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People believe the rapture is coming today and hope they can take their dogs

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Happy New Year, bitches! Or alternatively, salutations on this day of the rapture. Allow me to explain: today is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It falls on a different date in the Gregorian calendar each year because the Gregorian calendar is solar, while the Jewish one is lunisolar. (And the Chinese is lunar, rounding out the trifecta of New Years I observed as a Jewish kid growing up in San Francisco. Shanah Tovah Gong Hei Lang Syne.) But today is also special because Jesus visited a South African pastor in a dream to give him the heads-up that the rapture will be taking place today and tomorrow. Pastor Joshua Mhlakela dutifully spread the good word that “The rapture is upon us, whether you are ready or not,” and social media took the baton from there by spawning the hashtag #RaptureTok. So as faithful TikTokers contemplate their (potential) upcoming ascent to heaven, they have a fervent request for Jesus: please let us take our dogs!

If you’re unfamiliar, the rapture in Christianity is the belief that good Christ-loving folks of Earth — both living and dead — will ascend to heaven with Jesus Christ.

People have taken this belief and run with it on social media, which has started the trend of #RaptureTok.

In the hundreds of videos with that tag on TikTok, you’ll discover everything from rapture tips to people wondering if they can take their dogs with them if they’re the chosen ones.

One woman’s video with over 200,000 views is making light of it all by referencing another jokester’s videos on the topic. “He’s a riot, he’s making this whole journey so fun.”

She went on to explain that in one of his videos, he mentions how there’s an angel assigned to each person when they get raptured. “He’s like, ‘I wonder if our pets get raptured too.’ He goes, ‘Could you imagine the angel that’s assigned the one little Chihuahua? They’re going up 1,000 miles per hour,’” she said, giggling.

…“I ask God all the time to please take my dogs when we’re raptured,” someone wrote in the comment section of that video.

“I have prayed for my fur babies to be raptured with me,” agreed someone else.

“They replied, ‘Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved — you and your household.’ My household includes my fur babies,” a hopeful commenter wrote, quoting scripture.

While there are plenty of serious videos on the topic, of course, there are many skeptics making light of the situation, dogs aside.

One video posted under #RaptureTok showed two people hysterically laughing with overlay text that read: “I am so petty I am going to lay out a couple of outfits in my driveway on sept 24th so when my neighbor walks his dog he will think me and my dog made it to heaven for the rapture and they didn’t.”

[From NY Post]

I love how all these people are worried about whether their fur babies can go with them, as if it wasn’t the reverse that is the case: that our pets are assured entrance while we humans ought to be praying we get to tag along with them! Don’t these TikTokers know the holy proverb, All dogs go to heaven?? And of course there’s the argument that heaven is wherever your dog is. Honestly, though, and despite this not being my religion, I’m confident in saying that these 48 hours are not the rapture. Not after learning that the tragic half of the rapture decrees that “those left behind will endure seven years of suffering, war and devastation led by the Antichrist.” Is that not proof positive the event already took place, and we’re the left behinds?

Whether you’re reading this edition of Celebitchy from heaven, hell, or whatever it is that constitutes our current plane of existence, I say Merry September 23, ya filthy animals!

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British reality star Vicky Pattison lets her dogs lick the inside of her mouth

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I love dogs, as if you didn’t already know from the eleventy–nine articles I’ve written about them. They’re filled to the brim with personality, love, and an unerring ability to take up more than half the seat or bed you’re sharing, despite being a fraction of your size. I’d venture so far as to say that I like dogs more than any of the dogs I’ve lived with ever felt about their own species. My Girl was always supremely indifferent to any potential friend who showed interest, while My Guy hops into warrior mode, growling and going on his hind legs to paw at the air with his front legs, in a display that invokes more laughter than fear. Although I give my canine companions a lot of leeway, I like to think that I’m not too far gone in my love. Thankfully, British reality star Vicky Pattison has validated my point, by exhibiting behavior I would never ever do. She just appeared on a dog-centric YouTube show in which she let her dogs lick the inside of her mouth. Bad girl, Vicky!

