How It All Goes Down
- Toby doesn't make it far before Senora catches him and brings him back to the pen. At least she doesn't ask, "Who let the dogs out?"
- Back in the Yard, Toby makes friends with a female named Coco.
- Toby and Coco spend their days sniffing poops and tumbling around. Ah, young love. It's like a Taylor Swift song.
- One day, the men bring more dogs to the Yard. One of them looks like Mother—but isn't Mother. And the other looks like Sister—and is Sister.
- Fast is excited that his sister, Sister, is back.
- But Toby is more excited by other things, like a new game in which he tries to play leapfrog with Coco from behind.
- Toby is taken by some men to a cold room with a shiny table.
- Toby falls asleep, and when he wakes up, he's wearing a cone-shaped collar and has an itch between his back legs.
- After the collar is removed, Toby doesn't want to play leapfrog with Coco anymore.
- Life in the Yard returns to normal. The dogs wrestle playfully. Sometimes they fight over bones. And Top Dog remains Top Dog.
- "Right up until the day that Spike arrived" (3.65).
- We know we can't trust the dude, because his name is Spike. If his name were Fluffy, we bet this would all go differently.