Ask Ann Cannon: Readers take their turn as advice gurus

Sometimes as an advice columnist, you receive e-mails offering a different take on a given situation. Here are a few recent examples.On burying pets in the backyardWe are the unhappy owners of a house where the previous owners had buried a pet in the backyard. They had double-bagged it in black garbage bags, and I can tell you that this is a terrible idea. After 18 years (we don’t know when it was buried — only how long we’ve owned the house), it had not decomposed fully and wa