Pets have the remarkable ability to turn even the most ordinary moments into jokes. From dogs to rabbits, anyone with a pet can picture at least one funny or absurd moment. Small moments transcend human relationships and truly make pets best friends.
They say food is everyone’s love language. This is especially true for Isabella Valdesolo ’28’s aussiedoodle, Penny. Penny’s obsession with food encompassed all of Valdesolo’s funny stories. Valdesolo reminisced, “One time at my brother’s 11th birthday party, a bunch of his friends had pizza in the basement, and they went upstairs so there were many boxes of pizza full.” However, after “they got back, there was no more pizza.” Not only that, but Penny faced the consequences when he “then threw up the entire night.” Even so, Valdesolo elaborated, sharing that Penny never learned his lesson. “Just last week, I got home, and my entire kitchen trash can was emptied because we had left it open and Penny had eaten all of it.” At this point, Valdesolo has accepted that Penny’s curiosity and stomach are both bottomless.
Overindulgence isn’t unique to Valdesolo’s story. Maren Farazi ‘26 shared a similar pet story with her chocolate labrador retriever, Grizzly. Similar to Valdesolo’s Penny, Grizzly consistently eats trash. “One time, he ate the skin off a baseball that was lying in our front yard,” Farazi shared, between laughs. This initially sparked concern, “we thought he was going to die,” Farazi stated. However, it ended up just adding humor to the already ridiculous scenario when “instead, all he did was he just kind of threw up…different pieces of the baseball for several days, but he was fine.” Though dramatic, the whole experience lives on as one of Farazi’s favorite memories of Grizzly’s questionable decision-making.
Eating everything isn’t just a characteristic of dogs, though. Kelsey Webster ‘28’s rabbits, Cho and Ginny, also have a habit of eating stuff they shouldn’t. “They will eat anything,” remarked Webster. Webster shared that on several nights, “I’ve woken up to a bunny on my bed and eating my hair.” These nighttime shenanigans, though annoying, are a regular yet humorous routine in the Webster household. “We have a cage around our [rabbit] hutch that they are not meant to be able to get out of, which is about four feet tall,” Webster shared. Yet nothing seems to stop Webster’s adventurous furry friends. “On several occasions, we have woken up at around 3 a.m. to them jumping over it and knocking the entire fence over.” Despite the chaos, Webster admits that Cho and Ginny’s late-night trips have become a strangely endearing part of their bond, one that brings a little humor to mind every time she thinks of them.
The joy and humour of pets are universal. All it takes is an early wake-up call, a skinned baseball, or an empty pizza box to create a lifelong memory.
