ODDS AND ENDS: Dog eats passport and other offbeat offerings

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Well, that’s one way to object to a couple’s union.

A couple from Boston, Mass., was left stressed out about their upcoming nuptials in Italy after they were left without a travel document. Two weeks before Donato Frattaroli and Magda Mazri tie the not, the groom and bride-to-be had a wrench thrown into their plans after their dog ate the Frattaroli’s passport.

“It was not good, like, it was very stressful,” said Mazri, in an interview with NBC 10 Boston.

Their wedding plans seemingly were on track on Aug. 17 after the couple headed to City Hall to get a marriage license and a letter of intent. Mazri and Frattaroli went out to dinner but upon returning home they found their almost two-year-old golden retriever, Chickie, having a snack of his own in the form of Frattaroli’s passport.

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Chickie managed to rip out the first four pages of the travel document along with several pages in the back, including one with a stamp from Mexico, where the couple got engaged years ago.

The couple had no options to try and get a new passport as appointments in their area were fully booked. With time running out, they turned to lawmakers to see if things could be salvaged to no avail.

Mazri is remaining positive, hopeful they will be able to achieve their dream wedding in Italy, come hell or high water.

This Kit Kat certainly didn’t need a break.

A 13-year-old cat named Kit Kat from Missouri has skipped his way into the record books after breaking a Guinness World Record by jumping nine times in one minute via skipping rope. According to UPI, Kit Kat and his owner, Trisha Seifried, worked tirelessly together to skip over the rope nine times to break the record for most skips by a cat in one minute.

Seifried told Guinness World Records that by six months old, the cat was “jumping rope in front of huge crowds of people at the farm, helping to bust myths that cats can’t be trained.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-aRDuEHQg8c

Seifried is in charge of Kit Kat’s Hollywood resume as she runs an animal talent agency. Her cat has made appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and a social media campaign for Friskies cat food.

The cat’s owner said jumping rope is definitely Kit Kat’s “most impressive trick” noting jumping is kept to a minimum because of his age.

“I would say his favorite trick now is high five, he loves high-fiving all his fans at events,” said Seifried.

The most important thing to composing the perfect picture is exposure.

Unfortunately, the owners of a sunflower patch in England are tired of people exposing themselves to snap pictures among the beautiful flowers.

Sam Wilson and Nette Petley, siblings and owners of the Stoke Fruit Farm on Hayling Island have put up signs on their property, sternly warning visitors not to disrobe after six occurrences of nude photoshoots in their sunflower patch since it opened to the public in July, according to a CNN report.

On one particular day last month, there were three naked shoots in one day.

“Reminder to all we are a family area and please keep your clothes on in the sunflowers! We are having an increase of reports of naked photography taking place and this must not happen during our public sessions please,” Stoke Fruit Farm noted in a Facebook post.

Don’t you love the convenience of waking up and taking only a few steps for that morning pee?

For Airbnb renter David Holtz that was literal after discovering that the accommodations weren’t what he bargained for.

David Holtz, an assistant professor from the University of California, Berkeley, rented an Airbnb when he was vacationing in London, England. Upon arrival, he found that the room he was staying in was actually a large bathroom with a bed in it.

The bed was directly beside the toilet. Talk about convenience.

tfw you arrive at your @airbnb and realize that the whole space is essentially just a large-ish bathroom that the host put a bed into pic.twitter.com/ImlxVWtAXF

“That feeling when you arrive at your Airbnb and realize that the whole space is essentially just a large-ish bathroom that the host put a bed into,” Holtz wrote in a post on the Elon Musk-owned X.

Holtz noted he complained to Airbnb, which noted it will look into the matter. He said on X that he’s spoken to customer support many times but they had no “interest in helping resolve the issue.”

In a follow-up post, Holtz joked about his situation: “After sleeping for 2 nights one foot away from a toilet, I’m ready to sleep for 26 nights in the jungles of Fiji.”

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