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Nowadays a new demographic has emerged for iPad app developers: animals. Yes, when the job of stimulating your household pet simply becomes too much, you can simply get them hooked on any number of games designed specifically to keep them busy (and away from whatever you're doing that's more important than loving your cat or dog first-hand).

The Journal stopped by a class taught by dog trainer Anna Jane Grossman and watched her smear the screen of an iPad with peanut butter in order to hold a Hungarian hunting dog's attention. She justifies the lessons:

"People always say, 'Oh, can you have my dog do my online banking?' " Ms. Grossman says. In reality, dogs don't "necessarily do very useful things on the iPad," she adds. "But I don't necessarily do very useful things on the iPad either."