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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
Dog owners trying to place their pooches with a day care service are encountering screening processes that resemble those for child admissions at elite preschools, according to a May Wall Street Journal report. Urban Tails, in Houston, requires a four-page “dog personality profile” and an evaluative “peer session” with other dogs. Dog Day Afternoons Country Day Prep in Boston requires two letters of reference, a seven-page application, and an “interview.” After her “Ghillie” was turned down by one service, a woman acknowledged to the reporter that maybe her dog is “not gifted.”
Methamphetamine Blues: Dentists interviewed for a June New York Times story said they are increasingly seeing patients who are addicted to the caustic methamphetamine chemicals and who demonstrate “meth mouth” in which healthy teeth turn grayish-brown and (according to the Times) “begin to fall out, and take on a peculiar texture less like that of hard enamel and more like that of a piece of ripened fruit.”
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