Seeing that the bull was calm, the park ranger, Todd, was helping Lloyd and Dan see what they could do with getting the fence fixed. This of course gave Binx's father the perfect opportunity for him and Copper to sneak over and make quick work of the latch holding the cage closed.
"Thanks once again for all the help, Copper" Tod said as he and his son prepared to dart off before the humans noticed. The hound just smiled, "Don't mention it".
"You guys too" Tod added, looking to the Singing Strays. Cash shrugged, "Hey, just consider it us paying back the favor of making us stars" he replied.
Meanwhile Tiny was in the worst spot of his life now. It was impossible to act like he still disliked Binx and his friends after he'd just saved their lives.
"So..." Binx began hesitantly, turning to where Tiny was trying to ignore the whole group. "I guess...I do owe ya some kind of...well...". Chipi laughed at her friend's rambling. "He's trying to say thanks for saving our lives" she told the toy fox terrier. Tiny gave what sounded like an annoyed sigh, yet then smiled a bit and shrugged, "Ah...don't mention it" he said.
With that taken care of, and once the kids all bid each other farewell, Tod hurried Binx and Midnight along to escort the little raccoon back where he belonged before he and Binx returned to their forest den. "So...are you sure we can't go back to the fair with Chipi?" the dogs heard Binx ask his father. Copper smiled as he could clearly detect a small sigh from Tod as the group got farther away.
"Well gang" Todd the park ranger said, walking back over to the dogs, "I think that fence will hold so why don't we just get this little fox where he belong--". Todd paused as he noticed the empty cage. "Where'd he?" he began. The red headed park ranger just sighed and shrugged, "Oh well...I guess he rushed off and, I can't exactly track him down now..." he said as he gave a brief glance to his puppy, Clover, but the scouting dog in training wasn't up to anything like that just yet, so he had no chance but to drop the subject and hope the little guy made it back to his family safe.
"I'll just let Joe and them know to keep an eye out for an alone kit" he said to himself as he scooped up both his and Andy's puppies and motioned to Copper to follow him back over towards the fair ground once more.
Copper immediately jogged over to sit right by the young park ranger's feet for when he started walking. Todd smiled to himself, "You know for Mr. Slade's dog, you're pretty obedient" he said in a slight joke. Copper just tilted one ear up, as he understood the words but didn't get the joke.
As Todd looked at Lloyd's dogs the man had mentioned vaguely, he couldn't help thinking a bit and soon turned his gaze back to where Lloyd was just finishing up helping Dan put away the tools. "Mr. Lloyd. You said your dogs do an act? Well I'm heading back to a local fair. Would they like to come perform there?" he asked.
Lloyd smiled, "Well they've actually gotten radio coverage by now you know, but it was in the local fairs that we got started, so...yeah I think we'd love to get back to our roots and pay homage to what started us off!" he replied. He turned to grin down at his dogs, "What do you guys say?!". Cash barked his agreement for the whole group. Chipi and Clover smiled at each other, glad that the Singing Strays would be coming along as well.
All in all, it actually helped Todd's reputation with the old hunter a bit when Amos saw him brining back not only the puppies, but Copper as well. "Well...a kid with that good a handle on dogs can't be too bad" the old hunter relented. It was his form of thank you.
As the humans all expressed their happiness that the dogs were safe, and Andy and Todd helped Lloyd find an empty tent where his now really famous dogs could perform, Chipi glanced over to Clover. "Ya think we'll ever see Tiny again?" she wondered. Clover shrugged, "I don't know; but I think he might be annoyed if we do".
Chipi laughed, "Yeah, but the kind of annoyed where he still likes us, right?". Clover laughed himself, "Of course". The puppies conversation was halted after this when they heard the Singing Strays keying up for their performance and they quickly rushed off into the tent to listen. Copper sighed, yet also smiled to himself as he followed them, "Now please, no more of this getting lost stuff" he pleaded.