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No cats are better cared for than the 45,000 highly bred and often exotic pedigreed cats on the books of America's nine registry groups (see box). The Cat Fanciers' Association, the leading agency, lists 38,152 cats. While this hardly compares with the 26 million dogs...
From the cameo-smoke Maine Coon to the lavender-silver . Oriental Shorthair, there are approximately 50 hue and pattern variations of fur among the 33 breeds recognized by the Cat Fanciers' Association. But differences other than the decorative are important to prospective owners. Personality, price, size and even voice...
Probably the first domestic to appear in a painting (circa 2000 B.C., 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...
At the far end of the room stood James Smith, manager of Business Environment Scanning. Listening to the exchange, he observed that the group has been hearing more and more about such exotic-sounding materials lately. This prompted another TEAM member, Joseph Grippo, a senior management consultant at SRI, to...
In a Manhattan restaurant, a round, balding actor-playwright named Wallace Shawn sits down to dinner with a lean, overarticulate theatrical director named André Gregory. The friends have not seen one another for some years mostly because Gregory has spent that time searching the world for transcendental experiences. He...