First off, I'm fine. I was wearing thick clothes and the bite didn't break the skin, although it's a shame because I liked those sweatpants.

I was walking home from the corner store today when I passed this older-middle aged woman talking to another woman with her pitbull standing behind her. I sorta swerved to avoid the pitbull but of course the thing jumped on me and bit my thigh. Thankfully it didn't bite hard, but I did swear pretty loud.

The woman looked at me, CHUCKLED (???), and said "Oh, that's just Sheila" (who names a fucking dog SHEILA?) "You have to ANNOUNCE yourself before you walk by."

ANNOUNCE MYSELF? Like, a few meters before I pass Sheila, I have to go "Watch out, Sheila, I'm coming, don't bite!" ????

This woman also said "Everyone in the neighborhood knows Sheila, you must not have lived here long." I'VE LIVED HERE FOR TWENTY TWO YEARS without the displeasure of meeting Sheila.

Worse still, most of the time when school's not in session I'm walking around with a ten year old boy with autism. I'm a six foot tall dude and it didn't do too much damage to me but imagining what it could do to a ten year old. Especially because he loves animals and will probably not be so naturally afraid of Sheila. Obviously I will not walk with him past that spot now (maybe Sheila lives in that house nearby, I don't know) but I swear to god if that thing ever comes near him.

The moral of this story: if you have a dog that attacks strangers that don't ANNOUNCE themselves, and you can't train that dog, euthanize it. If either of my non-dog pets at home were such a completely untrainable wreck that they posed a risk to the general public, guess what I would do? Euthanize them. Pitbulls are fucking weapons.

That’s the summary of dog shittery going on here. I put the garbage bin out the day of pick-up and bring it in by 4pm… and there’s always at least two little plastic baggies of dog shit in the newly emptied bin when I haul it back off the curb. I’m too small/ grossed out to reach in and do anything about it so the shit baggies stay until next pickup in 2 weeks. This time one of the baggies must’ve opened when the garbage truck tipped the bin, spilling hot liquid dog diarrhea all over the inside of my bin. I live in a city where I am responsible for basic maintenance/ cleanliness of bins. What can anyone even do to prevent this?