Make Your Own Pet Dinosaur

From Robo-Raptor to Pleo to Kota, toy makers seem to love the idea of creating pet dinosaurs. The problem is that these plastic playmates are often exorbitantly expensive and have a limited number of behaviors, quickly losing their charm.

If you really must have a pet dinosaur, there is a cheaper way to do it. If you have a dog, you can dress it up in a “Dogzilla” costume and pretend that you’ve got a pet like a certain modern stone-age family. If you have cats, though, you know well enough not to try doing the same with them. The pictures you get might be cute, but is it really worth the price of your feline friend puking on your bed in revenge?

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Riley Black is the author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs and many other books. She is a science correspondent for Smithsonian magazine covering fossils and natural history, and she writes about the prehistoric past for a variety of publications.