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Article: Frankenpup.(The City)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2006
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Byline: Daisy Carrington
For would-be patricians of the old school, only a pedigreed, purebred dog would do. Think of The Thin Man's Asta, the wirehaired fox terrier; Jacqueline Susann's poodle, the inspiration for her first book, Every Night, Josephine!; Lady, the cocker spaniel; 101 Dalmations. Silent-movie stars in breakfast coats swishing jauntily down Park Avenue or Sunset Boulevard, led by imperious longhaired Afghan hounds.
But now, in this era when everything from shirts to lattes to perfume must be "customizable"-why not one's pet as well? Toodle-oo, Lhasa apsos! New York and Hollywood have gone wild for designer cross breeds. Mischa Barton, ...