It’s the first Editors’ Blog of the semester and that means a new editorial team. Rather than profile each of them with the classic HCAU Campus Cutie article, this month highlights what is nearest and dearest to our editors’ hearts: their dogs! Below are descriptions of these furry friends’ stand-out features, greatests tricks, heartfelt adoption stories and more cuteness overload.
Name: Cooper
Owner: Peyton Bigora
Hometown: Long Island, New York but was rescued from Tennessee.
Sex: Male
Age: Probably 3 years old but because he’s a rescue, we can’t be certain.
Weight/Height: 44 pounds and medium height
Fur Color: Brown and White
Eye Color: Brown
Cutest Feature: The little pink spot on his snout.
Coolest Trick: He attacks the car’s windshield wipers when they’re on.
Adoption Story: Only a few days after I had moved back to D.C. for my sophomore year, my mom texted me the above picture of this cute baby boy saying she adopted him. I had to wait over a month before I was able to travel back to Long Island to meet him!
Name: Ziggy
Owner: Carly Elkins
Hometown: Moorestown, New Jersey
Sex: Male
Age: 7 years
Weight: 70 lb
Fur color: Gold
Eye color: Brown
Cutest feature: Lack of intelligence.
Coolest trick: Occasionally brings back the tennis ball.
Funny story: As a puppy, he used to drag the “Welcome” matt from the front door to his bed and cuddle with it.
Favorite Toy: Red stuffed hedgehog.
Name: Maya
Breed: Newfoundland
Owner: Katie’s parents
Hometown: Chester County, PA
Sex: Female
Age: 2 years
Weight/Height: Approx. 90 lbs, medium height
Fur Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Cutest Feature: When she was a puppy she looks like a stuffed teddy bear.
Coolest Trick: She can retrieve ice cubes from the automatic ice dispenser on the fridge.
Favorite Toy: Whatever her two brothers, Ozzie and Falko, are playing with. My parent’s dogs get jealous of one another easily.
Name: Brutus (right), Caesar (left) (haha funny right)
Owner: Hannah Andress
Hometown: Marietta, Georgia
Sex: Both males
Age: Brutus: 3 years old; Caesar: We think he’s 5 but we aren’t 100% sure
Weight/Height: They are both around 85-90 pounds but Brutus is really short (lol).
Fur Color: Caesar: Brown/white; Brutus: black/white
Eye Color: Caesar: brown; Brutus: green
Cutest Feature: They sleep together and play outside all the time.
Coolest Trick: They are very good at catching goldfish in the air.
Funny Story: They are both think the lawnmower is going to eat them so they go crazy whenever someone is cutting the grass!
Adoption Story: Brutus was a few months old when we adopted him from a rescue agency! Caesar’s adoption story is a little wild… my dad was leaving town on business and my mom got an alert that Caesar was going to be put down if nobody adopted him. So as soon as my dad left we went to the humane society to bring him home! My mom told my dad we were just ‘fostering him’ but there was no way we were going to give our sweet pupper up!
Names: Louie (right); Sandy (left)
Breed: Golden Retriever
Owner: Nicole’s family
Hometown: Chester County, Pennsylvania
Sex: Louie: male; Sandy: female
Age: Louie: 5; Sandy: 3
Weight/Height: Louie: 85 lbs, big but stout; Sandy: 75 lbs, medium height.
Fur Color: Golden
Eye Color: Brown
Cutest Feature: Louie’s square face and Sandy’s puppy eyes.
Coolest Trick: Louie’s pretty good at swimming; Sandy will retrieve anything and everything.
Favorite Toy: Nothing gets Louie more hype than a plain green tennis ball and Sandy loves any shoe she can find.
Funny Story: One time I left a loaf of banana bread wrapped in cling film on the middle of a pretty tall kitchen counter; when I came home, Louie had eaten the entire loaf, plastic covering and all.