It was night in the small town of connecticut and everyone that lived in a street ,known to all the dogs as Snob Hill, were asleep...well, everyone except the residents of one house a little way down the hill...

"Whoa!" Dash yelped as he skidded into a wall. Dash, Coco, Bandit and Travis were in Dashes house playing tag in the sitting room.

"C'mon Travis, you can run faster than that!" Bandit the doberman/duchsund mocked. Travis a young schnauzer darted along behind Bandit, puffing.

"Easy for you to say, you're almost three times my size!" He panted. Travis' brother Coco was slowing down. Travis ran towards him but Coco skilfully leapt against the wall and jumped off it, narrowly avoiding Travis. "No fair!" Travis puffed as he collapsed to the floor.

"That's nothing," Dash said. "Watch this. He did the same thing as Coco but jumped higher. The other three dogs all cheered for him. Suddenly-

"Dash! Look what you've done!" A young woman, probably about 20-25 walked into the room with her hand over her mouth. With her other arm she pointed to the wall where Dash had jumped off. Dash turned around and noticed that he'd accidentally ripped the wallpaper off the wall where he'd jumped. Dash hung his head and started whimpering. "I think that you should all go to sleep, because that's what I'm doing. She stomped up the stairs into the guest room while Bandit and the others went into Dashes favourite room which he called the couch room. It was a smal room with ,of course, a couch, a small side table, a radio in the centre of the room on another table and a dog basket. Dash lay down on the couch with his head rested on one of the arms. Bandit did the same on the other side and Coco and Travis curled up in the dog basket. The four dogs shut their eyes and tried to go to sleep. Then, Coco spoke.

"Ya know, there's lots of things we can do beside going to sleep," He said.

"Like what?" Dash asked, opening one of his eyes.

"Well..." Coco got out of the basket and nudged Travis to get him out, too." Follow me," He gestured with his head to the staircase. The fou dogs went up and followed Coco into an unoccupied bedroom where Dashes two adult owners usually slept.

"Why did you grag us up here?" Bandit asked.

"Because there's pillows in here. And with pillows you can do..." Coco jumped up onto the bed and picked up a pillow in his jaws. He them threw it at Travis and knocked him over. "With pillows you can do PILLOWFIGHTS!" Coco yelled. He brabbed another pillow and threw it at Bandit. Bandit caught it....Dash jumped onto the bed and got his own pillow. He swung it at Coco and knocked him off the bed. Travis and bandit started throwing pillows at eachother. "Hey how 'bout you three against me," Coco suggested. The toher three exchanged glances and nodded.

"This is gonna be easy!" Travis said. Coco hopped on the bed and threw his pillow. It his Bandit in his ribs. He threw one back and missed.

"Missed by a mile!" Coco taunted. Dash, Bandit and Travis threw their three pillows at the same time. They landed in a pile on top of Coco. Coco grabbed on and aimed for Dash. Dash ducked just in time but then the pillow hit Bandit, who was behind him. Bandit quickly grabbed the pillow. But at the same time, Travis grabbed it. Bandit picked the pillow up but Travis still clung onto it. bandit threw the pillow and Travis held on tightly. He crashed right into Coco,knocking him over. "Aw, snap. Nice one, Shortstack," Coco said getting up and smoothing his fur down.

"Thanks," Travis said, obviously still a bit shaken. The four dogs started jumping up and down on the bed, hitting eachother with their pillows. Feathers started flying out of the pillows, but the gang was having too much fun to notice. Then-

"DASH!"

The gang stopped fighting and turned towards the door. The dogsitter was standing there, looking really angry. "Bad dog, get down stairs now, and take your friends with you," She said, sternly. Dash drooped downstairs with the others.

"Let's try and go to sleep," Dash yawned. He shut his eyes but it wasn't long before-

"Psst, Dash!"

Dash opened one of his eyes. "Dash," Bandit whispered.

"What is it?" Dash mumbled.

"I'm hungry. Do you have any food?"