A reality star left viewers horrified when she let a dog lick inside her mouth.

Vicky Pattison shared a joint Instagram post with Butternut Box, a pet food company, on Aug. 22. In a video, part of the brand’s new YouTube series, Walkies, Pattison, 37, could be seen letting a dog get a little too close for comfort.

Sitting outdoors, Pattison was joined by her dogs, Max and Milo, and another woman, when one of the canines approached the star and started licking the inside of her mouth.

“I’m so sorry,” Pattison — who is best known for her appearances in Geordie Shore, Ex on the Beach and Judge Geordie — said.

As the other woman admitted, “Thing is, I do that too,” Pattison cheered with excitement and added, “You know, it makes them happy.” She then leaned in for another kiss from the pup.

In the comments section of the post, many viewers were shocked by Pattison’s actions. “What. Did. I. Just. See ????,” one watcher wrote, as another Instagram user commented, “Can I unsee this?”

“I love my dogs like my kids but nooooooo I couldn’t ????,” added one more viewer, while another couldn’t help but make light of the moment, writing, “The dogs get better kisses than me ????????.”

Others couldn’t help but look at the situation from a health perspective. One user said in a comment, “I love dogs, but they can carry dangerous bacteria in their mouths.” Another added, “My dogs eat each other’s poop ????it’s a no from me ????.”

After seeing the backlash she was receiving, Pattison — who is also a radio presenter and an author — reacted.

“This did not go down well ????,” she teased in the comments section of the post, between more critiques being sent her way.

[From People]

Yeah, I’m with all the commenters who expressed a desire to “unsee” that image (which unfortunately is seared into my brain). It’s a step too far, for me. Granted, there are some things I indulge in with my dog of questionable sanitary health, namely letting My Guy (and My Girl before him) sleep in bed with me. Some of my animal-loving friends still wince at that, and I get it, but… snuggles! And yes, I let my dog kiss me — but on skin! My mouth is always closed, and snouts get rerouted when they try to invade the nostrils. I do that because I am the one in charge! That’s what gets me whenever a person says of their pooch, “it makes him happy.” So do any number of unsavory activities, that’s why they’re dependent on us to provide boundaries. My mother used to say that another dog in the family always greeted her with French kisses, to which I’d remind her, each and every time, “It’s only a French kiss if you open your mouth, too.” I suppose I’m a bit of a hypocrite in thinking that skin licks are that much more hygienic than open mouth ones, but that’s the level of cognitive dissonance that feels logical to me!

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Pedro Pascal wishes he could have given his dog the advantages he has now

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Pedro Pascal covers the July/August issue of Vanity Fair to promote the roughly two dozen projects he’s a part of (and yet none of them feature Nicole Kidman; given how much they work, it’s a statistical inevitability at this point that they’ll star opposite each other soon, right?). While the photoshoot captures him bearing arms and legs — though never at the same time, that would truly be the last of us — in the interview, Pedro fully bears his heart. He shares a lot about being raised by his mother, and the colossal impact of losing her to suicide shortly before his 25th birthday. And he talks up another formidable female presence: his rescue dog Gretta, a foster fail Pedro took in six months after his mother’s passing. She hopped into bed with him and it was all over. Pedro named her after Patricia Clarkson’s character in the 1998 movie High Art, which they were listening to that fateful night through the wall from a neighboring apartment. A few highlights from this wonderful profile:

He survived the lean years thanks to his rescue pup: However depressing his life, his pit-bull-mix rescue, Gretta, would meet him excitedly at the door. Gretta’s silhouette was intimidating enough that Pascal could walk her at 3 a.m. to deposit his crumpled wad of tips into a Chase ATM without fear. “She saved my life, that dog, because she gave me someone to go home to,” Pascal says, searching through the Gretta album on his phone to show me pictures.

