When Byron went to University he wanted to bring his pet dog that he was very attached to, literally there's a monument to this dog with a poem that he wrote upon it's passing so this was probably the being he loved most in the world, but the school wouldn't allow him to because it was against the rules. And refused to make an exception. His response? He went out and got a bear cub and brought it to the campus as his pet and when told he couldn't have a pet bear on campus he told them to show him the rule forbidding it. There was no rule at that time against it so he got to keep his bear on campus for the term until they could implement a new rule against it.