Pavlov the Corgi graduates from UCLA

Pavlov the corgi has an Instagram, an email account, and now a college dog-gree.
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Sophie Hirsh
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Pavlov the corgi has an Instagram, an email account, and now a college dog-gree.

Pavlov's Instagram details his journey posing as a UCLA student for the past eight weeks, cumulating in an adorable doggy graduation that his humans staged this past weekend.



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"Pavlov's graduation was something that we thought would be cute and fun since the UCLA community has been such a big part of Pavlov's life thus far," Pavlov's humans Anthony Osuna and Elayne Tram Nguyen wrote in an email to Mashable.

Osuna graduated from UCLA last year and now works at the college in a research lab, and Tram is graduating this coming weekend. They both majored in Psychology, which inspired Pavlov's name.


"Since this is our last year on campus, we really wanted to both share UCLA with Pavlov and Pavlov with the UCLA community," Osuna and Tram told Mashable."Pavlov's journey as a UCLA student is sort of like a documentation of our UCLA experience".

Pavlov's UCLA adventure began as a tour guide, according to his Instagram. The joyful corgi showed his followers some of UCLA's most beautiful spots, including the Janss Steps and the Inverted Fountain.



And then before we knew it, little Pavlov was all grown up and a college graduate.





"Thus far, UCLA hasn't formally recognized Pavlov's graduation, but if they wanted to give him an honorary dog-gree, that would be pretty legit," Osuna and Tram said.

Proud parents Osuna and Tram shared some other graduation photos from Pavlov's big day with Mashable.


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They grow up so fast. But at least we'll always have this memory of Pavlov from his wild college days.



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Sophie was a Viral Content Intern for the Watercooler channel. More writing and other stuff by Sophie can be found at www.sophiehirsh.com.

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