This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. On a Friday morning in July three years ago, I took Bailey, our Weimaraner, for a checkup with her oncologist. Her legs were getting weaker, and ...

"I have adopted a one-year-old Tibetan Terrier female without records, except that the last owner says she's had no rabies shot, and also that in the recent past, she once had her on anti-giardia meds ...