Wearing a holiday hat and leash, Pistache, a yellow Labrador retriever, rests as she waits for the start of the ASPCA’s Blessing of the Animals Sunday Dec. 13, 2009 at Christ Church in New York. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)

Wearing a holiday hat and leash, Pistache, a yellow Labrador retriever, rests as she waits for the start of the ASPCA’s Blessing of the Animals Sunday Dec. 13, 2009 at Christ Church in New York. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)

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