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...leap from pet to companion has occurred not just in minds but in the legal system as well. A San Francisco city ordinance passed in January adds the word guardian to the designation of pet owner to acknowledge that pets are more than mere property, and a 2001 Oregon measure protects bequests left to dogs. You can forget leash laws; animal lovers are now lobbying their city councils for more dog parks. "This is part of a civil rights movement," says Alan Beck, professor of animal ecology and director of the Center for the Human-Animal Bond at Purdue University...
...German shepherd, Summer, to fly in the cargo bay. She stayed nearly exclusively at Loews hotels, which offer doggie room service, Loews Loves Pets bowls and mats, and a dog passport to document her travels. The valets in Nashville, Tenn., had bones for Summer, and they let her owner know whether other dogs had checked into the hotel and what floor they were on. "She loved the hotel. When she got in the room, she would gallop around and get up on the bed. She was like a kid," Dickson says. "I got her the steamed vegetables one night...
...hours but feel guilty about it can send their pets to day care at Camp Canine, where, for $22 a day, the dogs can play to exhaustion and then watch videos such as 101 Dalmations. "It's like children's day care. They get time outs and treats," says owner Lisa Schettino, adding, "Some of the dogs are cliquey." And for those who are forced to leave their dogs overnight at places that used to be called kennels, there are now Canyon Ranch--style options. At Tappen Hill, in the wine country north of San Francisco, $36 a night will...
...talk show. MICHAEL JORDAN had the Wizards. After 3 1/2 seasons at the helm of Washington's aggressively mediocre NBA team (and two seasons as the team's oldest and best player), Jordan got his walking papers last week in a rage-filled, 18min. meeting with Wizards' owner Abe Pollin. Jordan argued that as the greatest player in the history of the game--and as the man whose return to the court lined Pollin's pockets with $30 million of unanticipated revenue--he deserved more time to turn things around. Pollin countered that Jordan was a poor executive (he commuted...
This was before the days of the flacks and handlers whose job it is to make athletes talk like robots. With owner George Steinbrenner fanning the flames, the Yankees butted heads in the ugliest, most public manner imaginable, then pulled it together to triumph over the hated Red Sox in a one-day tie-breaker play-off that remains one of the most beautiful, jewel-like ball games ever played. Kahn's glittering group portrait paints the Yanks as both goats and heroes, and they are vividly, engagingly, enragingly human in both roles. Kahn is the author of The Boys...