Aldecosea flushed Pebbles down an airport toilet after her pet was denied passage on a Spirit Airlines flight on 21 November and she could not figure out any other way to get home to south Florida.
In addition to passages about pets and bodybuilding, Musharraf delivered in the book an extended reflection on the nature of command, in which he relied upon quotations from Richard Nixon's neglected tome "Leaders".
Bodie, the golden retriever from California whose death resulted in a hassle over a pet insurance claim, triggering passage of tough state regulations on the pet insurance industry.
The novel chronicled, in luminous prose and fleeting episodes, the dissolution of the Berlands' marriage, the evanescence of family life and of existence itself, and the effect on Viri and Nedra, and on their friends and possessions, their children and pets, of the passage of time.
Senators also use filibusters to block nonpolitical positions, like the administrator of the General Services Administration — to demand passage of a pet project, out of pique or, most troubling, as part of the Republicans' electoral strategy to block anything Mr. Obama wants.
Certain conspiracy-minded folk in Madison believe that Jensen opportunistically engineered the passage of his pet amendment with the confidence that Madison would find a way to fail his patriotic litmus test.
We are introduced to the local eccentric, gaudily dressed, who keeps a pet rooster and bars the passage of militants with her arms outflung; to a beautiful singer, who is arrested mid-song, in compliance with a musical ban; and to a fish seller who protests the absurd ruling that she, like all women, must wear gloves.
As an adult, the death of a childhood pet is a rite of passage, a tangible reminder that our connections to adolescence grow more tenuous with each passing year.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's ruling Socialist Party won a majority in parliamentary elections, but the opposition surpassed the crucial one-third of seats it needed to deny Chavez the supermajority that had brought quick passage of many of his pet projects.
Also winning passage last week was his bill banning pet stores from selling kittens or puppies from "mills" — even though there are no such stores in the county's jurisdiction.
