Tuesday, January 28, 2003

SMELLS LIKE TEEN SCHITZU The

SMELLS LIKE TEEN SCHITZU

The shop has been there for years, with a charming and cheerful mural in their front window of animals cavorting in thermae like the bathers in that famous print of Sutro Baths.  It made sense - the place is a petwashing facility.  On the painting there’s always been a cool grey cat with a sign: “We bathe cats.” Except, someone has recently taped packing paper over the word “cats” and pencilled in “dogs.” So now it’s just another in the endless procession of dogwashing parlors, and they’ve given up - at no small expense to the asthetics of their establishment’s chief form of advertising - given up, I say, on the ever-burgeoning soiled kitty market sector.  Makes me wonder if something bad happened.  Makes me think, “see, that’s what you get when you try to bathe the wrong cat.”