His mother dropped him off at the movies when she couldn’t get a babysitter: He remembers being seven and in heaven, able to squeeze in two and a half showings of Poltergeist before his mom returned for him. At home he’d reenact scenes of being sucked into the closet or slide across the kitchen floor. [Sister Javiera] Balmaceda tells me, “When our parents got cable, the HBO song would come on and Pedro would run around the house yelling, ‘A movie is coming! A movie is coming!’”

Gretta passed just as his career took off: “I think about how poor I was when I had Gretta,” Pascal says. “I think about when I had double shifts and I couldn’t find anybody to let her out and we were living in this sh-thole apartment in Red Hook, and I think about the bougie life she would be leading with me now as opposed to then and I grieve, I really do.” He chokes back a sob, then laughs at himself for being once more overcome.

On calling J.K. Rowling a ‘heinous loser’: “The one thing that I would say I agonized over a little bit was just, ‘Am I helping? Am I f–king helping?’ It’s a situation that deserves the utmost elegance so that something can actually happen, and people will actually be protected. Listen, I want to protect the people I love. But it goes beyond that. Bullies make me f–king sick.”

What he misses about his mother: Her beauty. Her smell. How funny she was, and how funny she found farts. “She couldn’t get past a fart of any kind without it absolutely destabilizing her into hysterics,” says Pascal. “She thought they were the most brilliant, hilarious, wonderful thing in the world.” She was also “very deep-feeling, very complex, very, very out of reach in a way,” he adds.

[From Vanity Fair]

Yes, I had to include Pedro talking about how his mother fell to pieces over farts! Partly out of deference to my own mother, who made sure that the first thing I knew about Benjamin Franklin was that he wrote an essay titled “Fart Proudly.” And then simply out of desperation, because once again, this man is out to kill us with his magnanimity, is he not?! How is he in our timeline? We do not deserve him! Standing up to bullies, lamenting that Gretta passed (of old age, thank dog) before he had the success/funds to pamper her the way she deserved… I’m not sobbing, YOU ARE. This one hits real close for me right now, as my family had to say goodbye to our own great lady over the weekend. She was my aunt’s dog and, like Pedro, saw my aunt through a significant chapter of her life (and mine, too). Our pups give us everything they have, and they truly don’t care if you’re a celeb or not. Though we all know how uber busy he is, I do hope Pedro finds his way towards welcoming another rescue. Maybe Glen Powell and Brisket can give him some tips on being a working daddy-dog duo.

Lastly, I don’t think I’ll ever get the image out of my head of little kid Pedro running around the house declaring, “A movie is coming! A movie is coming!”

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Bonus Pedro Pascal in 2016 (airport photo in gallery is from 2014):


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Dakota Johnson adopted a puppy named Tokyo from the Santa Barbara pound

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As we’ve been covering, Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin have broken up after eight years together, and it’s final this time. The prevailing theory is that Dakota’s own team got the word out so that she wouldn’t be pestered with Chris questions as she promotes her latest movie, The Materialists. Now Dakota has revealed some other news, and this one is guaranteed to keep questions on all other topics at bay: she adopted a new dog!! The fur puppy is named Tokyo, and Dakota rescued her from the Santa Barbara pound. Tokyo got her first taste of having a celeb as her person, when Mama Dakota brought Tokyo to the recording/taping of Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast. The episode came out this week, and oh my woof, Tokyo is frickin’ adorable.

Dakota Johnson has caught a new animal in her web.

Less than a week after her breakup with Chris Martin was revealed, the Materialists star shared that she adopted a new puppy named Tokyo from the Santa Barbara Humane Society in California.

“We rescued her on Saturday from the Santa Barbara pound,” Dakota told host Amy Poehler during the June 10 episode of the Good Hang podcast. “I didn’t plan on it.”

The 35-year-old went on to share that she was still coping with the death of her previous dog Zeppelin, who died in December at age 17, when she stumbled upon the brown-and-white haired pup.

