DEFENSIVE DRIVING CLASS
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The Battalion
Monday, November 28,1988
Nov. 30 (6-10 p.m.), Dec. 1 (6-10 p.m.)
Dec. 7, Dec. 8 (6-10 p.m.)
Animal love spawns agency profits
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ELLENWOOD, Ga. (AP) — All
her life, Jama Hedgecoth has loved
animals. But she never quite ex
pected it to come to this: She sells
housebroken, exotic pigs and runs
an animal talent agency that rep
resents a variety of four-legged stars.
On a 25-acre animal farm south of
Atlanta, with the help of her hus
band, Charlie, and four children,
Mrs. Hedgecoth tends to some 300
creatures: dogs, cats, raccoons,
foxes, deer, goats, chickens, turkeys,
ducks, geese, an ostrich, a miniature
horse, one 300-pound hog and a
pack of pint-size pigs.
She sells the petite porkers
through Designer Pigs, one of her
business ventures. As for the rest of
the menagerie, some are stars rep
resented by her other venture, The
Animal Agency. Others are family
pets.
“When I was a kid, we traveled all
over the world, because my father is
an evangelist, and we could never
have animals like this,” Mrs. Hedge
coth said. “When I got married 17
years ago, I told my husband, ‘My
dream is to live on a farm and have
every animal that’s feasible to own.’”
Five years ago, the Hedgecoths
got their farm, along with dogs and
cats.
In 1987, a friend asked her where
he might find 15 cats for a cat litter
commercial. What the producers
feared would be eight hours in cat
hell turned into a 30-minute lark —
she has a knack for animal training
— and a business was born.
Mrs. Hedgecoth and her partner,
Bryan Hudson, began contacting ad
vertising agencies and anybody else
who might need a well-behaved ani
mal now and then.
In less than two years, The Ani
mal Agency has worked on about
100 jobs, half of them still-photo
modeling sessions and the other half
TV commercials, mostly for agencies
in Atlanta.
Her Benji-look-alike dog. Amber,
starred in a Honda Accord spot.
Roy, a mammoth tom turkey,
starred in a ham ad.
For a Reebok spot, she brought
along Hickory the goat, Scarlett the
black miniature pig and 81-year-old
Griffin farmer James Roy Goggans
and his sneaker-wearing con
whose stage name is Bessie.
The Animal Agency alsosui
animal actors for a TV motjl
cently filmed in Georgia, “Dyii).
Love.” Mrs. Hedgecoth's
and father got bit parts.
If she dc >esn’t have a paid
animal, she’ll find it —andtrait
“If you call us and sayyoimt,
white goose that will vvalkom;,
for a child, I’ll tell you, ‘Yougt
three days,”’ she said.
Glients are charged $100 an
and up. “What they payforisE
and me, our know-how in
work with the animals,” she said
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OUTDOOR SOCCER ENTRY FEE: $25.00 per team PLAY BEGINS: Wednesday, January 18,15i
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an ID individuals may purchase a large bucket of balls for $4.00 and a small bucket for $2.00. CluMptions in be
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The trip is limited to 13 participants. Sign-up in the IM-Rec Sports Office, 159 Read. For more
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FOOTNOTES
■ The Womens Soccer Team will have a tournament Saturday, December 3. Time is to be annou
■ Monday, November 28, Soccer Official's Training at 6:00 PM in 164 Read.
■ Tuesday, December 6, Residence Hall R/ep, Meeting 6:00 PM, MaMa's Pizza, RSVP by Decent
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