Blacktail Deer Plateau boys can play with dolls too

Pura is discovering digging.. :o And tries to build a house! Power-playing Kisu slightly.

A light rain was falling on Blacktail Deer Plateau. It was the sort of day meant for indoor activity, but Pura Virtúte had no concept of 'bad' weather, and the den was quickly becoming much to small for three adults and four lively pups. If anything, rain was the best kind of weather there was - it made the ground soft and squishy, and the smell of earth became overwhelmingly strong.

After hours of whining and complaining, his frustrated guardians had finally agreed to let him experience the drizzle - accompanied, of course, by an unwilling adult. Kisu drew the short straw, and dropped his squealing, over-excited son a foot beyond the mouth of the den whilst he rested with half his body exposed to the element. A hundred footfalls had turned the entrance of the den to mush - Pura took great delight in rolling around in it, and it wasn't long before every inch of him was brown instead of grey.

The more he flailed, the deeper his pit became. It was only a shallow bowl, really, and probably wouldn't make it far beyond that, but to Pura it was the grandest fortress. He rolled onto all fours and began scrabbling at the earth, panting happily as he flung dirt in all directions.