For my wife and me, our pets are like our children. We have two horses, a German Shepherd, and up until two days ago, a small, grey gerbil. We had been seeing signs over the past week that her time was probably close -- lack of appetite, sleeping in odd positions,...

Driving carriages on a downtown Saturday night, you see a lot of different things. Here are just a few from this past weekend: Two youngsters stepping from a minivan as the carriage passes, the young boy nudging his sister and declaring loudly, "That one's a...