There are specialists for what feels like everything.
For example, those who compose magnificent shade gardens based on historical models and can, so to speak, “drill down” all the Latin names of the plants on the spur of the moment;
Forensic scientists familiar with the development of fly maggots on corpses and narrowing down the time of death;
Comparatists who have knowledge of regional dialects in East Pakistan;
Lawyers who are familiar with the bar maintenance in the change model in patchwork families in detail.
And there are retail merchants who delight four-legged friends in the booming pet market.
And their bipeds.
Ursula Kals
Editor in business, responsible for "Youth writes".
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Recently in a branch of a large chain: the salesman demonstrates the folding mechanism of the "day spa bed" with virtuosity like the vacuum cleaner salesman used to show his legendary kobold.
Lounge furniture at a bargain price because it's a seasonal item.
But next summer is definitely coming - with stylish patio furniture for Labrador "Artur"!
The dog owner waves it away, he has mothballed his balcony furniture.
The seller stalks a cat owner who is examining an idiosyncratic shelf opposite the dog furniture.
Warning, now it's getting shady!
There are four shallow bowls with litter, fine-grained, coarse-grained, white to dark gray.
A fist-sized lump in the middle.
The salesperson hands the customer a plastic scoop: “What consistency do you like?
Do you like the gray litter better, the clumped one is excellent?” Wait a minute, is he really explaining how to deal with cat poop?
Litter box, litter box, doesn't just make the cat happy?
Of course, the clogging of the excrement with water is demonstrated, the seller hastens to say.
The woman dismisses the fact that she has an outdoor cat that does her business outside.
Specialist literature is available at the checkout, including five (!) volumes with baking recipes, from “banana stars” to “tartar treats”.
It's about dog biscuits.
Not correct.
About dog biscuits.
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