Owlowiscious was seated in front of a desk, with a paper and a pencil in front of him. A few meters away, there was a board with Russell standing next to it. The hedgehog took a marker, and wrote all the letters of the alphabet, with both upper case and lower case letters. He pointed to the upper case letter A.

"This is the uppercase letter A. Repeat after me, 'A'."

Owloiscious hooted. Russell sighed.

This is going to be a long lesson, Russell thought.

He tried again. "This is the lower case letter A. Repeat after me, 'A'."

The owl hooted, again. Russell mumbled, "Hmm…" as he was thinking. Then, Russell got a treat idea that he hoped would work.

As if out of nowhere, music started playing, and Russell started singing.

"A is for art,"

As Russell was pacing, he tripped over Minka's bucket of paint that she was using. The bucked got knocked down, and the paint spilled, ending with Russell falling a further distance on his belly. Russell said, "I'll need to clean this up later." He continued singing his song.

"And C is for coat.

D is for dumbwaiter,

And E is for elevator.

F is for fabric,

And G is for garlic.

H is for herd,

And I i for iceberg.

J is for jot,

And K is for knock.

L is for light

And M is for mite.

N is for notion,

And O is for Ocean.

P stands for pill,

And Q stands for quill.

R stands for rain,

And S stands for Spain.

T is for Titanium.

And U is for Uranium.

V is for Violin

And W is for wind.

X is for xylophone,

And Y is for yarn.

Z is for zebra.

There are more words to add, but they are too many to list~!"

The room was silent. Russell approached the bird and commanded, "Repeat after me. 'A.'"

There was still silence. There was some big suspense, and all the pets wanted to know what the owl would say.

"Hoo!" exclaimed Owlowiscious.

All the pets groaned.

Minka gave her opinion. "Maybe he's too young to be able to learn those things yet."

"And you could tell me that only now?" He demanded. The poor little hedgehog was frustrated. "I give up." He said. All the pets gasped. Vinnie told him with shock, "But you never give up on teaching someone something! Don't you remember that time you insisted on teaching me to know the periodic table of elements by heart, AND sorted by atomic numbers? Here, I can list them all by order. We have Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium –"

"Yes, but you already knew basic things. This owl can't even learn the alphabet!"