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<text id=91TT1992>
<title>
Sep. 09, 1991: Business Notes:Pets
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Sep. 09, 1991 Power Vacuum
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 57
Business Notes
PETS
Catering to The Fur Trade
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<p> Some socioeconomic groups are impervious to recession. Dogs,
for example. Cats too--or at least rich ones. In Beverly
Hills, Critter Caterers offers pampered pets colognes, tuxedoes
and furs, bone-shaped canine birthday cakes that begin at $50,
high-tech flea collars using ultrasonic waves, even a $1,600
Kitty Condo, a three-story luxury cat house.
</p>
<p> Two years ago, proprietor Tracy Parsons, 28, left Los
Angeles' dog-eat-dog garment industry to start a home-delivery
bakery for puppies. Then she invested $5,000 of her savings,
persuaded a bank to back her and set up shop on ritzy Beverly
Drive. Parsons has added a mail-order business supplying pet
owners as distant as New York, and hopes eventually to franchise
the business. "But," says she, "I don't want to expand too fast,
because service is the most important thing to me."
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</body></article>
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