Having a pet is wonderful. It makes a big difference when you’re living alone in an apartment that feels even larger due to the loneliness. The real benefit? Not being by yourself.
It also helps to ease a different kind of loneliness—being the only trick-or-treater roaming the neighborhood, hurrying from house to house in search of enough candy to fuel countless sugar highs. But if your pet’s joining you, they’ll need a costume too.