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...puppies from such operations are sent to pet stores across the nation, where unsuspecting pet lovers pay a premium for their pedigree. A recent Humane Society of the United States investigation found that Petland stores continue to source dogs from puppy mills...
...made, for instance, by recognizing the potential of fish as furniture. Fish have become a perfect pet for the 1990s, where no one's around much but everyone wants his house to be all the homier anyway. So aquarium sales are through the roof. That is good news at Petland, a Chillicothe-based company whose success is nurtured as much by the weaknesses of America's two-income economy as by its strengths. Thirty years ago, Ed Kunzelman was a Chillicothe schoolteacher who started a pet shop on Paint Street with a $1,600 loan from the teachers' credit union...
...before they got their first assignment: to find out whether the economic boom that sent the stock market to a new high last week was filtering down to the grass roots. In Chillicothe, Ohio, Chicago bureau chief James Graff found Jim Whitman, an executive vice president of the Petland retail chain, in high spirits; customers were buying his tropical fish, Dalmatians and flying squirrels in record numbers. In Aurora, W.Va., however, the mood was less sweet. Dale Pase, a park ranger, told staff writer Adam Cohen that 85% of his neighbors could be classified as "working poor...
...prices up to $1,200 apiece. "Everywhere I go now, it's 'I want a Spuds dog,' " reports Evelin Jackson, executive secretary of the Bull Terrier Club of America. Inquiries are up 75% at Jerry's Perfect Pet Shop in Dallas. Customers in St. Louis are so bullish that Petland had to put the dogs on back order...
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