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...more a dog person." Leifer owns two dogs, a Hungarian sheep dog and a golden retriever, and has no plans to inflict a cat on them. Rosemarie Tauris, one of the story's reporter-researchers, has no pets at present, but once was the happy owner of an alley cat named Fritz. She confesses to "a love for the cuddliness, the softness of cats." Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison, who contributed much of the reporting for the cover, provides a home for Victoria, a ten-year-old Persian Angora with silky white hair and green eyes. Fond though...
Eighty percent of U.S. cats are common shorthairs and mixed breeds-"alley cats" of little dollar value. But the price for grand-championship-quality Abyssinian kittens and some others of the 33 recognized breeds in America can be as much as $3,000. Nearly 400 cat shows were held in the country this year, and some breeders believe the number may reach 450 next year. Last season the tony Empire Cat Show in Madison Square Garden-the "Westminster" of catdom-had to turn away thousands of enthusiasts...
...Egypt), the ruddy-coated Abyssinian is a playful and spirited shorthair. It is also one of the most expensive: a pet-quality red Aby kitten can cost $800, and one promising to become a grand champion can fetch $3,000. The American Shorthair is sometimes incorrectly called the alley cat. Muscular and intelligent, plain or tabby-patterned, it is to most people the essence of the feline, a cat-cat, the kind that shows up for breakfast and moves in with the children. In the purebred version, shorthair kittens cost $300 to $500. The Egyptian Man, a fairly new breed...
City Thrills, The Neats and The Alley Beats--the Paradise...
Halloween II [Pi Alley]: Remember how the psycho disappears at the end of Halloween I after he got killed a couple of times? Well, that wasn't a symbolic depiction of the never-ending fight against evil, it was a loophole that allowed a sequel. Here it is, with the same plot, same characters, same everything. Nietzsche's Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence in action...