Some folks just don’t understand how scary these experiences with their unleashed dogs can be for other park goers and other furry companions!

So I’d like this to serve as a gentle but FIRM reminder— Im sure your dog is sweet as pie, mine isn’t and we don’t want to be approached!

A public space is not your backyard. The entitlement of some of these owners is so baffling and quite frightening.

Please keep us safe in these beautiful public parks! Please keep you and your dog safe by leashing up! (If your dog’s recall is 100, y’all are amazing and this isn’t about you)

I wish dog owners would realise if a dog is on a lead there is a reason. Stop letting your dogs run over to a dog on a lead and saying hes friendly!! It is so stressful for a reactive dog owner!

Our reactive dogs still deserve to go for walks and enjoy sniffing and seeing the world.

Reactive dog owners I highly recommend practice 0-2 hours of exercise/play/obedience, Why things like obedience training are important because it helps tire them out mentally instead of you trying to run them 3 hours a day, If you have no idea what these exercises are, these are a good place to start:  https://braintrianing4dogs.com/MentalExercises.

Love your babies, because Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen. Reactive dog owners, let's show each other some kindness & support!

I gave birth to my son November 17th and applied for medical leave to recover from my c section first. The application status states in review now and I received a message stating "You applied for medical leave either for prenatal care or birth recovery. If you now need to take family leave to bond with your new child, you must submit a separate application" does this mean I need to apply for family leave now before my medical application is even approved? I was under the impression medical would be approved first, then I'd need to submit my family leave application. Can't get a hold of anyone on the phone, any insight is appreciated!

Having a big headache with the passport office. Below is the same version of my birth certificate (not mine in the pic) that I ordered directly from the vital records office. I've sent this in twice now to the passport office, and both times they have said it is not valid for verifying my citizenship to get my passport.

I'm pulling my hair out here because I've confirmed with WA State Vital Records that this is the valid certified birth certificate. I also know for a fact that my brothers have sent in the exact same version of their birth certificates and received their passports with no issues...

Looking for a recommended spa or beauty treatment center/massage therapy place in Mason County. Alderbrook is hella overpriced.

Thanks!

PNW People - Herpes Serology Study

People living in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho - this one is for you!

The University of Washington Virology Research Clinic is enrolling participants for their HSV Serology Bank Study.

This is a super simple way to get involved AND help advance diagnostics testing for all of us! Better diagnostics can lead to accurate results, which can lead to make it a reportable disease, which can lead to better statistics and so on and so forth.

Involvement

• 2 In Person Clinic Visits with blood tests
• 30 days of oral and genital swabbing

Incentives

• FREE Western Blot test (this usually costs a couple hundred dollars out of pocket)
• Your viral shedding rates at the end of the study (great to know for preventative measures and dating)
• Up to $175.00 for participating
• Helping to make things better for our community!

The BEST news is you don't have to have herpes to enroll! They are looking for positive/negative people, oral/genital!

If we get as many people as possible to they will have a ton of data to work with to make even more precise diagnostics tools!

If you're willing to commit to the in person visits and willing to travel, this could be for anyone!

Heading out from the tri-cities WA area and wondering what route to take to levanworth. Google maps gives two routes. One going through yakima up to liberty. The other being I90 - US2/US97.

I've driven up to yakima more times than Wenatchee.

Car 92 buick front wheel drive with snow tires and chains.

Has anyone been able to get IV Glucose approved for in home usage? If so how? Hoping to get them reunited with their children for the holidays!

For context, a family member has a malignant insulinoma and is currently hospitalized. They’re unable to be discharged due to needing constant IV dextrose at a fairly high rate. Last year they spent over 100 days in the hospital only because of the need for the IV.

Thank you all for your help and time.

Hi all! My partner and I are heading over from the UK for three weeks in late June/early July. We'll be spending a few nights in Seattle and then hitting the road to explore the area. We'll be hoping to do plenty of hiking, as well as sampling the local food and drink. Any tips or advice along the route? Delicacies, off-the-beaten-track gems, unmissable hikes (we're quite happy doing 10 miles plus in a day)? I'm a coffee snob, and I've heard Seattle has a great coffee scene!

Hoping somebody might be able to help me out here. Our vehicle was recently in a no fault wreck. We took it to the auto body shop and they determined it was totaled out, which I wasn't expecting. We weren't informed until we went to the licensing office that we were supposed to take the plates off the vehicle. I haven't bought or sold a vehicle in a long time so I wasn't aware of this new law. The vehicle has already been taken away from the body shop.

So whats the next step here? Just hope we don't get a bunch of tickets in the mail?

I'm heading through Bellingham, through Seattle, through Olympia and on to Aberdeen next week. Anyone know a good place to buy rabbit meat along this route?

Edit: Wow, I had no idea there would be so many places. I'll be contacting some of these to make sure they'll be in stock (we'll be under a time constraint). Thanks so much!

My USPS morning email shows I finally have a package in transit from Olympia.

DOL cashed the check for my custom plates in early March. Already have the tabs and updated registration since mid-March.

It’s been 9 months. I’m like a kid waiting for Christmas morning to see if I’m getting a Nintendo or socks.

Milk, eggs, local honey, maybe smoked salmon, any other spots and shops that you liked in the past. Bakeries?

Hi, I’ve been living in Washington with a relative since January and I’m going to get a license renewal tomorrow. I’m only now realizing that if you moved from out of state they want you to switch to a Washington license. Am I gonna get in trouble cuz I’ve been driving here for these past 11 months with no trouble, but I also haven’t pulled over so I wouldn’t have know if it was a problem. Should I lie and say I moved in September and my relatives have been driving me places? Any advice would be helpful haha

Edit: hiiii, y’all were right they didn’t care, the guy asked how long I’d been here and I said a couple months and I was gonna say relatives carted me around but he didn’t follow up so I think he was just being polite, thank you so much for the help it really helped soothe my anxiety going in!

Someone stole my little old brown Toyota truck. It was in the driveway in Seattle last night around 8pm and gone this morning when I checked around 10am.

If you see it respond to this post or dm me. I've filed the police report and posted this in several other subs. So if you see it give me a shout!

But honesty, I've already let it go. I'm sure I'll never see it again. So this is more of a memorial post for my little work horse. Had the thing almost 20yrs. It had somewhere around 250k miles on it and I was fixing it up and planning on running it for another 750k. RIP Rosinante you were the best little truck anyone could have ever asked for.

These are the only photos I have of it. Took them as I was polishing it up a few weeks ago. Was surprised at how much of the color came back.

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I bought a car private party, and assumed my bank was going to do the registration and everything (because they asked if I wanted them to and I said yes) I don’t know if that’s something they can actually do, and obviously should have asked more questions or looked it up at the time - but honestly I forgot about it and have been driving it for a while now. Turns out that never happened because the person I bought it from got a ticket in the mail. So I was going to fix that and get new plates but when looking it up, apparently I can get a huge fine and a misdemeanor? I’m kinda freaking out and was wondering if anyone had advice or if I’m just kinda fucked.

I'm aware of the new law prohibiting Washington state employers from basing hiring decisions off of cannabis use and I can't imagine why this scenario would warrant an exception. As I mentioned, it's a clerical job at a hospital. I actually won't be interacting with patients at all. I will essentially be sitting/standing at a desk and using a computer and phone, that's it. Still, I'm panicking that they will withdraw my offer. Am I freaking out for no reason? Has anyone been through a similar situation? The law went into affect January 2024.