rocks, sand and soot when the Paradise and Cedar fires ravaged parts of the county.
		Accompanying each pet rock was a note, hand-written by a second-grader.
		Once the rocks were decorated, Krishnan wrapped each one in a box with the accompanying note.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/education/20031224-9999_m1m24tfdmar.html (452 words)

	Precious Pet Rock
		Pet Rocks are fun-to-make, fur-free companions for your little animal enthusiast.
		Use paint to color the rocks wild or wacky colors, glue google eyes, feathers, and material to add personality to your pets.
		When your pets are dry, set them up in their new homes of display them on a windowsill or desk.
	www.scholastic.com /schoolage/activities/k_2/rock.htm (268 words)

	pet memorial rock Custom Engraved Pet Memorial Rock [] - $60.00 : Zen Cart!, The Art of E-commerce
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		Custom engraved pet memorial rocks are priced by the line so you can get what you truly want engraved on your rock.
		These stones are engraved on granite river rocks.
	iengraverock.microcomps.com /index.php?main_page=index&cPath=4 (127 words)

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