A SPECIAL REPORT: PETS
COINCIDENCE? The demand for those Animal Shelter dogs may increase even more, if Karen Derrico is right. . . . The editor of Pet Gazette, published in Costa Mesa, thinks that the “basic mutt” will be the status pet of the politically correct ‘90s, when you’ll be expected to demonstrate your “economic and environmental sensitivity.” . . . Purebreds might suggest extravagance, she says, while adopting a mutt reduces animal overpopulation.
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