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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Koala Moon, a podcast of
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Speaker 1: original children's bedtime stories and meditations designed to make bedtime
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Speaker 1: a dream. I'm so pleased to announce that our favorite
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Speaker 1: doggie duo are back, But before I tell you what
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Speaker 1: they're getting up to, I must first give a big
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Speaker 1: shout out, name drop and mega high five to our
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Speaker 1: newest members of Coco's Club. Thank you very much for
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Speaker 1: supporting us Brothers Holden and Augustus, Maverick and Huxley, Christopher
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Speaker 1: from Nova Scotia, Canada, Tillie Bug in Pennsylvania, and Scarlett
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Speaker 1: and Colton. Enjoy your extra episodes and all the uninterrupted
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Speaker 1: hours of listening and know that the team here in
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Speaker 1: sleep HQ are super grateful for your support.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 1: Let me also so take this moment to remind all
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Speaker 1: of you that your special Christmas treat of the read
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Speaker 1: along Hector and Sunny Book is waiting for you. Just
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Speaker 1: click the link in the show notes. Now, then, what's
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Speaker 1: this story all about?
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Speaker 3: Ah?
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Speaker 1: Yes, Hector and Sonny. It feels like it's been a
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Speaker 1: little minute since we last met up with them, and
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Speaker 1: I for one am thrilled to join them again. Is
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Speaker 1: going to get snoozy and also a little crazy with
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Speaker 1: all the puppy pandemonium. But hopefully you'll be able to
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Speaker 1: imagine everything that's going on, and a big grin will
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Speaker 1: settle on your face as you gently drift off to sleep.
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Speaker 1: So let's start by relaxing back into bed. Feel the
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Speaker 1: pillow under your head and the covers over your body,
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Speaker 1: and let's get ready to join Hector and Sonny as
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Speaker 1: they help their friend Dedy with her new litter of pups.
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Speaker 1: Let's imagine them as they sleep and play and think
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Speaker 1: about all the things they need to do before naptime.
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Speaker 1: Let all other thoughts float out of your mind, leaving
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Speaker 1: just Hector and Sonny and oodles and oodles of poodles.
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Speaker 1: This is Hector and Sonny meet Oodles of Poodles by
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Speaker 1: Susannah McLaughlin. Let's start by getting comfy. Breathe in deep,
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Speaker 1: and breathe out again. Did you have a good day
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Speaker 1: to day? Now it's time to wind down and cuddle
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Speaker 1: up and enjoy some sweet dreams before tomorrow comes. How
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Speaker 1: comfy do you feel? Wriggle deeper into your mattress and
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Speaker 1: snuggle down into the like Hector getting comfy in his
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Speaker 1: dog bed. Wag your imaginary tail a couple of times
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Speaker 1: to get out any last fizzies of energy, and then
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Speaker 1: go as floppy as Sonny's ears, breathing a long, deep breath,
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Speaker 1: and breathe out even longer, deflating and closing your eyes.
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Speaker 1: Let's join Hector and Sonny now. One drizzly afternoon, with
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Speaker 1: the rain drip dripping on the roof, Hector and Sonny
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Speaker 1: sat in the car boot on their way to a playdate.
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Speaker 1: Hector's owner had a good friend who had a dog
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Speaker 1: of their own, and Hector and Sonny would often play
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Speaker 1: with her at the park. Her name was Dedi and
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Speaker 1: she was a tall, elegant poodle with pete colored curls
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Speaker 1: piled up on her head like whipped cream on a Sunday,
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Speaker 1: and curly fluff around her ankles and chest too. Despite
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Speaker 1: her fancy appearance and her being older than them, the
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Speaker 1: three friends hit it off right away. Deede was sweet
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Speaker 1: and kind then the dogs loved lolling around on the
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Speaker 1: grass with her, chattering about her dizzy daydreams. Hector and
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Speaker 1: Sonny hadn't seen Deede for a short while. She hadn't
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Speaker 1: been at the park for a few weeks, and it
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Speaker 1: was for a good reason. Dede had just had a
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Speaker 1: litter of puppies. This rainy afternoon, Hector's owner was visiting
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Speaker 1: his friend and offered to take Hector and Sonny along
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Speaker 1: to see deed in her puppies. They were thrilled excited
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Speaker 1: to see her friend. Sonny was bouncing in the car boot,
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Speaker 1: peeking out of the window from her tippee toes, and
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Speaker 1: Hector was repeatedly asking are there yet. Eventually the car
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Speaker 1: pulled to a stop and Hector's owner turned to them
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Speaker 1: with a chuckle and announced, you can stop bouncing now, Sonny,
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Speaker 1: we're here. The two dogs sat politely whilst he opened
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Speaker 1: a boot, only jumping down when he said so, and
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Speaker 1: then trotted behind him up up the garden path to
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Speaker 1: the red front door. The knocker was made of brass
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Speaker 1: and shaped like a poodle's head. Hector's owner lifted it
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Speaker 1: and knocked, and the door quickly swung open. Whilst the
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Speaker 1: owners were chit chatting, Hector and Sonny squeezed past their
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Speaker 1: legs and padded into the living room, where Deede was
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Speaker 1: curled up near the fire, snuggled up against her belly,
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Speaker 1: was a puddle of tiny, riggly poodle pups. Let's count
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Speaker 1: the poodle pups as we take big, sleepy breads. One
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Speaker 1: poodle pup is stretching out his legs, another is yawning
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Speaker 1: with a scrunched up face. Three poodle pups are snoozing
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Speaker 1: in a pile, and another is chasing his brother's tail.
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Speaker 1: Two more poodle pups are rolling over on their bellies
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Speaker 1: and cuddling their mum. Another two are climbing up on
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Speaker 1: her back, and one more poodle pup turns to look
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Speaker 1: at the new visitors with an excited squeak. Let's count
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Speaker 1: them all.
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Speaker 2: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
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Speaker 1: Ten, eleven, twelve. That's twelve poodle pups. Hector and Sonny's
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Speaker 1: mouths dropped open. There's oodles of poodles, Hector said, oodles
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Speaker 1: of poodles in a sleepy puddle of pups. Deedy carefully
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Speaker 1: got to her feet, ensuring not to step in the
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Speaker 1: puppy puddles around her, and came to greet her friends
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Speaker 1: with a beaming smile. Her whipped cream hairdoo seemed even
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Speaker 1: poofier than usual, and the curls on her tail bobbed
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Speaker 1: as she wagged it back and falls. As she approached,
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Speaker 1: the twelve miniature puppies clumsily got to their feet and
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Speaker 1: trotted after her, brushing against her legs. Hey guys, Dede said,
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Speaker 1: hugging her friends. It's good to see you. Have you
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Speaker 1: come to meet my oodles of poodles? Hector nodded. I've
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Speaker 1: never seen such an oodle of poodles, he said, this is,
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Speaker 1: Dede said, taking a deep breath in. Biebi and Boba,
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Speaker 1: Lulu and Layla, vv and Ceci, Tutu and Toto, Dodo
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Speaker 1: and Dido, Mimi and Margo. Hector and Sonny looked at
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Speaker 1: his shudder in befuddlement. How would they ever remember all
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Speaker 1: of that? Sonny gave Hector a look that said they
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Speaker 1: should try their best. Hello, Biby, Hector said, Hello, Bobo Boba.
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Speaker 1: Dede corrected him with a giggle. Pure get the hang
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Speaker 1: of it, eventually, she said. Then she yawned a huge yawn,
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Speaker 1: so big that it made Hector and Sonny yawn too,
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Speaker 1: even though they had already had their afternoon naps. Excuse me,
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Speaker 1: Dede said, with looking after all my lovely puppies, I
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Speaker 1: barely get a chance for a nap. I'm a little sleepy.
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Speaker 1: Sonny put her poor on Dede's shoulder and said that
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Speaker 1: that just wouldn't do. Everybody needs their nap. Don't worry, Dedi,
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Speaker 1: she said, you go and nap. Hector and I will
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Speaker 1: take care of the puppies for a while. Dede and
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Speaker 1: Sonny looked around to see Hector laying on his back,
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Speaker 1: giggling with the puppies climbing all over his belly and
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Speaker 1: playing in the tufts of hair on his tummy. Dede smiled, okay,
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Speaker 1: she said, but it's nearly nap time for them too.
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Speaker 3: They need to get ready.
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Speaker 1: Sonny shushed her kindly and told her not to worry.
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Speaker 1: She and Hector had it all under control. With a
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Speaker 1: grateful smile, Dede shuffled over to the corner of the
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Speaker 1: room room, flopped into her fluffy bed, and immediately began
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Speaker 1: snoring with sweet little squeaks. Hector rolled over and came
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Speaker 1: and stood next to Sonny. The puppy puddle began to
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Speaker 1: gather around their feet. But it looks like they'd have
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Speaker 1: a lot of energy to burn before naptime, Sonny, he said,
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Speaker 1: maybe we should take them for some exercise. You're right.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately they're not old enough to go for a walk yet,
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Speaker 1: Sonny said, But they're not too young to play. Sonny
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Speaker 1: led Hector and the group of tiny pups through to
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Speaker 1: the dining room, where the floor was made of shiny,
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Speaker 1: slippery wood. She took a few paces his back and
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Speaker 1: ran forwards until she skidded and slid on her bottom
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Speaker 1: from one end of the room.
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Speaker 2: To the other.
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Speaker 1: Hector's ears pricked in excitement as he yelped my turn
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Speaker 1: and slid across the slippery floor. One by one, the
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Speaker 1: puppies followed. Let's count them. There's one sliding poodle pup.
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Speaker 1: It's tiny ears blowing behind him. There's another wagging his
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Speaker 1: tail like a sweeping brush. There's two more sliding poodle
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Speaker 1: pups wriggling and rolling along the floor. There's another three
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Speaker 1: with their tiny pink tongues lolling as they go. There's
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Speaker 1: three slip gliding poodle pups gliding elegantly as can be.
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Speaker 1: There's two more, clumsily scrabbling along the floor.
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Speaker 2: One two, three, four.
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Speaker 3: Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven twelve. That's twelve
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Speaker 3: sliding poodle pups and oodle of sliding poodles. Soon the
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Speaker 3: puppies were.
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Speaker 1: Panting in a heap after running and sliding from one
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Speaker 1: end of the room to the other, over and over.
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Speaker 1: Hector and Sonny looked on with a grin. Their plan
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Speaker 1: worked perfectly. They touched paws in a high five. All
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Speaker 1: that sliding on the floor had made twelve muckey pups.
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Speaker 1: Hector picked up a puppy and looked at his slightly
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Speaker 1: dusty ringlets. These mucky pups knew a bath before naptime, said,
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Speaker 1: being fond of mud and puddles. Hector was an expert
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Speaker 1: on these matters. To the bath we go, said Sonny,
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Speaker 1: leading Hector and the oodle of messy poodles towards the bathroom.
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Speaker 1: Sonny turned on the warm water and let it tumble
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Speaker 1: into the bath. Hector up turned a bottle of bubble
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Speaker 1: bath and thumped on the bottom three times. A splat
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Speaker 1: of bubble bath plocked into the water and began turning
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Speaker 1: into fluffy foam. Hector grinned sheepishly. I like bubbles, he said.
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Speaker 1: Tiny bubbles began to float into the air from the tub,
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Speaker 1: glinting in the warm light. Hector dipped his paw into
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Speaker 1: the foam and held it to his mouth, blowing it
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Speaker 1: over the patient crowd of mucky pups. They all reached
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Speaker 1: up sleepily as the bubbles floated down towards them, popping
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Speaker 1: the bubbles with their teeny tiny claws. When the bath
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Speaker 1: was ready, Sonny turned off the tap and carefully picked
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Speaker 1: up the first pup and placed it in the warm water.
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Speaker 1: That's one bubbly pup. Hector lifted one in each pole
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Speaker 1: and placed two more squirmy puppies into the bar. That's
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Speaker 1: three bubbly pups. Sonny placed two more beside them, and
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Speaker 1: they began to paddle lazily. That's five bubbly pups. Hector
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Speaker 1: added one particularly mucky pup, blowing the dust from the
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Speaker 1: tuft of fur on his head. Six bubbly pups. Sonny
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Speaker 1: added two sister pups into the fizzing foam. Eight bubbly pups.
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Speaker 1: Placed two brother pups into the warm, silky bath water.
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Speaker 1: Ten bubbly pups. Hector took one more puppy in his
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Speaker 1: cupped paws, and Sonny took the other, adding them to
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Speaker 1: the bath to make twelve bubbly pups. Hector and Sonny
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Speaker 1: showed the bubbly pups. How to wash their fur, miming
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Speaker 1: lathering up their hair and scrubbing their armpits, and the
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Speaker 1: little pups played copycat. Soon it was time to take
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Speaker 1: the pups out, so Sonny spread out a warm, fluffy towel.
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Speaker 1: Soon there were twelve soggy poodles flopped down on the tower.
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Speaker 1: Hector took the hair dryer from its basket and turned
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Speaker 1: it on. The noise spooked him for a moment, but
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Speaker 1: he remembered he had poppies to look after and soon
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Speaker 1: got used to it. Hector moved the hair dryer from
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Speaker 1: one pup to another until they poofed up into warm,
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Speaker 1: fluffy balls of fur. Sonny told him he did a
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Speaker 1: fantastic job. Next, it was time to brush their tiny
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Speaker 1: little teeth. Sonny found their twelve tiny toothbrushes in a
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Speaker 1: little cup and held each one to Hector to receive
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Speaker 1: a dollu of gravy flavored toothpaste. There were two purple
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Speaker 1: tiny toothbrushes for Beebi and Boba, a green tiny toothbrush
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Speaker 1: for Lulu, and a turquoise one for Layla, two red
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Speaker 1: tiny toothbrushes for vv and Ceci, A pink tiny toothbrush
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Speaker 1: for Tootu and a blue one for Toto Dinosaur, dotted
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Speaker 1: tiny toothbrushes for Dodo and Di dough, a rainbow toothbrush
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Speaker 1: for Mimi, and a flowery one for Margot. That's twelve
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Speaker 1: tiny toothbrushes for twelve tiny fluffy pups. The sleepy pups
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Speaker 1: brushed their teeth and each took a sip of clean
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Speaker 1: water from their dog bowl. By now they were moving
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Speaker 1: sleepily and slowly, yawning every now and then. Hector and
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Speaker 1: Sonny herded the oodle of sleepy poodles back into the
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Speaker 1: living room, where Dede was dreaming peacefully in the corner.
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Speaker 1: What's left, Johnny, Hector asked, my favorite part? Sonny replied,
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Speaker 1: the bedtime story. You can pick one from the bookshelf.
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Speaker 1: If you like, I can read it. Hector nodded and
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Speaker 1: loped over to the bookshelf. He picked a book with
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Speaker 1: stars and moons stitched on the spine. Sonny sat down
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Speaker 1: on an armchair, opened the book book, and began to read.
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Speaker 1: Once upon a time there was a sea lion named Pizza,
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Speaker 1: though most of his friends would call him Pete. One night,
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Speaker 1: Pete found himself floating under a sky so starry and
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Speaker 1: clear that he couldn't see where the sea ended and
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Speaker 1: the sky began. Hector looked at the puddle of pups
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Speaker 1: listening on the fluffy rug. One by one, their heads
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Speaker 1: began to bob. Pete lay on his back in a
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Speaker 1: gently bobbing waves and imagined he wasn't a sea lion,
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Speaker 1: but a space lion, floating through space with not a
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Speaker 1: care in the world. He imagined that space was like
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Speaker 1: the sea with creatures up there.
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Speaker 3: Just like down here.
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Speaker 1: Jellyfish would waft and wiggle through the galaxy with their
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Speaker 1: long tendrils floating behind them. Dolphins would leap and dive
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Speaker 1: through the Milky Way, and turtles would all bit planets
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Speaker 1: swimming through space with their slowly flapping fins, and space
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Speaker 1: lions like Pete would lay on their backs counting the stars.
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Speaker 1: Sonny stopped reading before she had even finished the first page.
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Speaker 1: The sleepy pups had drifted off to sleep. Mimi and
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Speaker 1: Beebe were snoring on their bellies, heads resting on one another.
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Speaker 1: That's two snoozing poodles. Lulu and Tutu were holding pools
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Speaker 1: as they dreamt of space lions and space turtles. That's
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Speaker 1: four snoozing poodles. Vv was curled in a little ball
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Speaker 1: so tightly she looked like a little white pompong. That's
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Speaker 1: five snoozing poodles. Bulba and Layla's tongues were lolling as
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Speaker 1: they snoozed at the foot of the sofa. That's seven
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Speaker 1: snoozing poodles. Dodo and Margot were sprawled with their legs wide,
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Speaker 1: snoring gently. That's nine snoozing poodles. And Boba had his
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Speaker 1: little paws tucked neatly away under him like a bread loaf.
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Speaker 1: Ten snoozing poodles. Dido was curled up to Hector's left
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Speaker 1: and Toto was curled up on his right. Twelve snoozing poodles.
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Speaker 1: Hector's eyes were closed and his chin had lowered onto
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Speaker 1: his paws. One snoring golden retriever. Counting all of those
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Speaker 1: dogs had made Sunny tired. She blinked, sat back in
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Speaker 1: her chair and slowly allowed her heavy eyes to close
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Speaker 1: and the book to drop to her stomach as she
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Speaker 1: became one sleeping cocker spaniel. Not long later, Deedy opened
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Speaker 1: her eyes and stretched. Refreshed from her afternoon nap, she blinked,
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Speaker 1: surprised to not be surrounded by her wriggling, tickling oodles
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Speaker 1: of poodles. She looked up to see a puddle of
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Speaker 1: softly snoring poodle pups cuddling with her good friends Hector
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Speaker 1: and Sonny. She padded over, wrapped her paws around her babies,
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Speaker 1: and drifted back to sleep.
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Speaker 3: Fat will you with