Word: veterinarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some experts find in this obsession with felines a shift in the American psyche. Says Robert Perper, 48, a New York veterinarian: "There's a lot of macho in dog persons. Dogs are bigger, they're a display. People like to give them hearty slaps and decorate them with collars. Three years ago, about 5% of my men patients were cat owners. Now it's 25%. The stigma is gone. They've learned a man can own a cat and still be a man." Peter Borchelt, a behavioralist at Manhattan's Animal Medical Center, wryly...
Nowadays Americans lavish little art but elaborate care on their cats. It may have been a technological breakthrough that made cat tending less onerous and fueled all this attention. Explains one close observer of the animal universe, Boston Veterinarian Jean Holzworth: "When you talk about convenience, the advent of cat litter is comparable to the invention of the electric light bulb." Litter boxes are now big-selling staples in pet stores. They cost from $2.50 to $34.95. Some of them are kick-proof and odor-proof. The latest behavior-modification device is Kitty Whiz, a potty trainer that purportedly teaches...
Both phenomenal show cats and ordinary mousers can now receive thoroughly researched and specialized medical care. Today's veterinarian handles that task with considerable sophistication and science. A decade ago most small-animal vets devoted only 20% of their practices to felines. So little research had been done in cat diseases that dog cures were often simply transferred to cats, sometimes to no effect. Currently, 50% of America's small-animal practice is devoted to cats. The Cornell University Feline Research Center closely examines cat problems such as heart disease, unknown a decade ago, and drug-resistant respiratory...
...made his way to San Pedro, Calif. There DEA agents caught him, despite a suitcase full of fake IDs and passports, because of concern for his dog: he had given a veterinarian his home phone number and the real name of his St. Bernard, Sasha. Special Agent Richard Mangan, a resourceful DEA investigator, recognized the name...
...create anything that is going to be painful or harmful to the animal," said Dr. Richard Rodger, assistant clinical veterinarian at the center. "We're here to help animals as well as to aid research...