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	Tuesdays 16:00-16:30


	Intelligent and entertaining conversation about business, money, technology and workplace issues. Presented by Heather Payton, each programme picks up on trends and returns to stories that have moved out of the headlines.


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	HEATHER PAYTON


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	Tuesday 17 August 2004

Yoga for dogs?

Pets Seven and a half million of us have cats, another six milion have dogs, plus the millions of rabbits, hamsters, snakes and even crocodiles. We spend around £3.5 billion a year on them, a sum which is soaring as medical procedures like kidney transplants and hip replacements increasingly becoming available to the family pet. This week Heather Payton will be asking why we get so dewy eyed about our pets and will be meeting a man who pampers the pets of the stars and another who thinks that reptiles are really 'man's best friend'. GUESTS Richard Weight Author and Historian Dan Thomas Head Groomer, Pet Pavilion Catriona Marshall Trading Director - Pets at Home Alastair Gibson Vet and Press Officer , British Small Animal Veterinary Association Malcolm Tarling Association of British Insurers Chris Newman Federation of British Herpetologists

	RELATED LINKS Pet Pavilion Pets at Home British Small Animal Veterinary Association Association of British Insurers Federation of British Herpetologists The BBC is not responsible for the content of external web sites


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