If your existing hobbies aren’t helping you, try expanding and doing something new. Go take some evening courses or art workshops, for example. Or join a book club. Or learn how to dye yarn and crochet/knit. Volunteer for local food pantries or non-profits.

Overweight Richard is too many letters for a license plate.

I mean, it’s pretty light and fluffy with no real wind out there- if I had a leaf blower I’d be using that! But I’m going out shortly to snowblow because if I don’t I’ll regret it later (somehow).

I don’t doubt that pittie would snatch food off the owner(s) plates too if it had the chance. Not because it’s a pit necessarily (I’ve met some amazing ones) but because the owners refuse to be responsible. I don’t disagree with what the agent did; I wish more people looked at leashes as protecting their dog and not iMpEdiNg tHeiR frEeDoM.

I’m sure I’m going to get downvoted, but I anecdotally see a lot of dog attacks come down to a few things, breed aside:

A. Unfamiliar dogs/people
B. Entitled or careless owners
C. Lack of respect for/infantilizing dogs
D. Lack of training/management/boundaries
E. Indiscriminate dog breeding/unknown lineage
F. Suppression or lack of follow through on non-human attacks (or dog is so small it doesn’t cause the same level of damage but is still a menace)

This situation should have never happened, regardless of breed because one should not leave kids alone/unsupervised with unfamiliar dogs! Heck, even if one knows the dog, one should think very carefully about leaving children unattended. Dogs are dogs no matter how cute and fuzzy they are. The best way to make sure a situation doesn’t happen is to avoid setting up an environment where it can happen.

And as much as it is sad, I do think there are some dogs that just aren’t “right” and they do need to be put down. Fair to the dog? No. But odds are that dog shouldn’t have been made in the first place. But I think if the things I listed were addressed, we’d have much fewer attacks in general.

Right?! Great costumes cost way more than a few pieces of candy.

This is the bonus to having kids or volunteering to with relatives and their kids trick or treating as an additional wrangler. My brother enjoyed going out with my kiddo and I and would get all dressed up. He was offered candy at a lot of places for his costume; he declined as we were in a popular area and he didn't want to take from the kids.