Word: pooch
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...Tuxedo, '60s Hippie and Hell's Angels Biker. Why the new market? Explains Shari Maxwell, owner of the online AnniesCostumes.com whose pet business doubled in the past year: "Now when parents go out to dress the family for trick-or-treating, they feel bad if they leave out the pooch." Usually ranging from $10 to $20, the getups are at least a little cheaper than dressing up Billy as Spider-Man. And if you can't prepare your pet for Halloween, there are other holiday dress-up opportunities. They include Shalom Pup (blue Star of David scarf...
...1960s Hippie, and Hell's Angels Biker. Why the new market? Explains Shari Maxwell, owner of the online AnniesCostumes.com, whose pet business doubled in the last year: "Now when parents go out to dress the family for trick or treat-ting, they feel bad if they leave out the pooch." Not only that, it's the only time of the year you can let your animal foul a neighbor's lawn and claim it's in the spirit of the holiday. Usually ranging from around $10 to $20, the getups are at least a little cheaper than dressing up Billy...
Even if it were possible to create an exact genetic stencil of a lost pooch or kitty, that doesn't mean it's a good idea. Given that more than 5 million unwanted cats are destroyed each year, it's hard to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars to clone a new one. Why not just adopt? What's more, some of the animals cloned so far have been plagued by fatal heart and lung defects in infancy...
...bribing the dean with money he doesn't have. His pregnant wife's quotidian demands are exhausting him. And then there are the dogs?the building is a veritable kennel. Lee loses his head when a white poodle one floor down won't stop yapping. He swipes the pooch, climbs to the roof, wraps his hands round the bitch's neck then dangles it over the side. It's Man and Beast pushed to the edge. Lee relents and locks it in a closet. The building's janitor, however, has a predilection for poodle and returns it to the action...
...Around the corner from Shin's pooch park, Miwa Yanagi's floor-to-ceiling DVD projection places the viewer in a dark, endlessly receding corridor. White-coated female figures appear and vanish through doors off to the sides, whispering and gesturing. We could be in a mental hospital playing out some mysterious psychodrama. In another gallery space, five child-like sculptures are gathered in a circle. With their primary colors and beatific expressions, Yoshitomo Nara's Little Pilgrims (Nightwalkers), 1998, could be the Teletubbies?until one notices they are swaddled in bandages. These enigmatic figures are portraits of "a generation...