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Like many of the others here, our Alaskan husky Katya came from the shelter already named. It's a Russian form of Katherine, and it suits her—elegant, and a little bit exotic. The only problem is, it naturally shorten to "Kat," and seeing as she shares the house with three felines who all...

It's all depressingly familiar, isn't it? The little, low-rent, one- or two-man operation, out of the way, evil-smelling and with irregular hours of operation... and then something happens... I used to shop at a place like this—we had a pet lizard at the time, and he was the only place within...

Yup, it does actually happen on occasion—and sometimes, the check really is in the mail...

Could be—or it could just be that he feels more comfortable being himself around her. We've got a similar situation with our Alaskan husky Katya. It's like night and day whether my wife and I are walking her, and in part it's because she's still intimidated by me. In any case, I'm glad you...