The screen's static slowly dissipated into the enthusiastic face of Vinnie Terrio. Music was heard thumping in the background, the entire day camp was littered with confetti and party favors and Russell was seen stuck to the roof with a piece of duct tape slapped over his mouth.

Vinnie struggled to keep a straight face when looking at the camera, but his efforts failed as he burst into another hysterical bout of laughter. "Su-Sunil! The cam's on!"

"Really?" the mongoose asked from the sidelines.

"Yeah!"

"Okay, get ready!"

Vinnie returned his attention from the unseen mongoose back to the camera. "Oh-ho-ho man! Blythe, you have got to see this! It's gonna b-ha-ha-ha! Oh, man! I'm already laugh-hing!" Vinnie wiped a tear away from his eye and breathed, trying to tame his composure.

"Okay," he began, straight-faced. "Here we go: So, today is Zoe's birthday, right? Practically everyone came to the shop today, by the way. Even that Pom girl made an appearance! But anyway, Buttercream and Sugar Sprinkles brought a dish of brownies to the party, (which were pretty bangin', if I do say so myself). But what they didn't know was that dogs can't eat chocolate! Zoe knew this, but now... just, heh, JUST LOOK!"

Before he caught another case of the giggles, Vinnie whipped the camera around to face the bulk of the party. There, it filmed a gathering of all the regular pet shop day campers, along with the 'Sweet Delights' pets and Madame Pom, gathered around Pepper Clarke and Zoe Trent.

Pepper nudged a plate of brownies closer to the quivering canine. "C'mon, Zoe! Just one little bite!"

"Not a chance! I'll get sick!" Zoe outstretched a hind leg and pushed the plate back to her grinning friend.

Buttercream bounced and place and sang, "Do it! Do it! Do it!"

"Yeah, come on Zoe!" cheered Minka, followed by Penny asking, "What's the worst that can happen?"

Pepper grabbed the plate and lifted it to Zoe's face; she turned away from it with her forelegs crossed over her chest. Then before she knew it, every pet in the camp started cheering, "Eat it! Eat it! Eat it! Eat it!"

Vinnie screamed over the chant: "I'LL LET YOU CHEW ON MY DANCE SHOES!"

Zoe finally snapped. "Alright! Fine, I'll do it! Just shut up! All of you!"

The camera turned back to face Vinnie, who was wearing a stupid grin. "She's gonna do it!" he gushed. "Of course, 'ol Rusty immediately hopped aboard the ban-wagon when Buttercream and Sprinkles brought the brownies. Sunil and I took care of it, of course."

Vinnie turned his head and looked up at Russell, who was fruitlessly shaking his stubby little legs in an effort to get loose. "Hi Rusty!" Vinnie called up, mockingly.

"MMPH!" he screamed through the duct tape.

Sunil came rushing into the camera's view and grabbed his reptilian friend by the shoulders, "Vinnie, Zoe is going to eat the brownie! Get the recording device ready!"

He ran back to join the group while Vinnie bent over and picked up the camera with much effort. "Yeesh! What are these things made of? It's a flippin' spaceship! Ugh, anyway, here's Zoe about to eat it! Oh man, oh man!"

It took several seconds for the camera's picture to focus, but when it did, it showed the pets leaning in expectantly and chanting 'Eat it, eat it, eat it,' in a soft, almost mystifying, murmur.

As the distance between the brownie and Zoe's jittering maw lessened, the pets' chanting grew louder in turn: "Eat it. Eat it! EAT IT!"

When Zoe finally lunged at the brownie and swallowed it in one disgusting bite, the pets cheered like warlords in victory. They all exchanged high-fives and pats on the back with the birthday dog. However, their optimism was replaced with screams of laughter as Zoe's face turned a sickly green.

"Oh my goodness!" cried Sunil. "Vinnie! Are you filming this!?"

"Every second of it, buddy!" Vinnie replied, outstretching a hand from under the camera and giving a thumbs up. Zoe bolted through the throng of pets, off camera, supposedly to a wastepaper basket.

"Jeez!" The gecko turned the camera to face him once again. "As you can see, Blythe, you're really missing out on one heck of a party! But, I guess you're having fun at F.U.N., so that's-,"

"Vinnie!" Sunil called, out of frame. "Zoe completely missed the garbage pail!"

"BWA-HA-HA-HA!" The camera went flying out of Vinnie's hands; from its point of view, the whole room started spinning until it collided with the wall and abruptly cut to static.

The camera's picture made a quick edit into what looked like some sort of doctor's office, or a surgery room. On the operating table, holding the camera, was Zoe Trent. She had a tired look to her face, which was most likely due to the tube going through her mouth and down her throat. One paw held the camera while the other was protectively laid over a pair of chewed up dance shoes. One simple phrase, muddled up by the tube but not to a drastic extent, was muttered by Zoe as it began sucking out chunks of brownie from her stomach:

"Totally worth it."