oooooooowwwhhhhhooooooommmmpph! Sugar Dog! Dat you! Whooooosh ya, there, girl, land right on my tummy! Where you been, girl? ( And where I been?) Just you gimme some of that puppy spit, there, girl, and then you needs to go find you a warm spot by the chimbley for a while. Just you curl up there and let these good folks stroke yer ears for a spell. Scratch your chin too, if you need it. We uz had these long, hard rows to hoe, huh? But we is at the water barrel now, ain't we?