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Fashion Victims Purebred dogs are engineered to achieve a carefully defined look that can include stylishly exaggerated features - and some unwanted afflictions ... CAVALIER KING CHARLES SPANIELS: These dogs have a serious problem with inherited mitral valve disease, and are more than 50% likely to have heart murmurs by the age...
Or maybe not. The city government has served the Peis two letters. One, dated last spring, promised the house will not be destroyed, because it was designated a historic monument in 1999. The other, which arrived in late January, gave the family one month to find a new home. "I...
The Pei family house sits where a manmade canal will meander through a grove of trees in a few months' time. Once, behind the mansion was an even more elaborate garden. But at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, the Peis were forced to move into the servants' quarters and...
Yet even if they had chosen another breed, the Metzgers would have been taking a chance. The appalling truth is that as many as 25% of the 20 million purebred dogs in America -- 1 in 4 animals -- are afflicted with a serious genetic problem. German shepherds, for example, run an...
Biologically, this is just asking for trouble. For one thing, the characteristics judges and clubs have decreed to be gorgeous can themselves be bad for the animals' health -- huge heads on bulldogs that make it difficult for them to be born naturally, for example, or the wrinkled skin on Shar...