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...enough of muddy paw prints on the couch or a mooching pooch prowling under the dining table? Here's a new, high-tech solution from Innotek, based in Garrett, Ind.: pet-proofing Zones, discs the size of smoke detectors that can keep pets out of rooms or away from areas 12 ft. in diameter. Available at innotek.net ($100 for a starter kit), Zones can easily be installed in a doorway or under your favorite lounge chair. As with outdoor invisible fences, dogs wear collars that react when the pets get too close to a Zone. Innotek says the signal...
...biggest supplier, the end of quotas "will have serious consequences for the European industry," says Bill Lakin, director-general of European trade body Euratex. Brussels could yet trigger safeguards should Chinese imports explode. You can be sure it won't need 10 years to do so. The Schroders' Pet Project With German unemployment approaching 11%, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder understands the need to protect jobs. But he could hardly have expected the howls that greeted the news that his fourth wife Doris Schröder-Köpf had helped German drugstore chain Rossmann develop a range...
...Some pet cases have reaped surprisingly large awards. Marc Bluestone of Sherman Oaks, Calif., won a $39,000 jury award last February after Shane, his mixed-breed Labrador retriever, valued by the court at $10, died just days after coming home from a two-month stay in a pet clinic. Although the suit took five years, cost more than $300,000 in legal fees and is on appeal, Bluestone says it was all worth it: "I can't get my baby back, but I did get justice...
...friend Sherlock Holmes, although Chabon never names him. Chabon's Holmes is long past his Baker Street prime: at 89, he has become a frail, eccentric, beekeeping retiree. Mystery comes looking for the aging detective in the form of a mute boy, 9, and his pet parrot (the symmetry is neat but not too: a boy who can't speak and a bird that can). Before long, the parrot is missing, a man is dead, and Holmes is back in the game...
...important too. Certainly, no one in an asthmatic's household should smoke. Allergies to mites can be controlled with a mattress cover. Sensitivity to air pollution can be treated with filters. But it's important to pinpoint exactly what problem a child has. Getting rid of the family pet may be a solution, unless it turns out the child wasn't allergic to the animal in the first place...