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Article: Newsday, Melville, N.Y., Animal House column.
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- Newsday (Melville, NY)
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- August 21, 2006
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Byline: Denise Flaim
Aug. 21--It's too easy to blame Paris Hilton.
After all, teeny-tiny dogs were hot millennia ago, when "The Simple Life" was indeed just that.
Consider, for example, the pear-shaped Pekingese and the monk-guarding Lhasa apso, which both predate Christianity. In the intervening centuries, humans continued to breed dogs for small size and big personality, from Renaissance royalty, which rarely posed for a portrait without a toy spaniel in hand, to those kooky Victorians, whose fondness for pugs reaffirmed the very modern notion of "so ugly, it's cute."
At the kickoff to this century, toy dogs are as popular as ever. ...