Pets are now children officially

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don’t realize their pets won’t help them navigate life once they are old and infirm. I am not talking about elder care, this can be bought. I am talking about managing and coordinating it and their financial matters. Keeping an eye out for elderly parents losing their mental faculties.
The more I deal with eldercare the more I see the importance of having a younger advocate.

But that's not guaranteed by spawning.

Pets improve QoL at least until you are decrepit. And by so doing who is to say the people aren't more productive and contribute more to society than otherwise \.

[Anonymous]

They aren't treating their pets as kids. They are treating their pets as props for their own entertainment and I guess to get free candy. That's not what a kid is.

Granted, some people use their kids in the same way sometimes. They dress them up and use them as props in their social media, and some parents will dress up babies and walk them around and get candy with them. But that's not parenting, it's just a side project some parents engage in with their kids.

Until your dog tells you he wants to dress up as Spiderman and then decides the day before halloween that actually, no, he wants to be a volcano and can you please make that costume for him while he is at school, then no, your pet is not a child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last night, as I was standing outside in costume handing out candy, a costumed adult couple came by with a costumed cat and dog in strollers. The adults asked for candy. On behalf of their costumed pets. This couple was not particularly young either. I would say early 30s.

I mean... good? At least they're not breeding. *shrug*

[Anonymous]

Cute, we give candy to adults, why not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last night, as I was standing outside in costume handing out candy, a costumed adult couple came by with a costumed cat and dog in strollers. The adults asked for candy. On behalf of their costumed pets. This couple was not particularly young either. I would say early 30s.

I would have said sorry, the cansy is for teens and children.

(I bet these people regularly vacation at dianeyworld)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many pets are better than many kids.

Not ever

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not healthy for the pet

It is not healthy for the stunted adult children

[Anonymous]

An elderly woman who wasn’t wearing a costume came up to my house and stared at me silently while holding her purse open in front of me. I put a piece of candy in it and she walked away. At least you got to see cute pets in costumes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many pets are better than many kids.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, they are probably one of those childless couples that vacation at Disney Parks as well

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last night, as I was standing outside in costume handing out candy, a costumed adult couple came by with a costumed cat and dog in strollers. The adults asked for candy. On behalf of their costumed pets. This couple was not particularly young either. I would say early 30s.

I would have said sorry, the cansy is for teens and children.

(I bet these people regularly vacation at dianeyworld)

Omg why do you care

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last night, as I was standing outside in costume handing out candy, a costumed adult couple came by with a costumed cat and dog in strollers. The adults asked for candy. On behalf of their costumed pets. This couple was not particularly young either. I would say early 30s.

I would have said sorry, the cansy is for teens and children.

(I bet these people regularly vacation at dianeyworld)

Omg why do you care

An almost middle aged person trick or treating with their poor dog forced into a costume and a stroller does not get rewarded with csndy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ha! I thought I was the only one. Last night as I was handing out candy to trick-or-treaters a middle-aged lady, carrying her dog in a costume came trick-or-treating and took my candy. What?!

Maybe she is lonely and wanted to get out and about. Who cares. She wasn't hurting anyone.

[Anonymous]

I workednwith a woman who brought her big dog in everyday. People hardly talked to her and I felt that she used the dog as a prop for social interactions because she seemed to always hope people would want to interact with her dog.
Her dog would block the walkway of our desk aisles.
One of the guys in our aisle had a very sick older dog and never brought that dog in. When he just sort of hinted that his dog needed to see a vet, she went over to him like she was going to hug him and he was like no, put his arms up Ashton fend her off.
That guy understood the boundaries between his work life and personal life. She did not.
I came to feel very sorry for her because it seemed she was very lonely.
She brought that big dog on her subway commute everyday in NYC. Some colleagues mentioned that she probably didn't crate the dog as the MTA policy states.

[Anonymous]

This is sick. I would have said no to giving them candy.