Hey, my viewers, I'm back again. Sorry if any one of you have been frustrated with the standstill of this story, but now, you will see it continuing on, to your happiness, of course. Again, glad to be back! - DimensionTraveler23

To my pleasure, we managed to maintain for eight weeks through shifts of guarding our home, searching for survivors, etc. Brittany's pups grew into energetic, curious young puppies, There are four girls, with the fifth pup being a boy. A.J. for some reason, became a sort-of father-figure to them, and he seemed to be attracted to Brittany. The girls respectively in birth order, were named: Leah, Rachel, Daphne, and Michelle. As for the boy, he certainly reminded me of someone I knew back on HQ Earth, and I named him Zipper for his funny, fast-speaking attitude.

Now for survivors, we found merely a few, wandering around after their longpaw loudcages aka 'vehicles' crashed into places; a middle-aged senior male black lab named Hollow, a young adult calico female cat that Nicky found, called as Josephine or 'Josie' for short, and Evan found a young male Bluetick Coonhound named Arrow. We, the pack told the plan to the newbies, and they agreed to join us along. The food has ran out, but for a strange mystery, the water remained to return every time. Blossom said that the pipes leading to the low tub must be still working if the water continues to flow on for a long time until the pipes gets old.

Anyway, to our luck, Cooper and Baylee has found a similar place through smaller, and has a broken wooden door, which is some blocks off in the northern direction from our longpaw animal store. Our Pack has decided to go there in small groups of turns on a early morning, through from Nicky, he replied that the shop clan cats is heading off to the alleys to hunt their pastime prey, mice and rats; even pigeons too. We said goodbye to them before we parted, heading to the smaller den store. We found water in a abandoned longpaw den above the store, seeing that the pipes work as well, and the store is supplied in food, through barely enough to ration for another number of weeks or even a couple of months total.

Once again, we maintained the routine of rationing, having shifts, eating, and drinking, and with time, there has been developments in the pack, I and Baylee began to court each other, plus A.J. became mates with Brittany, Evan began courting with Violet, Nicky is with Josie as well, and to our surprise, we found out that Hollow and Arrow is gay and is now courting. Unfortunately, we never had anymore discoveries of any survivors or anything, so we figured that we are the last animals, along with the shop clan cats, to be the sole survivors of this city.

So, once I realized that, I gathered up everybody so we can discuss this night.

I sat, "Everyone, I fear we have a problem. Are we to stay in this city and survive, or are we destined to explore outside the city, and travel to other cities to see if there is any other survivors like us?". I woofed softly yet clearly.

"There is quite some concerns to that, Patchfire.". replied Hollow.

I tilted at that, "What may be these, Hollow?".

"If we are staying in this city, we have security and knowledge of the whole area, but there is also the risk of having all longpaw dens searched and used up for food and shelter, we may be forced to face to hunt, and I know this city has collapsed terribly. But if we leave the city, we may face worse dangers and strange food, but there is also the consideration that perhaps we can find survivors like us, and maybe longpaws out there.". Hollow wisely advised.

Baylee nodded, and snorted gently, "These are well-thought points. I know this city is numerous in longpaw dens, but there is a limit to that, as everything else does. The world outside the city is a mystery, waiting to be discovered, and perhaps it is more numerous in food, yes, strange, but we have seen things terrible and good in this city, and that cannot be any more less than the wild out there.".

"Then I suggest a vote; a paw in the air votes for the city while the tail thumps on the ground votes for the wild, accepted?". I barked. 9 tails vs 8 paws provided for the votes We opted to leave for the wild in a week for a few reasons; mainly searching furiously for survivors in the area, and teaching everybody to hunt and fight with me being the teacher since I have experience in surviving and fighting. Let's hope we can have some fighters and some hunters out of this situation. I may have lived in New York and survived there for almost two decades, but I'm sure the wild's a breeze for me.