Pets
How to price a pet honestly before you bring one home
The adoption fee is the number everyone remembers and the least useful one they will ever be told. It is a rounding error against what follows, and…
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Mind & Body
Hydration, minus the marketing
Drinking water is close to the simplest thing a person can do, and it now has an entire aisle. Powders, effervescent tablets, bottles with hourly markings printed…
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A lawn routine built on blade height, sharpness and the right season
The lawn is usually the most heavily managed part of a yard and the least healthy. It gets fed, treated, watered and cut more often than anything…
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Taking a dog or cat on a long road trip
The bad version of this trip is decided long before the trip. The carrier lives in a closet and comes out twice a year, both times to…
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How to leave your pet with someone else and sleep at night
There are two versions of this. In one, the flights were booked in February and by March somebody had met the cat, done a trial weekend, and…
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