Blacktail Deer Plateau bonecracker

Osprey did not yet know about rhetorical questions, so when Dante asked, she pointed a sopping paw at her family bunched together beneath the tree. "Dey don't!" she crowed, then licked her lips noisily and looked back at her new playmate.

When he bent down, she moved eagerly toward him, head nodding rapidly in response to his question. "I like secwets!" she stage-whispered to him. When prompted to guess why the rain could be a wolf's best friend, the puppy gave him a nonplussed look, then screwed up one eye and stuck her tongue between her teeth. "'Cause... puddalls?" was her eventual, drawling answer, meaning puddles.