In the past month, three different publications have called me to get my take on the theoretically impending recession and how that’s affecting my income. It’s kind of a personal subject but I’ve never been known to be shy on the topic of my own finances.

In this case I’m happy to report that I’ve yet to see any changes in how my clients react to the news that their pets need X, Y or Z...

Yeah, it’s true. Most people have a built-in fear of bugs. For some unlucky souls, however, the fear is far greater than what most of us would consider rational. A significant percentage of the population is afflicted with this problem. Indeed, it’s common enough for the psychiatric community to have come up with a medical term for it: “delusional parasitosis.”

Yesterday’s post on bedbugs...