Thank goodness. Our heroes got Angel straight to the vet on time. As a matter of fact, they got here rather earlier than they planned.

At the veterinary clinic, a Penelope held Angel's leash while waiting with the Ant Hill Mob at the clinic's waiting room.

Suddenly, a nurse with a red bun and long white nurse's dress and cap came out and asked for Penelope's name.

"Miss Pitstop and Angel?"

"Why yes." Penelope answered as she stood up and scooped Angel up in her arms.

The nurse led Penelope and her dog into the vet's examination room where they waited for the vet.

Angel gave a whimper of fear.

"Don't worry Angel." Penelope whispered as she stroked her dog's fur. "No one will hurt you here."

A veterinarian with dark hair, glasses and a white doctor's lab coat and stethoscope came in and greeted Penelope.

Vet: "Good afternoon, Miss Pitstop."

Penelope: "Why good afternoon, Doctor."

"And this must be Angel. And she is here so that I can see if she's healthy enough to compete in the dog show this afternoon." The vet said as he gently lifted Angel from Penelope's arms and onto the examination table. "Is that correct."

"It sure is, doctor." Penelope replied with a smile going to stand by Angel and hold her to put her at ease.

"First I'll need to have a good listen to see how her heart is." The vet told them as he listened to Angel's heart with his stethoscope.

Vet: "Angel's heart sounds good."

He took out an otoscope (the tool doctors use to look in patients' ears) and used it to look into Angel's ears.

"Her ears look very healthy." The vet told Penelope.

"You're such a brave girl, Angel." Penelope told her pup, gently scratching Angel behind the ears.

The vet then took an ophthalmoscope (the tool doctors use to look in patients' eyes) and looked into Angel's blue eyes with it.

"Her eyes have no problems and they are quite a lovely blue color." The vet complemented on Angel's blue eyes.

"You're doing so good Angel." Penelope reassured her pup. "Just let the vet keep doing what he needs to do to make sure you're in the best of health. It won't take long."

The vet checked Angel's temperature and pulse, and then opened the dog's mouth to check her teeth.

"You're dog is healthy enough to compete in the show and is free to go, Miss Pitstop." The vet announced as he handed Angel back to Penelope. "Good luck to the two of you at the dog show."

"Thank you so much." Penelope replied as she walked out of the exam room with Angel in her arms. "Y'all take care now."

"How did she do, Penelope?" Clyde asked as he went up to Penelope and Angel with the rest of the Ant Hill Mob.

"She was nervous at first but she was a good girl and a trooper." Penelope smiled while looking at her pocket watch. "I'm so happy we got here early, and from what that clock says, we pretty much got done early too."

Suddenly, a veterinary surgeon wearing white old-fashioned surgical attire, white protective gloves, a doctor's cap and a surgical mask arrived and stopped in front of Penelope and the Ant Hill Mob.

"Excuse me, Doctor, but who might you be?"

"My name is Dr. Do-In-Fairchild, Veterinary surgeon." The surgeon introduced himself.

Little did the heroes know that the surgeon was the Hooded Claw in disguise.

"I would like to examine your dog, please Miss Pitstop." The "surgeon" requested.

"But the vet we just saw said that she was in good health for the show." Penelope was confused.

"Yes but it's important that I check for any injuries or illnesses that may need operating on." Replied the "surgeon."

"Such as what, doctor?" Penelope asked.

"Any defects, diseases, broken bones or torn muscles." Replied the "surgeon." "After all she must be in complete health to compete."

Penelope: "That is true. If you must check my dog for any of that stuff, I'll be happy to allow you to do so."

"Thank you my dear." The surgeon said. "I'll have my surgical assistants bring your dog into the exam room in the back."

The "surgeon" turned his head.

"Help me bring Angel to the examination room in the very back, please." The surgeon ordered.

"Right, Doctor." Replied the "assistants", who were really the Bully Brothers in disguise.

The surgeon lifted Angel out of Penelope's arms and onto a gurney.

"I'll need you to wait out here while we examine your dog." The surgeon told Penelope and the Ant Hill Mob as he and the "assistants" took Angel into the back room.

Once the "doctors" were alone with Angel in the back room, they quickly whipped off their disguises and appeared once again as the Hooded Claw and the Bully Brothers, shocking Angel.

The Hooded Claw gave a sinister laugh as he carried Angel in his arms and escaped through the window with the Bully Brothers, who looked confused about his plan.

Oh no! That hooded doctor of do-badding in has made off with Angel! But he seems to have forgotten Penelope. I wonder why.

Hooded Claw: "I did not forget her, you ding-bat! I still need Pitstop, but not immediately."

"Why did you get Penelope's dog and not Penelope?" They asked in unison. "She's the one you're after."

"Yes, but this is part of my trap." The Hooded Claw explained. "I'm gonna use Penelope's mutt, Angel as bait for the trap. When Pitstop comes and stops to save her pup, we'll capture her!"

Angel barked and growled at her dognappers.

Penelope heard the sound of her dog barking and growling, and so did the Ant Hill Mob.

Penelope: "That sounds like Angel. Come with me fellas."

