The Humane Society of the United States has a point to make. “If just one of every five Americans wanting to add a cat or dog to their family in the next year adopted from a shelter, not one...

Brinkley is only 1 1/2 years old. She takes six medications a day. One combats the infection in her bones. Three suppress her pain. One supplements her joints, and the last is an antibiotic that fights...