The collie sauntered briskly down the sidewalks, nose to the ground. He was on the trail of his young master, John. He glanced back to see if the others were following close.

She padded in after Timber as well and perked up her floppy ears and siffed the air for Johns scent while wagging her wolvish tail. She glanced around for John and waited as well for Aidan and perhapes Koren if he had decided to come.

"He's this way!" Timber barked excitedly when he saw Shimmer was with him. He again took up the trail until he came to the town square. There were an unusually large amount of people, dogs, and cats there. Unkown to Timber, it was a drive to find homes for cats and dogs. And John had brought a box of kittens to give away after one of their cats had a large litter. "There, I see him!" Timber barked again and dashed through the crowd to greet his master.

John laughed and patted the collie roughly on the head, "Where'd you come from, Timber?" He smiled broadly before turning his attention back to other people.

Timber sniffed at the box of kittens at John's feet. There were seven in all! The largest was tan with almost mahogony colored stripes. Another was calico with a lot of black. There was a black one with silver ear tips and the rest were tan. "Hey, Shimmer." he whispered, "Wanna take some back to the ranch? I don't think Genavive likes that all her kittens are gone."

Shimmer ran after Timber excitedly surprised by the large amount of cats and dogs. She stopped and looked up at John yipping a greeting. She then glanced to Timber then the kittens. "Yeah your right. Genavive wouldent be happy at all. She might try and attack us again if all her kittens are missing." She says remembering the incident from when they were younger.

John paused a moment from his work to greet Shimmer as well. His expression was beaming with joy at seeing her, for last he heard, Shimmer had been lost! It meant quite a bit to them all to have Shimmer back after the others had been slain. After giving her a few pats on the head, he returned to speaking with prospective pet adopters.

Timber grinned, looking from kitten to kitten. "Ha, I remember when we got attacked! Wow, that was when you first came to the Ranch." he looked at her with a smile now before turning back to the kittens. "Hhmm, I think four would be good to take back... seven is just too many. Plus, all these happy-looking people are taking cats and dogs home too. They can take the other three kittens." Timber pointed out.

The mostly black and calico kitten scrambled up so that her front paws rested over the edge of the box, "Take me, take me! I wanna see mommy again!" she cried out piteously. The largest of the kittens looked up hopefully at the two canids, but didn't say anything. The silver eared kitten began to bat at the smallest tan kitten, and the two began to play fight.

Timber picked up the calico kitten by the scruff and set her down, "Ok, you can go with us. And... He reached in and picked up the biggest kitten. You too. Which ones do you want to take?" he questioned Shimmer. The calico kitten began to purr and rub against them both.

John didn't realize yet what was going on.

The hybrid sauntered in and approached the two by the box. He tried to circle around John so the teen didn't see him; Aidan didn't want too much attention. He peered into the box, "Oh, I'll help!" he said gleefully and reached in to pick out the second largest kitten.

Shimmer yipped happily when John pet her then she heared Timber and smiled as well. "Yeah your right. It was when I first came to the ranch. And yeah the other three kittens could be taken by these happy people." She then watched Timber choose two and saw Aidan choose one so shed choose the last. She gently lifted the smallest one out of the box disrupting the playfighting between the kittens. "This one." She said looking at the tan kitten. "Ok we have four lets go." She said with a smile to Timber and Aidan.

Timber grinned and picked up the big kitten. He hesitated then, looking at the calico kitten. Setting the big kitten down, he picked up the smaller calico one and flung her onto his back. "Hang on!" she dug her claws in, hanging on for dear life. Timber then picked up the big one and began to run.

John looked down to see his pets making off with some kittens, "Timber! No, stop" he shouted out. Timber turned his head back and pasted his ears down, "Shimmer, Aidan, hurry!" He didn't like disobeying his young master, but he thought Genavive deserved to have some kittens back. Besides, it wasn't like they were taking all of them. He headed for the the Barn.

The silver-eared kitten sat back, and looked blinkingly up at Shimmer. Just then a sibling bit her tail and she whirled around and started a new play-fight session with another sister. The second largest kitten began to meow piteously and look up at Aidan with huge, green eyes. This was a very noisy kitten.

The small one had a funny looking face; it looked like her eyes were too large for her tiny face. But she was a very sweet and outgoing kitten.

Shimmer also thought Genivive deserved some kittens back and didnt like disobeying John either but knew it had to be done to get the kittens to Genivive. She lifted up the tiny kitten and darted off hopeing Aidan would make it out witht he forth one befor John stopped him. She ran for the barm as well.

He snatched up the kitten he plucked from the box. Glancing back at John only once, he makes a quick dash for the Barn with his ears pasted back and his tail low.