'Happiness is a warm puppy': Animal laughs and joys for a happy brain to give your spooky midweek slump a silly paw pick-me-up (October 28, 2026)

Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor

Oct 28, 2026 9:00 AM EDT

Did you celebrate Día de las Mascotas this year? That is Mexican tradition related to Día de los Muertos, but dedicated to passed pets. You create an "ofrenda" for them, and they come to visit you. Many pet parents who follow this tradition say they even see their living pets go to the ofrenda and play with the spirit of their fur sibling. It's beautiful, whether you celebrate it or not.

I love this tradition because I love any time I get to celebrate my passed furbabies. I always carry them in my heart, and as any pet parent understands, I always have a little shrine to them so I can still say hi to them every single day. However, having a holiday specifically for them also feels right. When you lose your soul pet, you lose a part of yourself, and you are never the same again. You now carry a pain with you that is always in the back of your mind and weighing your heart down a little bit more. However, this pain is also a reminder of the love. And wow, what a love to have forever with you! The connection between a human and their beloved pet is something else. It is worth the pain you have to hold after they pass. So let's celebrate our furbabies the way they would have wanted us to: with joy and laughter. Any pet parent knows your pets absolutely LOVED to make you laugh.

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We love spooky season, and we love seeing all the pets enjoying it with their hoomans. The matching costumes are top-tier this year! We saw one dog as the “this is fine” meme dog! That had me howling and LOLing. We love to celebrate our pets here and beyond. The best part about having a pet is all the fun you get to have with them. They do not let anything get in their way when it comes to creating core memories with their beloved hoomans. You just coming home after work is enough to give them the zoomies! So something like, getting dressed up and going trick-or-treating together is the most magical time for them, and you can feel it! Their joy is palpable and when you have a pet, you are connected heart to heart, so their joy is your joy. So let's get silly this spooky season and have fun with our pets now, back then, and any future pets planning to fill our hearts in the future!
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Please tell me you dressed up with your pet this year! And please share a picture with us. Like, actually, we live for these kinds of things here at Animal Comedy. We used to host a Halloween Pet Portrait every year! Dang, that was fun. Budget cuts, though, ya know? So now we have to live through the photos other pet parents post and the memes of festive, spooky pets past! You should be proud of your furbaby and their costume. I know, I am, and I haven't even seen them yet! But a happy dog bonding with their hooman is enough to make our hearts warm and fuzzy. That's what we live for! Well, that, and then funny animal memes that we find online all the time. Happy Howlaween, pet parents!
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