Animals may be our friends, but they won't pick you up at the airport.

The line is a dry, self-deprecating joke about the limits of companionship. By calling animals “friends” and then undercutting the sentiment with a mundane logistical need—an airport pickup—it contrasts emotional comfort with practical reciprocity. The humor depends on the anticlimax: friendship is often idealized as unconditional, yet adult life measures reliability in small acts of service. It also lightly satirizes human expectations of others (and the petty resentments around favors), implying that affection alone doesn’t solve everyday problems. In that sense, it’s less anti-animal than it is a comic reminder that different kinds of relationships offer different kinds of support.