The Pentagon has recently been forced to admit wrongdoing and change its tack. No, it’s not another Abu Ghraib, but it means more to some soldiers and family members of the fallen than another wartime prison scandal.

In this case, soldiers’ remains have been subject to cremation at facilities that handle both human and animal incineration.

Families and soldiers say it’s no way to treat the...

I know Dolittler's a pet health blog but occasionally (OK, more than just occasionally) I have to have my say on the farm animal thing.

Partly that’s because in a better world, I believe farm animals might make ideal “pets,” as they once did. No, maybe never like dogs and cats—but in a respectful, reasonably companionable sort of way, as “livestock” (like my goats).

It’s because of my lifelong...