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Scientists also take issue with the report's argument that only large-scale industry, on the Soviet model, can mass-produce the toxins. Argues Biochemist James Bamburg of Colorado State University: "You can do it in your basement or a converted dog kennel." What most concerns scientific skeptics is that the physical samples, the crux of the Government's case, are few in number and have been gathered in haphazard fashion. Notes Ecologist Arthur Westing of Hampshire College, who chaired a panel on chemical weapons at a January meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
...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 registered with the American Kennel Club, raising new feline breeds is becoming more than a cottage pastime. After one of their three children had grown up and moved away, Edward and Carol Harrison in Palatine, Ill., a Chicago suburb, remortgaged their white frame house to add on a $35,000 cattery, complete with breeding pens...
...relationships may be heartening, the income is not. Few catteries provide their owners with livable incomes. Richard Gebhardt, 50, the most famous and respected cat judge in the nation, must raise dogs (Japanese Chins) in addition to championship Persians to make ends meet. Says Gebhardt, at his Denville, N.J., kennel-cattery: "Raising dogs can be big business. You can depend on it for your livelihood. Cat people have to love the animal, because there's nothing to get from it but personal ego satisfaction." Gebhardt's glow is provided by Voodoo, a great black Persian champion who sired...
...commercials. Adopted from a humane society, Morris became so famous that his "story" was told in Morris, an Intimate Biography. After he died in 1978, a 14-month search turned up a replacement in a Cape Cod animal shelter. This foundling, like his predecessor, lives on the six-acre kennel of Trainer Bob Martwick in Lombard, Ill. When Morris II flies-first class, of course-to Humane Society adopt-a-pet campaigns around the country, his popularity often leads enthusiasts to empty local shelters of felines. The cause is a good one. Although in New York City cat euthanasia...
...Sometimes Morris is just too blasé," complains Trainer Martwick of his charge. "When some big Huskies came to the kennel, Morris wouldn't get out of the way-he's oblivious to danger...