Dig Dug's Excursion

I was thinking of a really funny story today. I had a hamster named Dig Dug during childhood. I would clean his cage all by myself even though this aquarium I used was very heavy. I would put him in this hamster ball to roll around while I was cleaning. He had this way of turning it a certain way and so one of the sides of the ball would open and he would escape. This one time I couldn't find him. I searched off and on for hours. We had cats and a dog so I was really concerned. The cat would play with him in the hamster ball batting it around with his paws. He probably let the little bugger out in the first place. So we went out and came back and our dog, Collie Heidi Ho, did not welcome us at the door. We went downstairs and she had found Dig Dug. She was just licking him against the corner of the room. Heidi had made the capture, and Dig Dug had his paws in the air and was silent and still, but very wet. Maybe she was the only DOG U.S. Marshall around me. It is a little funny because Heidi never wanted to breed. She would sit down, but here she seemed so motherly. I think that Dig Dug was very happy to then be placed in his clean cage. Maybe that incident sparked a friendship that we could not see on human TV.