And Thus, a Dog

[showcase_showdog]

Standing outside the door to the cafeteria is a 5-foot-3-inch-tall puppy man wearing a red blazer, yellow necktie, and blue pants.

He'll assure you that he's an adult and not a puppy, but there's no making a shih-tzu with a puppy cut look terribly old.

He appears to be guarding the entrance to the cafeteria. If you want to get in for your afternoon snack or your noon-time meal, you're going to have to get past him.

He's quite diligent. There is no sneaking past him. He always gets his man, or woman, or pelican, or squirrel. Or tapir.

The point is, you're going to have to talk to this adorable dog man if you want to eat.

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[showcase_showdog]

Digby turned around and saw Jolt and somehow stopped his sneaking dart into the cafeteria. "Oh, hello there, friend," said Digby. "Do you want to go into the cafeteria?"

[rivalthunderbolts]

Jolt was stopped. Again. "How are you even doing that? Do you have like, eyes in the back of your head?" Jolt asked, trying to peek behind Digby to search for the secret of his guarding prowess.

[showcase_showdog]

"Uh," the dogman said uncomfortably. "I don't quite... understand what you said there."

[rivalthunderbolts]

Maybe it would help if he were human and could speak english. So he turned from a tiny spiky haired dog into a spiky haired boy, sitting on the floor.

"I said, have you got eyes in the back of your head?"

[showcase_showdog]

The puppy jumped a bit. "It always surprises me when that happens! I had another boy who could turn into a large orange dog do that, and it's very new to me! I don't have eyes in the back of my head, I'm just very observant."

[rivalthunderbolts]

"Oh, that's Jock. He's my buddy," Jolt explained as if that answered everything. "Pretty observant and quick to catch me!" he said.

[showcase_showdog]

"I'm a guard dog," explained the guard dog. "My job back at home is to guide visitors to the Happy Home Showcase, and I always make sure to guide them in. It wouldn't be right to just let people walk in without at least a greeting."

It would be terrible, some sort of a sin against man and God.

[rivalthunderbolts]

"Well then!" Jolt offered up his hand. "I'm Jolt. Nice to meet you!"

[showcase_showdog]

"My name is Digby. It's a pleasure." He shook Jolt's hand in his own fuzzy one.

[rivalthunderbolts]

"So Digby, what's the Happy Home Showcase?" he asked curiously.

[showcase_showdog]

"The Happy Home Showcase is a special plaza where you can visit the houses of people who are nearby you. If you really like a house, you can save it so that you always visit it, whenever you want. You can wander around and see what sorts of furniture people from the area have, and even put in a special order for most of what you see there. It's really a very wonderful place, with new homes coming in all the time."

[rivalthunderbolts]

"You must say that a lot, to have memorized all that so well," Jolt reasoned.