Stolen!

Bit of a funny story for you with a happy ending!
My dear friend, who lives in an isolated cottage, has been caring for her dogs litter of puppies for the last five weeks. There are six of them, already up to lots of mischief.
But this morning she messaged me “two of the puppies have been stolen!”
Well as you can imagine Rob and I were distraught, imagining that her house had been broken in to, and that they’d been stolen by a puppy farming gang who would be back for the rest.
We paced about for several hours unable to get through on the phone.
Then finally she rang back.
“Well there were only four puppies, I searched everywhere and they weren’t there! So I phoned 999 and the squad car came straight over, and the dog warden. We all searched the house and no sign of two puppies. The police were mystified as the doors had been locked, , but the puppies were gone. They had to go off to another call, and as my neighbour was leaving she told me to go and sit with my remaining puppies and cheer myself up. I did, and they all came tumbling out of their house, one two three four…five … six!! Two of them had hidden themselves away somehow and fallen asleep through all the uproar!!”
You can imagine the relief! We all had a good laugh and then she had to hang up and phone the police to apologise!
But alls well that ends well and apparently the police were very understanding and came back for a cuddle with the two miscreants!
Cartoon by Rob.