Horses and seagulls are this year's must-have pets according
to
the February edition of Must Have magazine. "Cats and dogs
have
been ho-hum since the days of ancient Egypt," the must-read
monthly notes. "And even
more recent 'man's best friends' like stotes,
voles and weasels have lost the giddy glimmer of
novelty in recent
years. But horses and seagulls have that 'it' factor that today's pet
owners
demand." Horses, the article acknowledges, have of course
been domesticated for thousands
of years -- but not, they point out,
as pets per se.
"The trend is not for the horse in the stable (for that
would be no trend at all),"
the journal notes, "but for horses kept
on oversize dogbeds in au
courant apartments." So, too, with the
seagull. "We recommend keeping a window
open and giving the seagull
free reign to come and go," the editors write. "Who is the
pet, after all,
and who the master? To proclaim oneself the equal of a shorebird is
to
free oneself from the tyranny of evolution, and the hidebound
conventions of the foodchain."
