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PART OF THE FAMILY BUSINESS At Wavelengths Surf Shop, 6-year-old Duke Alfred White I, an imposing chocolate Labrador, is the shop’s mascot. “When I first came down to Bakersfield, we were going to close the store. I stayed in a hotel and I had to bring him with me to work,” recalled Noel White, Wavelengths manager and Duke’s owner. That was three years ago. “The customers love him,” he said. “He comes with me every day. I don’t have children, so he is like my kid.” Duke has been poked, prodded and climbed on by customer’s children, he said. “We are big dog people here and do have customers who bring in their pets, mostly smaller dogs.” At Paper Moon, Nikki, a 65-pound German wirehaired pointer, rules the roost. “We are definitely pet-friendly, and we even have a sign out front letting customers know that we are an animalfriendly retailer,” said owner Bridget O’Neill-Short, who also has dog dishes out in front for the four-legged visitors. “Sure, there are spots all over the carpet, but do I care?” she said laughing. When clothier Tracy Walker-Kiser received Chloe, one of two grown Labradors who keep her company most days at
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April 2013
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