miao!

Pets outnumber people in the United States by about 60 million, and they are becoming increasingly pampered. I was once horrified by a little dog being walked by a college-age girl in Los Angeles that had been shaved, except around its neck, to look like a one-foot-tall lion with a ribbon in its "mane." The poor creature can never regain its dignity. Why have comically tiny short-legged dogs that have to race just to move at a walking pace and are therefore evolutionarily impractical in the wild become such popular pets in recent years?