Hey Cinder Dog! Star Burst here! Boy, you sure got me pegged! I'm just "bursting" out all over, all the time!! From too much food, too much energy, and, ah, if I do say so myself, too much pride, sometimes, or so my mom says!! Wow, am I syched!! The Kid got a name!! And some fancy, long falutin handle it is, too! "On top of old Smokey..." la, la, la, la, la..well, you know the tune, Cind. Gotta teach it to the Kid, ah, SMOKEY! Every mutt's gotta have a theme song! Mine is "Twinkle, twinkle, little..." Bit babyish for a sophisticated young lady such as myself, but mom LOVES to sing it to me when I'm catching some zzzzzz's. Ugh! What us pooches won't tolerate to pleeze um!! And it's all official....the Kid's now a permanent rez-eee-dent there at "dad's den!" How cool!! Seems all Smokey's fizical fix-its are all progessing smoothly, so me and the Codster are reeeel happy to hear that. Geee, Cind, gotta tell dad ta check the listings before checking out for the nite. Yeah, of course, the little piggie sure did turn out being the hero in the end. Kinda bought a tear to the ole eye seeing how the ole farmer fella was won over by the little critter. Kinda reminds me a you, dad and the now famous Smokey saga!! I just LOVE a happy ending! And that chorus of singing meeces (you know, lots a mouse kids) la, la, la-ing just cracks me up! Well, gotta get off this thing to hunt down mom for vittles. If you can believe it, as if I didn't have to fight for every ounce a attention as it is, mom went out today and got HERSELF a pig. Not the Babe kind. She's yappin somethin bout a "guinea pig?" What the heck is that??? All I know is me and the Codster and Mr. B the cat are goin BONKER NUTS smellin out the critter and trying to locate it's, well location! She stuffed it in some kinda clear ball thing that it runs around in and I wanna chase it sooooo bad! Anywho, just what I needed Cinder Dog, more competition for mom's attention. From a rodent, no less!! But, she went to the animal shelter today and just couldn't come home empty pawed, if you know what I mean. Geeez, even the thing's name is cute..."Squeekers" Hmmmmm.....sounds like one those stuffed things I love to play with! Well Cinder Dog, you now got a bro; it's all official and legal like!! Once they put that rabies ID thingy on ya, your THEIRS!! Between you and me Cind, I think next ta gettin you girl, it's probably the second best thing he ever done! And just one more thing, Cinder Dog...YEAH!!!!!!!!! Big hugs to the now official Smokey, brother of Cinder the Wonder Dog!! (And of course to dad too, without whom all of this would not be possible!