"Hey, guys, this is Rover," Raffles introduced. "He'll be staying with us. Rover, I'd like ya to meet Max, Duke, Lem and Clem."
"How can you tell one from the other?" Maisy asked.
"That's the challenge." Raffles whispered. "Even they can't tell each other apart."
This caused for Maisy to giggle.
"Wow, I had a tough day," Rover came over to the other dogs. "I wanna relax. Hey, whatya do for fun around here?"
"Well, after dinner, we usually get together and howl at the moon." Duke replied.
"I can hardly wait," Rover deadpanned. "So whatya do after that, play 'Watch the Wheat'?"
"Come on, fellas!" Danny called out.
This made the dogs eagerly and hungrily rush over to get their dinner.
"Whoa." Maisy said.
Danny laughed as he carried a pail of food and the dogs hungrily came around him and he threw out dog food with gravy and corn mushed up into it as he then poured it for the dogs to eat.
"Sheesh, where's Joe the Cook?" Rover grumbled.
"This is the food you are stuck with." Maisy said.
"I don't know if Rolly would even eat this..." Patch cringed at the food slightly.
"Patch! Maisy! Colette! Time for dinner!" Pongo called out.
"Oh, boy, see ya Rover!" Patch rushed over in excitement.
Maisy laughed and joined him.
"Oh, sure, leave me here..." Rover groaned. "No respect, I tell ya, no respect at all."
Ellie May seemed to enjoy the food however. Rover seemed disgusted by how Ellie May could also enjoy the dog food.
"Hello, Dad." Patch smiled.
"Oh, Patch, it's wonderful to see you, look at how much you've grown." Pongo smiled to his son.
"I was here last summer, Dad." Patch smiled.
"Oh, I know, but you change every time I see you." Pongo chuckled.
"Yes, you really are a handsome young dog." Perdita agreed.
"He sure is." Colette smiled.
Patch blushed to her.
"Hello, Colette, wonderful to see you again." Perdita smiled to the cocker spaniel puppy.
"I'm happy to back, ma'am." Colette smiled as she bowed.
"Would you like to join us?" Pongo invited.
"I would love to." Colette beamed.
Everyone was soon eating dinner. Patch helped Colette out a little since it was a lot more crowded here than her own home.
Nanny smiled to the puppies and then went inside to see Roger and Anita for their own dinner. And where she also saw Atticus and Atlas. "Oh, a couple of guests to stay for dinner?" she then asked.
"Yes, ma'am," Atlas said as he set Tripod down to join his brothers and sisters to their dinner. "I hope that's okay."
"It's quite alright, at least then we have more mouths to feed." Nanny smiled.
Atlas and Atticus chuckled as they then came inside the Dearly house to have dinner.
"I really like that Atlas guy." Tripod smiled.
"You two seem close," Cadpig remarked. "You want him to adopt you, don't you?"
"Well, it would be nice to have an owner." Tripod said.
"I'll miss you very much." Cadpig cooed.
Lucky could see how close Cadpig and Tripod were and began to think of how both Tripod and Cadpig would both get adopted together. "Hmm..." he hummed deeply in thought.
Later that night, it was time for bed, so Patch, Colette, Maisy, and Ellie May joined the other hundreds of dalmatian puppies into the barn to sleep for the night.
"I hope Lieutenant Pug doesn't wake me up too early, I've been through enough for one day." Patch yawned.
"Don't worry, he's on vacation." Lucky said.
"Thank goodness." Patch sounded relieved.
"He'll be back next month." Rolly yawned.
"Oh, joy..." Patch groaned.
Spot nestled down with the puppies and fell asleep with them.
"Where's Ellie May?" Maisy asked.
Colette looked around. "Guess she wanted to stay with Rover and those other dogs."
"I guess so." Patch said.
Colette sleepily nuzzled up to Patch. Patch sleepily nuzzled her back.
Meanwhile, next door...
Ellie May came to see Rover and the other dogs, Raffles had given a bone to Rover to cheer him up about the dog food. Ellie May seemed to feel her heart start pound every time she saw Raffles even if they just met.
"You okay?" Raffles asked the small pit bull.
"Uh, yeah, I appreciate you helping Rover around the farm." Ellie May smiled to him.
"It's the least I can do." Raffles smiled.
Ellie May seemed to blush at his smile.
"So, are you a country dog too?" Raffles then asked her.
"More or less," Ellie May replied. "I live in Tennessee."
"That's fascinating." Raffles smiled.
"Yeah, I love playing with Hayden." Ellie May giggled.
"Is that your human?" Raffles asked.
"Yeah, after his mom met her husband who was her boyfriend back then, they decided to adopt me to make their family complete." Ellie May smiled at the memory.
"How far is your home?" Raffles asked.
"Oh, I'd say kinda far from here, Michael's sister was watching me and then we came to visit Vegas, that's when we met Rover, and then, something terrible happened..." Ellie May said.
"What happened?" Raffles asked.
"This man was supposed to watch us while the others decided to go with Darla's Aunt Connie," Ellie May explained. "He then threw us over the water in the Hoover Dam... I don't know why, but it was awful."
"The guy sounds like he wanted you guys out of the way." Raffles said.
"We don't like him very much..." Ellie May frowned about Rocky.
"I can tell." Raffles said.
Ellie May then yawned slightly.
