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Something in the water. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leeb.

And this is Ghost Town. If you're like me every day you're inundated with products online, not just for you, but for your pet.

While this might feel like a result of the digital era, listeners, I assure you, it is not.

There have always been horribly idiotic ideas and how to take

advantage of our darkest consumeristic urges, even before the days of the internet for us and our pets.

Case in point? Our episode of Ghost Town Today, Thirsty Dog and Thirsty Cat, Fortified Springwater.

Yes, that's right. A product nobody asked for and nobody needed. A bottled water for the

discerning cat or dog. But first, to really talk about this, we have to rewind a bit.

The practice of bottling and selling drinking

water has a long history in America, according to serious eats. In the first half of the 19th century,

bottled water became popular among rich Americans who wanted to, quote, take the waters, both by

bathing in and drinking mineral waters at resorts like Saratoga Springs in New York and white sulfur springs in West Virginia.

By the 1850s, as the practice of molded glass bottles became cheaper and more reliable,

entrepreneurs began bottling those popular waters and selling them in drugstores, grocery stores, and even bars.

The big appeal of bottled water was health benefits, excitement, on the go.

The Ricker family, who operated the Poland Spring Resort in Maine, who also, of course,

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