>ah thats much better >after that shower you're feeling much cleaner and greatly de-stressed >you towel off and put on your bathrobe >before leaving the bathroom you take a quick look up the skylight to see if your peeping tom is still there >surprisingly enough he's gone >with that you unlock the door and swagger out into the living with all the confidence you can muster >but you demeanor is brutally shattered by the sight that greets you >baily is kneeling on the couch with her face pressed into a pillow, butt in the air and a horrified expression on her face >coco is crouched behind bailey with her snout pressed firmly and tightly under the cats tail and a similarly horrified expression on her face >you 3 share a few moments of silence before you have to cover your mouth to prevent your sudden mad giggling from being heard >you fail miserably >coco and bailey seem to calm down when they realize you're amused instead of mad but they don't move an inch from their compromising position >coco is the first to break the silence on your pets side with 3 loud sniffs against baileys bottom >baileys horrified expression comes back with a vengeance "Coco stop that you dumb dog!" >bailey pushes coco away with her feet and covers her butt by sitting down on it "Bailey language, I don't want to hear any speciesism in this house, especially against the members of it" >her ear flatten again "Sorry" "Apologize to coco not me" >bailey rolls her eyes and looks over at coco "Sorry for calling you a dumb dog coco" >coco gives bailey a scratch behind her ears "It's okay bailey, I know you didn't mean it" >bailey looks miffed at cocos obvious sucking up >you wait for them to explain themselves >they just sit there and look at you >you clear your throat "So what were you girls up to just now? I thought cats and dogs weren't supposed to get along, I didn-" >bailey lets out a loud aha and points her finger at you "Cats and dogs hating each other is a speciesist and untrue stereotype perpetuated by old slapstick cartoons" >she crosses her arms and smirks like she just won a great victory "I think you owe us both an apology" >you have to smirk and chuckle at her antics >you walk over scratch their heads "I'm real sorry girls, can you ever forgive" >coco immediately begins nodding her head vigorously while bailey makes a show of thinking it over "I guess I can, but don't ever let it happen again" "Oh don't worry I've learned my lesson" >with that out of the way you move on over to the fridge >you suppose breakfast is long overd- "Hey wait a second, don't change the subject, what were you 2 just doing?" >you turn around just in time to see them deflate from their hopes of not having to explain this being crushed >you cross your arms and wait for whoevers the first one to speak up >turns out to be bailey "Uh well you see..., I wanted to pay coco back for helping me clean myself so..." >bailey hides her face behind the armrest of the couch "So you let her smell your butt?" >bailey points at coco while hiding herself "It's what she asked for" >you turn your attention to coco who looks very nervous at the moment >you hold your silence for a few moments as the pressure gets to her "What? You can learn a lot about a person from how their butthole smells" >she seems to realize how dumb that explanation sounds as toward the end it turns into a whisper "Oh really? So what did you learn about her?" >she brings up her finger as if she going to launch into a long explanation but it instead trails off into a long uhhhhhhhhhhhh >then she perks up as she seems to get an idea "I learned that bailey is deep down a very nice person" >coco seems very pleased with herself for that save >but you've had enough embarrassing your pets for today >you give coco a nod of acceptance and go back to the fridge >your not in the mood for a fancy breakfast so you just take the half pack of wieners left over from last night and throw them into a pot of water and wait for it to boil >your food situation is getting pretty dire >but you also haven't gotten any of the stuff taking care of a pair of pets requires >and you're not exactly made of money right now >you planned on going out to town to pick up some stuff but it becomes obvious you can't get everything you need right now >you're going to have to make some tough choices