为了让全世界孤独的小狗小猫不再寂寞，美国加利福尼亚州的一位宠物爱好者近日别出心裁的创办了一家宠物网络电台。

    DogCatRadio网络电台定位于“所有宠物都喜欢的电台”，现在每天直播17个小时。该电台位于洛杉矶某录音棚停车场的一辆大篷货车上。

    DJ们直接和宠物交流，还要求“宠物家长们”把宠物的照片寄到电台。

    现年34岁的网络电台创始人艾德里安·马丁内兹说这个电台要在宠物“家长”外出工作时跟宠物作伴。

    DogCatRadio每天的节目单包罗万象，从爱尔兰歌手恩雅抚慰心灵的歌声到猫王的经典歌曲《猎犬》。 　

    在一首首好听的歌曲中，马丁内兹先生和其他DJ们还会为宠物的主人们提供一些实用性的建议，当然也少不了播放一些该电台的标志性声音——狗叫和猫叫。

    作为一名独立广播制作人，马丁内兹先生希望广大宠物听众独自在家时能够听听他的广播，虽然还是需要人类提供一点帮助。

    “是我的小猫Snickers促使我做这件事的，”马丁内兹先生告诉纽约时报说。

    有一天，当马丁内兹先生在家面对一只烦躁不安的小猫手足无措时，他发现当他把背景音乐的声音稍微开大一点，Snickers马上就安静下来了。

    “我想为宠物们做些事。”他说。

    这个宠物电台现在声称每周有8000听众通过网络收听他们的广播，目前电台还没有赢利。但是，美国的宠物业每年的创收高达350亿美元，马丁内兹先生希望今后能吸引一些广告。

    A California pet lover has founded an internet radio station designed to ease the lives of lonely dogs and cats around the world.

    Styled as "the radio station all pets prefer", DogCatRadio.com goes out live 17 hours each day from a van in the car park of a Los Angeles recording studio.

    DJs speak to pets directly, and ask "pet parents" to send in pictures.

    Founder Adrian Martinez, 34, says the station aims to keep pets company while their "parents" head out to work.

    DogCatRadio's daily play list ranges from the soothing sounds of Irish singer Enya to Elvis Presley's classic anthem, Hound Dog.

    In between tracks, Mr Martinez and his fellow DJs offer practical advice to pet owners, plus a liberal sprinkling of the station's signature sound - barks and miaows.

    Mr Martinez, an independent record producer, hopes that many of his audience will be listening in while at home alone, albeit with a little help from their human friends.

    "My cat, Snickers, asked me to do it," Mr Martinez told the New York Times.

    Faced with a nervous, restless cat at home one day, Mr Martinez discovered that Snickers calmed down almost as soon as he turned up the background music a little.

    "I wanted to do something for the pet community," he said.

    The station, which claims 8,000 listeners each week through its website, currently makes no money.

    But the US pet industry is worth an estimated $35bn (￡19.7bn) annually, and Mr Martinez eventually hopes to attract advertising.