Posted AT 4:11 AM EST on 24/07/08
Where children take a back seat to dogged pursuits
TOKYO — Chisai Yasuda and his wife arrange play dates for their four-year-old. They buy her pretty clothes, take her with them to cafés, give her baths and every night she shares their bed.
The Tokyo couple may sound like typical doting parents, but they are childless and put their parental energies instead into their four-year-old miniature schnauzer.
"Meru is not just a dog," Mr. Yasuda says. "She is our baby.
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