People With Too Much Money

     How many stories have you seen about people giving up their family pets because they can no longer afford them during the Great Recession?
Apparently there are other pet owners out there with money to burn. Witness this offering from the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog:

The catalogue describes the benefits this way:

By providing an alternative to sitting on your lap, running disruptively underfoot, or outright banishment, the chair assuages a pet (and its owner's) frustration, and promotes more refined behavior.

Right.
Excuse me, but am I being punked? Did the HS folks put this in their catalog just to get people talking?