AR-News: (CA) The Fetching Dog Economy

[Mary Finelli]

THE FETCHING DOG ECONOMY
National Post, March 3, 2004
http://tinyurl.com/32bjv or
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=dc9b63f4-b6d1-4573-b78b-e71d9e5232c2


North America's urban population is growing in leaps and bounds, thanks to a 
proliferation of pets. With household animals rivalling humans in number, 
the continent's pet industry, an exemplary command-and-control economy that 
operates almost entirely without subsidy, has grown into a 
$44-billion-a-year mammoth. Urbanites should be especially grateful that our 
cities are going to the dogs -- nothing more civilizes us.

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