Hot Gossip Soup – Conversations with the Pack

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I am Doodlebug, King of the Olde English Bulldogges. Ma’am, you’ve been on that little phone box a long time.

Sweetie: Lady Human, how come humans talk so much about other humans?

Me: I don’t know.

Doodlebug: Are other humans interesting?

Me: Not really that, but we do like to express our opinions.

Sweetie: Does it help to talk about humans? ‘Cuz it doesn’t help me to listen to it. Too many wordy words.

MoonCat: Mix it up, stir it real good, and out comes a yucky soup that even a bulldog won’t eat. You won’t catch me gossiping, except about bulldogges.

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Are Your Ears Burning? – Conversations with the Big Pack

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I am Doodlebug, King of the Olde English Bulldogges.

Baby and Bud: Tweet. Tweet. (Quiet chattering.)

Me: Hey, Sweetie, Doodle, are your ears burning?

Sweetie: Burning ears! PUT ‘EM OUT! PUT ‘EM OUT!

Me: Not real fire. I mean I think the parakeets are talking about you.

Doodlebug: Lady Human was using a bizarre phrase, one of those sets of words that make no sense.

Sweetie: Well, she needs to stop doing that and speak plainly so a bulldog can understand.

MoonCat: Even without weird human expressions, that may be impossible.

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