Amy Sedaris appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers last week. The great thing about Amy on these shows is she’s friends with all the hosts from their comedy days and their rapport is so casual and familiar. It feels like you’re eavesdropping on their conversation at a party. While on Late Night, Amy spoke more about her rabbit, Tina, whom she adores. She spoke again about stealing carrot tops for Tina, only since she’s been caught, the stores save any discarded tops for Amy, so she’s no longer stealing them. Amy also said she just found out that Tina is actually a boy. CB said she thinks she’s heard this before but it’s the first I am hearing of it. So Tina is a boy and, we also learned, likes to get high. But only to help his anxiety over getting his toenails clipped.

You have to sometimes get Tina’s nails clipped? We have a very small dog that looks like a rabbit and she does not like that, getting the nails clipped.

What works for me, is if you blow a little marijuana in the air. Seriously, the vet’ll say, ‘I’m coming over,’ I say, ‘well, let me get Tina high.’ I don’t blow it in his face, but you can with male rabbits, but I don’t blow it in his face. I just kind of blow it around and then Tina just completely relaxes.

I have no idea if Amy is being funny here or if she seriously blows some smoke around the room to relax Tina. I’m sure if she does do that, she’s asked her vet whether or not it’s okay because Amy absolutely adores Tina and isn’t going to hurt him willfully. Like Timothy Olyphant alluded to in his story about his dog eating his edibles, pets and pot are more common than we thought, even if it’s accidental ingestion. And I kind of get wanting to make your fur baby comfortable at any cost. I’ve mentioned that my dogs were rescued from a traumatic experience. Most of the time they are happy-go-lucky doggos. But a few things do trigger them and the fear with which they react breaks my heart. One of my dogs had a bad reaction to his nails being cut too (he was fine with the front being cut but not his back) Between that and his fear of running water, I stopped taking him to be groomed and bathe him at home. He can grow his nails out however he wants, just as long as he feels safe.

Amy showed a painting that her brother David’s partner, Hugh Hamrick, did of Tina. She introduced it by saying that she gets to request two paintings a year. I think I’m more jealous of that than anything else. I wonder if her friends ever try to slip their requests in under her quota? And the painting he did of Tina is great, look at how much personality he put into it. Amy should market that on t-shirts and coffee cups. Or maybe a shopping bag to carry your carrot tops home in.

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