Word: poopers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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James Serpell puts the U.S. gross national pet product at $7.5 billion a year. The figure covers the cost of food and veterinary services for 475 million cats, dogs, birds, rodents, reptiles and aquarium fish. Presumably there are extras such as doggy spas, rhinestone collars, pooper scoopers and what professionals in the domestic-animal world might call alternate-species entombment. The costs are proportionately staggering in the households of the European Community, home to an estimated 91 million nonhuman inhabitants, excluding unwelcome vermin...
...council ordered the city manager to draft a pooper-scooper ordinance for consideration at a future public hearing...
...Under a "pooper-scooper" code, dog owners would be required to remove their dogs' feces from sidewalks and other public places...
...define the cat." Chicago Pet Shop Owner Donna Dunlop adds: "It's not just children and the elderly who have cats, it's young professionals in their 30s who are getting them." The inconvenience of owning a dog in a city, where apartment sizes have shrunk and pooper-scooper laws make the litter pan look like a less burdensome alternative, may also explain the recent upsurge in catomania. Says New York's A.S.P.C.A. executive director, John Kullberg, about the guard dog-cat controversy: "If you buy a cat, you can always get an extra lock...
...watching Ethel Is an Elephant. She is indeed, and she shares a loft with a young Manhattan photographer, who has to fight both the city and his landlord to keep her there. Once he-or the show's writer-finds out about New York's new antilitter pooper-scooper law, he may not fight so hard. But perhaps he is thinking of asking the garbagemen at ABC and NBC to come and help...