I am Doodlebug, King of the Olde English Bulldogges. Lady Human, is that yet another chocolate bar you’re holding?
Sweetie: Tucked safely away in your front pocket with your floppy sleeve covering it?
Doodlebug: Hiding it from man and beast?
Me: Maybe.
Sweetie: Psst! Doodle, we could snatch it and bury it in the backyard. Then the ants could eat it and Lady Human would be saved.
Doodlebug: No, she’d worry that we had eaten it and we can’t have chocolate at all. But we could stare at her until she gets embarrassed.
Sweetie: She’s already embarrassed or she wouldn’t be hiding it.
MoonCat: No chocolate! Never! Sneaking rich treats? Shameful behavior. Unless, of course, it’s a sardine and I’m doing the sneaking. Then it’s perfectly justified.
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