Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Essex, England, and has since owned a Dalmatian, a fox terrier, three bassets, one Great Pyrenees and a pride of kittens. Modern Living Reporter-Researcher Audrey Ball shares an unlikely menagerie with her daughter Tracy, 8: their tabby, Leslie, five delicious goldfish and two tantalizing white mice. Other pet owners include Managing Editor Henry Grunwald, whose wire-haired terrier Bravo resembles Asta in the Thin Man movies of the '30s; Assistant Managing Editor Richard Seamon, who is putting his nine-week-old Labrador through basic training; and Zookeeper-Essayist Stefan Kanfer, who rooms with two mice, five turtles...
...young beagle on our cover is the seventh animal to achieve that distinction without being accompanied by its owner. The earlier covers sported race horses and canine celebrities. This week's dog is a relative nobody who symbolizes America's exploding pet population, the subject of our cover story. For those involved, the story has been a labor of love. For, like millions of Americans, many TIME staffers own creatures ranging from dogs and cats to exotic breeds of tropical fish and reptiles...
...less fortunate of this ill-starred family were King George I who was assassinated in 1913, King Constantino I who was deposed in 1917 for his failure to support the Allies during World War I, and his son, Alexander, who died in 1920 after being bitten by his pet monkey...
Chemical-impregnated collars are supposed to keep dogs and cats free of fleas for up to three months. Flea-plagued people apparently believe the collars will do the same for them. In both California and New York, pet store owners report a booming business in the collars and suspect that some are ending up on the necks, ankles or wrists of pet owners rather than on their pets. Says James Umberfield, manager of San Francisco's House of Pets: "One woman came in here with big red spots all over her legs and said she was buying a collar...
Psittacosis, or parrot fever, produces chills, fever, nausea and occasional pulmonary disorders; if untreated, 20% of its victims will die. Not surprisingly, it most often strikes people who keep or handle parrots or other pet birds. But psittacosis may not be the only ailment that bird owners can acquire from their feathered friends. A pair of English researchers report in The Lancet that the same organism that causes parrot fever may also bring on a form of heart dis ease. Doctors have long been looking for causes other than rheumatic fever for disease of the heart valves; it is only...