McCarran's new Terminal 3: Easy by design Cabbie, concierge, tour guide, host — as Las Vegans, we play these roles often for friends and relatives freshly arrived at McCarran. And it all begins with that first ritual: the airport pickup.

A springtime riot — for you and Fido June is great pretty much everywhere, but it’s especially wonderful about 200 miles west of Las Vegas in the surprisingly little-visited Kern Plateau. Verdant meadows, blooming wildflowers and bubbling brooks full of trout — it’s a springtime riot.

Four-legged freedom When Jennifer Arnold founded Canine Assistants in Milton, Ga. 20 years ago, she did so with people like Kelly McMahon in mind.

Imagine patting your trusty canine companion on the head — and then sending him into a situation from which he may not return. “We had a subject who was in the attic with a fully automatic MAC-10, and he told everybody that he was going to kill himself, but he was going to kill the cops first,” says Officer Duwayne Layton, a 16-year member of the Las Vegas Metro Police K9 unit, recalling just such an incident.

The Container Store: Put a lid on it already Calling all home organizers and compartment-seekers — your new favorite store opened last month at Town Square. And with more than 10,000 products, The Container Store will make sure you never have to ask, “Where should this go?” again.

The Las Vegas Veterinary Specialty Center: A new leash on life Behind the wall of stippled glass, Neka the pit bull is taking it like a champ, patient under the thrum of the MRI machine. Hold steady, girl: If anyone’s going to find out whether it’s a spinal tumor causing your pain, it’ll be the docs at the Las Vegas Veterinary Specialty Center.

Went over to my brother’s house recently to say hi and drink his beer and, whoa, there’s this dog there — a happy floundering mass of jaunty angles and puppy skittishness, warping the entire familial energy field with waves of unconditional trust and love. He’s this sharp-snouted, doe-eyed monster of undiluted cute; looks like an albino bear freshly stepped out of a children’s book.

Long before big cats were the lifestyle prop of the exuberantly mulleted duo Siegfried & Roy, a tiger was a part of actress Marilyn Maxwell’s Vegas nightclub act. Or it was supposed to be.

The pet wellness biz is booming. Are doggie treadmills and yoga more bark than bite? A girl (and her dog) investigate Mark my words: The day is coming when “dog trainer” will mean “personal trainer for a dog,” as in: “I’ll be there at 8:30, right after I drop off Fifi at the gym for her trainer appointment.

Adagio Big horse, big heart Dream Therapies, a Henderson center for occupational, physical and speech therapy, employing activities and exercises done on horseback, called hippotherapy. Loves to help: Kids with disorders such as ADHD, autism, Down Syndrome and other developmental delays, under the guidance of Karen Siran-Loughery, a licensed occupational therapist who’s trained in hippotherapy.