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...Dogs Today, some animals "spend most of their lives in crates or restricted runs, only coming out when it's time for another competition and another chance to make their owners shine." Is this supposed to be fun? The answer must be yes for owners like Anne May from Earlswood, near Birmingham, who shows her beloved English cocker spaniels in about 80 events a year. She spends eight hours on an animal preparing it for the ring. For most dogs, however, the answer is surely no. Beauty shows like these have proved increasingly bad for the health of canines ever...
...Peerage, a leading directory of the British aristocracy, actually spent decades as patients in a Surrey mental hospital; one still survives there. Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, two of the five children of the Queen Mother's brother John, and both severely retarded, were admitted to the Royal Earlswood hospital in 1941. Though Burke's lists the two women as having died in 1940 and 1961, respectively, Nerissa died only last year, at the age of 67, and Katherine, 60, lives in a seven-bed ward at the hospital...
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