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- BUSINESS, Page 57Business NotesPETSCatering to The Fur Trade
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- 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.
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- 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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