How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.
In a dog's world, only three states existed: "now," "in a while," and "forever." If someone left, he was gone "forever," and when he returned they rejoiced as much as if he were back from the dead precisely because he'd been gone "forever.
Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
Better watch out said a second voice from somewhere under the Beetle. Don't park those two kraut cars too close together; it's springtime, and they might decide to mate. then Charlie'll be stuck with a garage full of little orange safety cones