"Um- I don't, but I know somewhere where there's a bunch of food!" Dash sprung up. Coco pushed Travis out of the basket and the four dogs, lead by Dash, went into the kitchen."We'll have to be really quiet," Dash whispered.  Dash walked over to the fridge and stood on his hind legs trying to reach the handle. he couldn't reach. "Hey Bandit, gimme a paw, here," Dash gestured with his head for Bandit to help. bandit stood on his hind legs and pulled the handle down with his jaws, the fridge swung open, almost knocking Bandit over. The four dogs stared in awe at the large amount of food in there. There was a jelly (or geleton), a pizza, celery, a chicken, a bowl of fruit, a can of whipped cream, a bowl of salad and more. But right at the top of the fridge there was a huge chocolate cake! "Dog pile!" Dash ordered. Dash got on top of Bandit and Coco climbed on top of Dash and Travis climbed to the top.

"Quick, Travis, the cake!" Bandit called up. Suddenly Bandit lost his footing and the gang crashed to the floor. Travis clung on to the top of the fridge, whimpering.

"Help!" He panicked, trying his best not to look down. Bandit jumped up and tried to reach travis, but failed. Travis scrabbled at the ledge he was hanging off and managed to grabed the plate that the cake was on, but then he realised he wasn't holding on to the ledge and he fell.He skillfully managed toget the cake below him in mid-air and it broke his fall. Suddenly, the lights flickered on and a loud gasp echoed in the kitchen It was the dog sitter, and she didn't really look so happy. The dogs looked at the mess they'd made. When Travis landed into the cake it made large amounts of frosting go all over the place. Travis clambered out of the cake and started licking his chops. Then he noticed the woman was in the room. "Um...my compliments to the chef?" Travis said randomly, even though the woman couldn't understand him.

"Ugh, if your owners found out about this they wouldn't let me dog-sit again!" The woman scolded.

"I think we could live with that," Coco joked,the others chuckled.

"Just go back to your beds," The woman said as she grabbed a mop and started wiping the floor. The gang went back into the couch room and back into their sleeping spots.

"Let's really try this time," Dash sighed. He shut his eyes and soon the gang was asleep. The woman finished mopping and left the mop and bucket she was using in the corner of the kitchen. The woman then went upstairs and went to sleep. Then, about half and hour later, the mop fell out of the bucket and clattered on the floor. The woman didn't hear it because she was fast asleep, but the dogs heard it. The four dogs woke up with a start.

"Did you hear that?" Bandit asked the others.

"It sounded like a...robber?" Coco suggested. ash sprung up.

"We'd better go find out. I've always wanted to be a police dog," The schnauzer/king charles spaniel mix added as he silently crept towards the kitchen. Dash poked his head through the open door of the kitchen. He saw the mop. He was about to speak when suddenly, Coco leapt in front of him, into the kitchen.

"Who's there. Come out with your paws...or hands...whatever you have-up!" Coco growled as he frantically scanned the kitchen for movement. He spotted the mop and leapt towards it. He started attacking th emop, unaware of what it was.

"And I thought you were dumb," Bandit gestured at Travis.

"Hey!" Travis snarled. he leapt at Bandit and the two dogs stated attacking eachother. Dash leapt in between them.

"Hold everything. We've got to stop Coco before he makes another mess," Dash said. Bandit and Travis stopped fighting and nodded at Dash. they ran towards Coco, but they were too late. Coco nudged the bucket, that was still full of water, with one of his paws and it tipped over, the water spilled out of the bucket and got all over Coco...and the floor. Bandit and Dash skidded to a halt, but Travis wasn't quick enough. He skidded on the wet floor and crashed into a cupboard door underneath one of the kitchen counters, causing the door to swing open. A bunch of kitchen equipment fell out of the cupboard on top of Travis.

"Dash, what are you and your friends doing!?"

The four dogs turned towards the door. Leon, Dashes owner was standing there with his wife and the two kids, who were both staring in awe. Then the dog sitter came rushing to the scene aswell.

"I am so sorry. I thought they were asleep!" She pleaded. Dash hung his head in shame.

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The next morning, Dash and the gng woke up in the couch room. they'd fallen asleep while