Muddle Over Puddles: Lost and found?

Pari suggests that Puddles could be Jill’s lost puppy but her mother doesn’t buy that one.

Story so far: Pari and her best friend, Diya, come up with an idea to save Puddles. Does the plan work?

Diya was the class topper, though some jealous children said that was because she was the class teacher’s niece. Pari knew that wasn’t true. Diya topped every class, even when her aunt wasn’t their class teacher. So Pari expected Diya to be intelligent enough to understand.

“Puppies only make a noise when they are hungry and without their mother,” said Pari. “With Jill around, Puddles will have a mother and milk. So she will not howl.”

“But Pari,” said Diya, “I’ve read when wild animals lose their babies, they come looking for them. They can sniff them out. Do you think mama Jackal will catch Puddles’ trail and come to our door at night?”

“Puddles isn’t a jackal!” screamed Pari.

“You told me in class today that Puddles may have been abandoned by her mother, and that a jackal might have adopted her,’ replied Diya. “Which may have been how she might have learnt to howl. What if the foster mama comes looking for her?”

“How will she know where she is, Diya? I bathed Puddles with my own shampoo. She smells like a girl, not a jackal. And for three days no mama jackal has come to our house!”