Word: pets
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...everyone's reveling in the good times. "Clubs are sitting in a pet shop window with a 'for sale sign'," laments Rogan Taylor, a Liverpool fan for almost half a century and the director of the Football Industry Group at the University of Liverpool. "[They] are not just businesses but much more important cultural and social assets for individual places ... This isn't the way these grand institutions should be traded." But with Liverpool among the Premier League's foreign-owned teams - Tom Hicks, owner of baseball's Texas Rangers, and George Gillett, owner of the Montreal Canadians hockey franchise...
...bodily dismemberment that spares those pieces from the sentimentality that can infect so much of his art. A work like Two Piece Reclining Figure: Points, from 1969, has the feel that Moore aimed at - but didn't always achieve - of form as primal matter. At Kew you can pet it, but you just might be afraid...
...Figuring out those "things" is the key. The process starts with potential adopters answering a list of questions regarding their expectations of a pet, ranging from "I want my dog to be playful - Not at All, Somewhat, or Very" to "I am comfortable doing some training with my dog to improve manners such as jumping, stealing food, and pulling on the leash - No, Some, or A Lot of Training...
...personalities and expectations all lined up well - the cat purred, the children cooed. Mariah was put on hold, but later that night Francess suffered an extreme allergic reaction, a reminder of the multitude of factors that go into successful pet placement, and it was back to the drawing board...
...Personality matching assessments are only one part of a broader effort shelters nationwide are making to try to ensure more, and more successful, pet adoptions. In line with a trend toward making animal shelters look less like industrial death camps, Boulder's red cinder-block multi-level complex with estate-quality wrought-iron fencing is located in a neighborhood of office parks, and resembles, inside, an upscale daycare center. The gift shop sells hemp dog collars, Outward Hound folding travel bowls, chews that act as doggy dental floss, and Santa-themed holiday pet bandanas. There's a vet clinic...