Cue the music. I had a Twilight Zone moment today. While walking into PetSmart, I heard the cashier tell a customer about weekend festivities. The store will welcome self-described pet parents to celebrate Halloween. There will be “treat stations set up throughout the store”, the checker said. Oh, and of course, humans are encouraged to bring their animal(s) dressed in costume. Seriously? What alternate universe have I unexpectedly entered?
Trick or treat will be Sunday, that’s Oct. 26, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Don’t have a costume for fido or frisky? No problem, PetSmart sells them. Treats are free (I presume), assuming your animal is smart enough to find any. The trick is for those beasts unable to sniff out any, I guess.
Continuing the same theme as yesterday, pets aren’t people. Cats and dogs are not children, nor are they meant to be replacements. If you are of parental age, own animals, have no children, and plan to trick or treat with your beasties, please run to the mirror, take a long look, and ask yourself: “What’s wrong with me?”
What next? On Halloween, are we expected to put out candy for the children and dog treats for the mutts? I ask, because in my neighborhood there’s a better than 50-50 chance that someone will do something like that. “He’s my child!”, I hear some folks say about their pets. He is not. You would love a human baby or adolescent more and feel greater satisfication for it.
Hey, just saying.
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