"You better get some sleep, you've had a long day." Raffles said.
"Um, mind if I stay for the night?" Ellie May smiled sheepishly.
"Sure." Raffles smiled.
Ellie May smiled as she then joined Raffles to their shelter for the night. Raffles led Ellie May to where he slept with the other dogs for the night. Ellie May decided to sleep with Raffles as she felt a special spot in her heart for him.
Raffles made sure there would be room for her. "Comfortable?"
"I think so, thank you, Raffles," Ellie May smiled. "It'll be like staying in my kennel."
"That's good; I wanna make you feel as comfortable as possible." Raffles smiled.
Ellie May blushed in response to the slightly older and kinder dog. "Come on, Rover."
"What, sleep in here?" Rover replied. "It's kinda crowded, isn't it? Maybe I'll sleep outside."
"I don't know, I have a bad feeling." Ellie May said.
Clem and Lem then began to have a debate about Rover's decision of sleeping outside.
"I'll take my chances outside." Rover shook his head at them and went to sleep outside their shelter.
Ellie May's fear soon got an answer as there was then wolf howls heard outside."What's that?!" Rover panicked from one howl.
"The wolves," Max informed. "They're hunting today. It's their blood feast. Be careful out here, Rover. They've been known to kill a chicken or two."
"Oh, yeah? Well, I'm not worried!" Rover replied. "I'm no chicken!" he then went back to sleep until he heard another howl which then made him cluck.
Ellie May soon used her tail as a way to tell him to come in. Rover came in and shut the door behind him as the other dogs started to fall asleep. Rover then sighed as he took a spot in between Lem and Clem as he sang a song to himself as he felt terrible homesick with his new surroundings. Ellie May seemed to come closer to Raffles while she was asleep. Raffles seemed to smile and blush in his sleep as she did that.
Ellie May began to dream herself about Raffles' age. It then began to rain through the night. But before that, a star shot down and hit Ellie May lightly. Ellie May winced slightly, but turned in her sleep as something started to change deep with inside the pit bull. And where her body soon started to grow into a beautiful older version of herself one that would be old enough to have puppies with Raffles.
Meanwhile, in another spot...
Connie was getting ready for bed, she was wearing her bathrobe as she sat on the toilet with a magazine and Darla was taking a bubble bath. "I sure hope Rover and the others are okay, I can't help but feel something is wrong."
"I'm having the same feeling." Darla said.
"Tilt your head back, please." Connie said.
Darla nodded and did as told. Connie then squeezed some shampoo into her hands and began to scrub Darla's curly hair.
Mo started to get worried as well and where she could feel in her heart that something was wrong. Cherry was blowing on her fingernails as she sat on their bed.
"Maybe we should call them." Mo said.
"Could you get the phone on speaker?" Cherry asked. "My cubicles are still wet."
"I'll try his cell." Mo said.
Cherry gave Mo the number as she had known it by heart due to knowing Atticus for a rather long time. Mo nodded as she took the phone, put it on speaker, and dialed Atticus's cell.
And where soon his cell phone started to ring as Atticus started to groan as he had it with him and where he had made it water proof. He flopped his hand all over to grab his phone and then answer it. "Hello?" he mumbled groggily.
"Atticus, did I wake you up?" Mo's voice asked.
"It's the middle of the night," Atticus answered groggily. "Oh and by the way, Rocky is more evil than we thought."
"Is that right...?" Mo asked.
"What do you mean, Atticus and where are you?" Cherry then asked.
"I'm at the Dearly Farm with Atlas and the others, Rover, and Ellie May are at the Hill's Farm." Atticus told them.
"What're you doing there?" Cherry then asked.
"Rocky knocked us out and tried to drown us." Atticus replied.
"Should we tell Connie?" Mo asked.
"I'm not sure..." Cherry frowned. "It might kill her if she hears Rover is lost."
"So how long until you guys get back to Vegas?" Mo asked.
"I'm afraid we don't know for right now..." Atticus said.
"Well stay there as long as you need I have a feeling Rover might learn a few things on the farm." Mo's voice said.
"Me too, but I swear, Mo, when I see that Rocky guy, I'm gonna give him a real piece of my mind." Atticus nearly growled.
"I agree." Mo's voice answered the same way.
"Well, I better get back to sleep." Atticus yawned.
"Oh... Yeah, you do that..." Mo sounded soft about letting him go. "You be careful."
"'Careful' is my middle name." Atticus promised.
"I thought it was James?" Cherry smirked.
"Hardy har har." Atticus groaned.
"Night, Atticus, sweet dreams." Mo said softly.
"I will after talking with you~" Atticus said dreamily.
Cherry groaned, but luckily for her, they did not overdo it and eventually hung up on each other so Atticus could get some sleep. "Thank goodness." She then sighed.
Mo stuck her tongue out to Cherry.
"Hey, girls, who was on the phone?" Connie smiled as she came into the room.
"What do we do?" Mo whispered.
"Oh, that was just Atticus," Cherry said. "He couldn't talk long, just checking in because he was really tired."
"Must be having a lot of fun with Rover and Atlas..." Connie smiled.
"Yeah, that must be it." Mo smiled nervously.
"Oh, those boys are so sweet..." Connie giggled.
Cherry and Mo smiled nervously as Darla came to get some sleep for the night.