“I thought, ‘It’s gonna be a while,’” Dakota recalled. “But then I saw her, and she’s an angel.”

And Tokyo is already warming up to her new home. In fact, Dakota—who brought her new BFF to the podcast appearance—noted that the doggo’s playfulness inside the recording studio was a new development.

“She’s a performer,” Dakota joked after Tokyo began sniffing her microphone. “Honestly, she has come alive on camera. She normally hides in the back of her crate. She’s really timid. And now she’s like, ‘Here I am.’”

Addressing her pup directly, she quipped, “You’re an actress just like your mom!”

Six days prior to Tokyo’s big debut, multiple outlets reported that Dakota and Chris, 48, had called it quits after nearly eight years together.

And while the Madame Web actress has yet to publicly address the split, she has shared what her dating non-negotiable is going forward.

As she told Craig Melvin on the June 9 episode of Today, “Just like, not an a–hole.”

Another important trait her future partner should probably have? Loving dogs. After all, Dakota has previously detailed the crucial role her late dog played in her life.

“We’ve basically grown up together,” Dakota said of Zeppelin during a June 2024 interview with TalkHouse. “He is extremely smart and sweet and perfect and soulful. He’s always been a very healing dog for people, so I made him a certified emotional support animal. Which is just the sweetest thing ever.”

[From E! News]

Aw, I hear you girl about feeling like you need a long time to recover from the loss of a faithful pup. I was a sobbing mess last summer when I had to say goodbye to My Girl. Though she wasn’t a particularly loud lady, the apartment seemed unbearably quiet without her. I’ve truly come to believe that one of the best ways to honor the companion you’ve lost, is to welcome a new one in need. All that love needs a place to go! But it’s a very delicate, personal journey, and you feel out what’s right for you. I ended up only lasting two months before My Guy found me, and I’m thrilled for Dakota that she said yes to Tokyo, even if she hadn’t been planning on adopting just yet. I wonder when the podcast was recorded, though, because Dakota starts off by saying “We rescued her on Saturday,” and then minutes later when the conversation has moved on to something else, Dakota makes an offhand comment, “Chris said it’d be a great movie idea.” Hmmmm.

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Amber, a five-year-old retriever, returned home after a 100 mile journey

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Meet Amber, a five-year-old retriever who’s had a ruff start to life, having resided in a Qatari shelter after being picked up as a street puppy. But earlier this year Amber moved to the UK through KS Angels Rescue, a small charity run by husband and wife Sam Collins and Kelly Parker, “trying to make a difference one dog at a time.” Amber was quickly placed in a loving foster home… where she spent one night before bolting on April 25, despite the 8-foot-high fence. What followed was 63 sightings by anxious humans of Amber in the wild as they tried to safely corral her back. The floof trekked across a national park until she hit the coast, then swam a mile to an island. After four days of island living, Amber began a swim back to shore, when the crew of a ferry saw her struggling and pulled her aboard. All in all, her journey covered 100 miles over 36 days. What an adventure!

She covered a lot of terrain: Amber walked in a south-westerly direction across the forest to the coast and ended up on Sandbanks in Poole, where she then doggy-paddled for a mile across Poole Harbour to reach Brownsea Island. A resident on the sparsely populated island put out food every night after spotting the stray. After four days she attempted to swim back to the mainland and was seen by the crew of a passing ferry who thought she was a seal. Crew mate Ethan Grant said: “I then realised it was a dog and thought ‘what’s that doing out there?’ You could see she was struggling so we thought we need to get her out otherwise she wouldn’t have made it.”

Amber’s ‘wild mindset’ made the recovery a challenge: Parker said the dog had entered a “wild mindset” until Saturday’s rescue. “We had a lot of well-meaning people and they really did try to help,” she said. “Unfortunately with a dog that is scared and has entered that wild mindset, with any people, she would have run.” Every time the wanderer was spotted, she had covered another five or six miles (8km/9.6km), said Parker. “It’s been frustrating, we’ve felt like we were always behind her. It’s definitely been an experience I would rather not have again — but a happy ending.”

