=====Stories: The Pet Lady=====
//The dog twitched and blinked, looking around ... "Jenny?"//

===Summary===

A Bronx Community College student is out walking her dog one day in a New York park when she runs across a woman with a nearly irresistible sales pitch: Turn your pets into theris! Can a collection of mystical stones, essential oils, and a diet of generic kibble really uplift animals into intelligent companions?

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==Author==
BaxilDragon

==Release date==
Nov. 16, 2003

==Word Count==
2,900

==Author Comments==
I offered the contest behind this story on a lark, and
was initially worried about whether I'd be able to make
anything of the results. "The Pet Lady" earned a
BaMoTTuSto Reader's Choice award, though, so I must
have done something right.
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==Major Characters==
~- Jenny and Laika

==Dates of Story Events==
~- A "warm spring afternoon," probably April or May 1997
~~- **Era:** EraFromCausesToCrusades

==Locations==
~- New York City, USA

==Significant Cameos and References==
~- Bronx Community College, Crotona Park and the Cross-Bronx Expressway all exist on Earth as well.


==Trivia==
~- Baxil wrote this story based on the results of a [[http://baxil.livejournal.com/51402.html contest]] in which elements were submitted by readers, Mad Libs-style, and five were chosen randomly. Within a day, this sprang out of "generic brand dog food, transcendence, and an instructor while the power suddenly goes out in the Bronx." [[http://baxil.livejournal.com/51746.html (1)]]

===Read it at===

http://www.tomorrowlands.org/nov2003b.html#11162003

===Feedback===

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