Pet Peeves: Or Whatever Happened to Doctor Rawff?

Plimpton, George

| 2000

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Dr. Rawff is missing. But the pet-problem advice columnist and veterinarian has left behind an office in disarray - broken pencils, an overturned bottle of wine, and a series of crumpled-up letters in which increasingly bizarre problems are recounted. Among the problematic pets described is a dog whom his master suspects is intent on being human (acting suspiciously like Marcel Proust), a pet alligator who seems to be starting her own alligator farm in her owner's basement, a forty-five-pound cat, and a small grayish fish that has grown and grown and is now too big for a swimming pool. It seems, from clues left behind in his office, that Dr. Rawff may have run off with the owner of Meg, the boa constrictor who swallowed the pig. Or maybe he left to rescue the woman who was towed to a strange exotic island by her pet dolphins. Whatever the case may be, local authorities are baffled by the...

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