Needing more time to bond: Parker said she hoped adventurous Amber would have a “calmer, more stable spirit” in future. Collins said Amber had not had enough time to form bonds, and had bolted every time someone tried to help. “She was absolutely all over the place, she kept returning to where she went missing from and was moving in bigger and bigger circles,” he said.

She did one mile of swimming! “But then we had no sightings for a week before I got a call that she was on a boat. We know she entered the water at Sandbanks as we were sent a photo of her there. It is about a mile of swimming, which is just incredible. “The boat crew spotted her struggling with the tide, she wasn’t going to make the swim back so they turned the boat around. She hooked her paws on to the ladder and one of the lads jumped into the water and helped her out.”

[From The Guardian]

Ferrymen for the win! Though I hope Amber gave them at least a little sass for mistaking her for a seal, lol. As for Amber’s wandering tail, I can’t completely blame her; poor girl winds up in a new, cold country without any idea what’s going on! The good news is, after her little excursion, Amber was cleared for good health by a vet, save for being a tad underweight. So before she gets placed in a new home, she’s on a strict diet of being given more meals (hey, that’d be the way to keep me homeward bound as well). And further good news: that resident of Brownsea Island who put food out for Amber has reached out to KS Angels about adopting the intrepid explorer. Meanwhile, for those keeping count at home, Amber marks the third runaway hound we’ve covered this year, joining an international crew of Scrim, the terrier of New Orleans (on the lam 10 months over two escapes), and miniature dachshund Valerie, who ran amok for a whopping 529 days on Australia’s Kangaroo Island. At what point do we start taking the wave of canines fleeing as a damning commentary on humanity?

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Doug the Pug received his honorary degree in Furensic Science

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Hollywood and fame can be difficult enough for adults to handle, making it that much more complicated when a talent peaks in their youth. So it was with Doug the Pug, the OG animal influencer who could be seen everywhere in 2017 as a wide-eyed five-year-old. Parties, magazine covers, music videos — you name it, Doug was there. Then whippersnappers like Tika the Iggy took over, rubbing her prestige Vogue gigs in Doug’s compressed little nose, plus the inevitable takeover of nepo puppies, and suddenly Doug is an old has been. But don’t call this pug a flash in the pan! In the intervening years, this disgruntled-looking pup has kept up an impressive online following and continued to assist his persons in their pursuits, like when his mom, Leslie Mosier, worked with the University of New Haven on social media strategy. Ever inquisitive, Doug plunked himself right in the center of academia, and his dogged persistence has paid off. Class of 2025, I now present to you: Doug the Pug, recipient of an honorary degree in Furensic Science.

On May 17, just a few days before his 13th birthday, the famous pug with over 15 million social media followers received an honorary degree from the University of New Haven in Connecticut.

“I was shocked and very excited! It never gets old to be part of something new with Doug. We are grateful for every moment and every fun new adventure,” the canine’s owner, Leslie Mosier, tells PEOPLE of her pup’s recent achievement.

Doug donned a pug-sized cap and gown to attend the University of New Haven’s graduation to receive his honorary degree in “Furensic Science.”

“Doug was awarded an honorary degree in ‘Furensic Science’ as a playful nod to one of the university’s most renowned programs, Forensic Science, which was founded by the legendary Dr. Henry C. Lee, who gave the commencement address,” Mosier explains.

According to the dog mom, Doug’s relationship with the school started thanks to her. Mosier works with the university on social media strategy, and recently decided to bring her superstar pug to the school’s campus for a visit.

During the visit, Mosier says Doug “instantly fell in love” with the school, where he met students and Spot, the Boston Dynamics robot.

“Students were thrilled and began asking for more Doug. The university, always in tune with its student body, saw this as the perfect chance to create a fun and memorable moment,” Mosier says about Doug’s relationship with the University of New Haven deepened.

