title: A Story for Isabel: sure to be your pup's favorite bedtime tale
author:  Wewer Keohane 
description: Wewer Keohane is an artist and author with a deep love of animals. This is her first book of fiction. She has written several books on dreams and art, including Artful Dreamer. She lives in Colorado with her husband, Steve, their rescue dog Isabel and as many cats as they can tolerate.
zlib_text: Chapter One
  Plans For a Holiday
   
  �Snubby!� called a cross voice. �SNUBBY! Didn�t I tell you to tie
  Loony up?�
  Snubby came flying downstairs to his aunt. �Oh, Aunt Susan, I did!
  Has he got loose again? Oh, I say - did he make all that mess in the
  hall?�
  The black spaniel sat in the middle of a few sheets of torn-up
  newspaper, his tongue hanging out. He looked exactly as if he was
  grinning.
  �That�s your uncle�s morning newspaper,� said his aunt. �He
  hasn�t even read it yet. Snubby, you know that we�re very rushed
  trying to get everything done before we leave today. I really cannot
  have Loony rushing about loose.�
  ‘I�ll shut Loony into my room, Mother,� said Diana, coming up.
  �And I�ll lock the door and put the key in my pocket. Then Loony
  will be safe.�
  �Well, nothing else in your room will be safe!� said Mrs Lynton. ‘Do
  what you like with him - but keep him out of my way this morning!
  We shall never get off this afternoon, your father and I.�
  The Lyntons were going to America for a few