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<LEGEND>
This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the
Company's interim financial statements for the three months ended January 31,
2000 and is qualified in its entirety by refernce to such finncial statements.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME> PETPLANET.COM, INC.
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