Looking for a “truly unique” way to bring Doug back to the campus, the school decided to have Doug attend graduation and receive his honorary degree.

Mosier says that Doug was greeted with support and cheers on graduation day.

“He was excited to see all of his friends and get the attention. He absolutely adores getting recognized and a ton of butt scratches,” she adds.

The day was also special to Mosier, who works to spread happiness with Doug. … “I hope Doug can serve as a reminder that anything is possible and no dream is too big, even if it sounds a little silly or far-fetched at first,” Mosier says.

Doug plans to frame his degree and hang it in his office so he can appreciate the achievement each day. For the rest of the summer, Doug plans to enjoy lazy days in his Nashville backyard with his little sister Dory.

[From People]

“He absolutely adores getting recognized and a ton of butt scratches.” Yeah, I had a few classmates who felt similarly about graduation day. What a terrific comeback tail! Proof pawsitive that it’s never too late to reinvent yourself, and that you’re never too old to learn something new! Many salutations to Doug, who now joins a distinguished list of decorated animals. (No really, CB found this fantabulous Wikipedia list! Though I’m an avowed dog lover, I think my favorite entry was Myrtle the Chicken, who the British 1st Airborne Division awarded a parachutist badge for her services in World War II.) Thankfully, Doug’s parents did what they do so well, and put together not one but two videos marking the celebratory ceremony. And it must be noted, their song selections were brilliant: one video was set to Vitamin C’s “Graduation (Friends Forever),” while the other played Green Day’s “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).” Nailed it on nostalgia.

Not to minimize a fine intellectual achievement and make it all about the romance, but, um… What’s going on now between Doug and Spot, the Boston Dynamics robot? Because People Mag had a snap of those two walking the school halls together, and Doug’s face was the very definition of the look of love. Woof.

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Prince William & Kate’s cocker spaniel Orla welcomed a litter of four puppies

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Before Prince William and Kate welcomed Prince George in 2013, they already had a fur-baby, a cocker spaniel named Lupo. Lupo sadly died too young in 2020, and Will and Kate immediately got another cocker spaniel, Orla. William even claimed that Orla sleeps in the same bed with him and Kate. Both Lupo and Orla were “bred” by Kate’s brother James Middleton, who is all about dogs and he apparently gives away/sells puppies as a side gig. Well, apparently, the Wales family never got Orla spayed! So Orla had puppies recently. Four puppies.

The Prince and Princess of Wales have reportedly welcomed four puppies to their family – after their dog Orla gave birth to quadruplets. Cocker spaniel Orla joined the Wales family in 2020 as a gift from Kate’s brother James Middleton, who is well known for breeding dogs.

The five-year-old pup is now reported to have given birth to four puppies – and the royal children – George, 11, Charlotte, ten, and seven-year-old Louis – are said to be in love.

A source told The Sun: ‘We always thought the patter of tiny feet in the Wales’s household had ended, so the sound of tiny paws will have to do.’

They added that Orla and her puppies are all ‘doing well’. The names of the four new additions have yet to be revealed, and it is not known if the Wales family plan to keep any of the weeks-old pups. The identity of the father is also unknown, according to reports. The insider said: ‘Everyone loves a new royal baby news and so new royal puppies run very close. Everyone is very excited, not least the three children, who adore Orla, and Lupo before.’

[From The Daily Mail]

I’m appalled by the way they just breezed over the implications for the royal bloodline. They don’t know who fathered the puppies? Orla might have gotten knocked up by some titleless mutt with no family name?? What if the father cannot support his four puppies? How will Orla pay for them? Where’s Orla’s Netflix contract?? This is the biggest royal scandal in a decade! Honestly though, I can’t believe they never got Orla spayed. There are so many dogs out there looking for a good home. I’ll admit that I do not care for James Middleton running this off-the-books breeding program. I don’t doubt that James treats his dogs well, but again… just spay and neuter your animals.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images, Kensington Palace’s social media.