You can explain daylight savings to humans, but try telling that to a hungry dog. Twice a year, pets across the country experience mass confusion. This seasonal shift recently threw one Golden Retriever, Pearl, into an adorable spiral when her mealtime didn’t match her internal schedule. Her dramatic “fit” over dinner time in a video is now making the internet laugh and sympathize with every pet parent’s annual struggle.
Dog throws a ‘massive fit’ for dinner during daylight savings in video
Pearl, who lives with her owner, Liz Lang, had no idea why dinner was taking longer to arrive than usual. The video shows Pearl pacing around the room, letting out impatient growls and whines while staring directly at her mom. Her frustration is both comical and relatable as she is convinced she’s being starved when, in reality, daylight savings just shifted her routine.
The on-screen text humorously reads, “When your dog doesn’t understand daylight savings.” In the clip, Pearl even lets out a dramatic “yodel” as if she’s voicing her protest in song. What’s more, her paw taps across the wooden floor as she paces anxiously, waiting for her bowl to appear.
According to Lang, Pearl’s dinner time is normally at 5 p.m., but that day, she began throwing what her owner called a “massive fit” by 3:50 p.m. “We fed her at 4:30 tonight and will slowly move back to 5,” Lang explained in the comments, sympathizing with her pup’s confusion.
The video was relatable to plenty of other pet parents, who flooded the comments with stories of their own daylight savings struggles. “Worst day of the year for dog parents,” one commenter joked, while another admitted, “Too cute how can you resist!” Some confessed that they caved under the pressure, with one saying, “We gave in and served at 4:00.”
Another viewer hilariously described it as “the biannual gaslighting of family pets,” referring to the twice-yearly confusion pets face. One user shared that their own dog “came bounding into my room at 5:00 a.m. on Sunday to go outside,” proving Pearl wasn’t alone.
