I was hoping for a slow day today. My weekend was busy. My mother took me and Bea out for Halloween to a place filled with pets and their people. I have never seen so many different outfits – some with horns, and wings, others with green heads, white plastic heads, even extra heads. The people were dressed up too. Small people, tall people, rolling people, strolling people – strange made- up people everywhere. As usual, I was the center of attention. “Awww, what a cute little pug” the people would say. I think the word pug must mean stunningly beautiful dog. Bea thinks the people were saying, what a cute little pig, but her ears don't always work so well, and I may have to clean them out, again.
I got my wish. Every dog must have been home sleeping off the weekends parties. Dog tired, just like me. We did get a little surprise at the end of the day. I thought that the visitor was just another dog that forgot to take off his outfit. That was until I saw the look on mother's face.

A lady walked in with a brown-green animal in her arms, wrapped up in towel. “I just saw it get hit by a car. It couldn't get out of the way in time. What should I do with it?” The blank look on mother's face told me that this was not a dog, or a cat in a costume, it was something else. It smelled of sea water, red syrup and dirt. The mixture of smells made me curious and hungry at the same time. Patient Pam wasted no time. “I'll take care of it, I know just what to do.” Patient Pam put the green creature in one of the apartments and proceeded to make arrangements. “It's shell is broken pretty bad” I heard Pam say into the number machine on the wall. “Great, as soon as I'm done I'll bring it right over”, Patient Pam had found a green creature doctor to take care of the green creature. But no sooner did Patient Pam have the problem under control than she got sixteen new problems. “It's laying eggs” howled Dancing Debbie, “cool....there's another one... and another one...oh, I think she squashed that one”. Debbie was giving everyone a running commentary on the back end of the green creature.

Mother chimed in, “Awww, she was probably just crossing the road to find a place to lay her eggs. Poor girl.” At that, Bea even sniffed a note of sympathy. Undeterred, Patient Pam gathered the green creature and all it's round white babies and rode off into the dark night. It's good to know that even the smelly green creatures have someone to look out for them.