A pet store is a celebration of dogs’ existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, ’Here, we couldn’t think of anything else.’ Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there’s only so much hoopla applicable to them.

Crosley uses the pet store as a comic microcosm of cultural preference: dogs receive loud, abundant celebration (toys, costumes, gear), while cats are treated as an afterthought with fewer, less exuberant offerings. The comparison to Hanukkah sharpens the joke by framing “cat people” as a contented minority whose devotion is real but not matched by mainstream spectacle. Beneath the humor is an observation about marketing and social narratives: what a culture deems expressive, trainable, and publicly performable (dogs) attracts more commercial “hoopla,” while what is private, self-contained, or less easily commodified (cats) is honored more quietly.