‘Dog-Owning Has Had Its Day’
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Congratulations to McCarthy for telling it like it is about Man’s Best Parasite, the dog, without which (along with tobacco and rock ‘n’ roll) our world would be a far more pleasurable planet. I ask only that he exclude from the proposed canine extinction Snoopy and the ubiquitous Shaggy Dog.
MARVIN H. LEAF
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