Word: mistreating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prone to backaches) to monster gas-filled balloons that can deliver anesthetics during surgery on horses. Still, the greatest interest was stirred by the plethora of scientific papers underscoring a little-known facet of the pet craze: for all their infatuation with the animal kingdom, Americans all too often mistreat their pets-frequently out of misguided kindness...
...merely a commodity but art, poetry, flowers -depending on how lyrical or sensual one chooses to be. "Wine can be likened to a living being," say Hurst Hannum and Robert S. Blumberg in The Fine Wines of California. "It thrives on proper care and can turn against those who mistreat it." Restaurant Reviewer Gael Greene, not completely seriously, pronounces Gallo Hearty Burgundy "as refreshing as a 17-year-old lifeguard on the Fourth of July...
...with 25 more cubs en route. Laments La Panouse: "I have given away a lot of my surplus lions to European zoos. But now these zoos are breeding their own lions. Of course I could sell lion cubs for $500 or $600 apiece to itinerant photographers who exploit and mistreat them, or to publicity seekers as pets, but I'm dead set against that sort of thing." Instead La Panouse started a send-them-back-alive project, concentrating on West Africa, which just happens to be short of lions. One cub went to Dakar and two to Mauretania...