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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
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 57
- Business Notes
- PETS
- Catering to The Fur Trade
- </hdr><body>
- <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."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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