The Ant Hill Mob followed Angel into the back exam room and were shocked to find the window open and Angel no longer in the room.

"Oh no!" Penelope gasped. "Angel!"

Yak-Yak: "(Giggle) Angel's been dognapped!"

"Uh, I wonder who took her away." Dum-Dum wondered.

Clyde: "Only one person I can think of."

"The Hooded Claw." Penelope and the Ant Hill Mob said together.

They once again heard Angel barking and whimpering. The noise was coming from outside and in another alley around the corner.

"Keep on barking pretty puppy." The Hooded Claw laughed as he tied Angel's fuchsia collar with rope that was tied to the post of a phone line. "We can hardly wait for Pitstop to come to you, and to me."

The Hooded Claw and the Bully Brothers heard Penelope calling Angel's name.

"Speak of the devil." Grinned the Hooded Claw. "Alright, Bully Brothers. Climb those building stairs and stay out of sight. When I give the signal, drop that cage on Pitstop."

"Right, Claw." The Bully Brothers answered as the climbed the stairs.

Hooded Claw: "Good. And remember, no mistakes, or else!"

"Or else what, Claw?" The Bully Brothers asked nervously.

"Or else I'll chop your heads off." The Hooded Claw threatened, making a slashing motion across his neck with his finger.

"There's the trap and Pitstop's pretty little pooch is the bait." The Hooded Claw smiled wickedly as he hid in a garbage can in the alley.

In search of her dognapped dog, Penelope searches the alley, unaware of the trap and the danger that awaits her, and maybe Angel, even.

"Angel!" Penelope called for her dog, walking in the alley. "Where could you be, girl?"

When she saw her tethered pup whimpering and barking, Penelope felt nervous and worried.

"Oh, Angel you poor puppy!" Penelope cried as she walked to her tied-up dog. "Did that hooded fiend do this to you?"

Angel nodded and whimpered.

"I'll have you out in a little ole jiffy." Penelope reassured Angel.

Angel then became nervous and she barked to warn Penelope about the trap.

"But Angel, I need to get you free." Penelope told Angel as she started to untie the rope around Angel's collar.

But Angel's trying to tell you something important.

The Hooded Claw rose up from the garbage can and turned to the waiting Bully Brothers.

"Now, Bully Brothers." He told his henchmen.

"Right, Claw." The Bully Brothers answered back, holding a cage.

Penelope, look out!

As soon as Penelope untied Angel and scooped her up in her arms, The Bully Brothers dropped a cage on Penelope, trapping both her and Angel.

"Oh dear!" the caged Penelope cried. "I should've known this was a little ole trap!"

"But if you knew, Pitstop, it wouldn't be much fun now, would it?" The Hooded Claw laughed, catching Penelope and Angel's attention.

"Oh, not you again, you fiend!" Gasped Penelope. "So you're that veterinary surgeon! Don't y'all realize it's illegal to impersonate a doctor?"

"Illegal is my middle name, my dear." The Hooded Claw replied with an arrogant smile.

As he walked close to Penelope, Angel snarled at him.

Hooded Claw: "Now to take you away from this old alley to do away with you my pretty, and your little dog, too. Take them away, Bully Brothers."

"Yes, sir." The Bully Brothers replied as they lifted the cage holding Penelope and Angel and dashed off with the Hooded Claw.

Once again the Hooded Claw makes off with Penelope and Angel and takes them to whatever fate awaits them, wherever it could be.

Meanwhile the Ant Hill Mob was outside in the city looking for Penelope and Angel, when they heard Angel's barking and howling for help.

Yak-Yak: "(Giggle) Listen, Clyde. Angel's barking and howling for help."

"Those barks remind me of my childhood dog, Sparky." Softy sobbed.

Snoozy: "Yeah, Sparky. (Snore)"

"Those barks and howls mean that Angel needs help." Clyde told the others.

They also heard Penelope calling for help.

"Hey-elp! Hey-elp!"

"And Penelope's in trouble for that matter!" Said Pockets.

Zippy: "The Hooded Claw's got her, got her again!"

"Oh, not again." Clyde worried. "We've got to find her, and Angel. Quick, Chuggaboom. Go find help us find them."

Chuggaboom sniffed out both Penelope and Angel's scents and drove off with the Ant Hill Mob inside.

Nice work, Chuggaboom! You've definitely got good sniff and search skills, and you must've learned a thing or two from Angel. Please do get to Penelope and Angel on time. I hate to think of what that fiend has planned for Penelope and what he could do to a poor dog for that matter.

Note: This Fan-Fic is dedicated in Loving Memory of Gary Owens (May 10, 1934-February 12, 2015), who starred as the off-screen narrator. Rest in Peace, Mr. Owens. I hope that your fellow co-stars in "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop," Paul Lynde (Sylvester Sneekly/The Hooded Claw), Mel Blanc (The Bully Brothers, Chuggaboom, and Yak-Yak), Don Messick (Dum-Dum, Snoozy, Pockets, and Zippy) and Paul Winchell (Clyde and Softy) were there to greet you! That means Janet Waldo (Penelope Pitstop) is the only surviving voice actor/actress of "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop."