8: The Park

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The next day, the dogs of Loud Street were taken to the park with their humans. Lincoln brought his Clyde raccoon stuffie.

RITA: Okay Lincoln, we're here, but promise you'll share Clyde with the other dogs?

Lincoln promised.

EMMA: Lori, we're here!

Emma let Lori off her leash.

Lincoln walked to Lori and dropped Clyde in front of her. Lori seemed to be disgusted by the raccoon, and lifted her leg to tinkle on him. Lincoln quickly grabbed Clyde, and Lori did not tinkle on him.

Courtney let Luan off her leash.

COURTNEY: Luan, here is the place you can be mischievous. Go on.

Luan walked around, thinking about the next prank she'd play.

Duncan let Lucy off her leash.

DUNCAN: Lucy, go play with the other dogs.

LUCY: Sigh.

Bridgette let Lana off her leash.

BRIDGETTE: (encouraging) Lana, there's dirt everywhere!

Lana instantly jumped and pranced all around.

Geoff let Lola off her leash.

GEOFF: Lola, I promise you'll have a bath when we get home!

Lola scoffed.

Lindsay let Leni off her leash.

LINDSAY: Isn't this totes amazing, Leni?

Leni nodded.

Tyler let Lynn off her leash.

TYLER: Okay Lynn... fetch!

Tyler threw a frisbee for Lynn, and she ran to catch it midair.

Beth let Lisa off her leash.

BETH: Lisa, me and Harold will be doing some maths. I'm positive you'll have fun!

LISA: ..."positive"...

But on the other side of the fence walked along stray dogs, who spent their whole life surviving off what they could protecting themselves from dogcatchers.

Across the fence came Bobby (a Xoloitzcuintli), Benny (a Hungarian Mudi), Rocky (a beagle), Chaz (a basset hound), Francisco (an Italian greyhound), Skippy (a Carpathian shepherd), Winston (a Swedish Elkhound) and David (a Chinese Crested), and Ronnie Ann (a German shepherd-basenji mutt).

The Loud Street dogs scented them, and came running to see them and talk to them through the fence. As Luan would say, they felt "puppy love" for them.

Bobby came to Lori.

BOBBY: Lori, is that you?

LORI: I'm here, Bubu Bear. Life has been so empty without you!

BOBBY: I know babe.

LORI: I can't begin to imagine if my humans actually moved back to Vermont!

BOBBY: D-Do they want to leave the country or something?

LORI: Come with me and we'll literally be together forever.

Benny came to Luan.

LUAN: Benny!

BENNY: Luan! Szívem! I missed you.

LUAN: Me and my human went to a dog show the other day.

BENNY: Király!

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