Vanessa and Flossie Show How It's Done

         

   The problem: Nightly alfresco dining in neighborhood backyard gardens.  So far, no one had even caught a glimpse of the diner.  So, the Milltown cop shop brought in a pair of expert detectives, known far and wide to always catch their "man."
 

           One was Capt. Vanessa Stein, a stone-cold owl, small but hard and wise. Who else? 

Can you spot her? Most can't! She's undercover here!

To assist there was Det. Flossie Henley, who only looks soft!

Det. Henley has a fantastic record of arrests.

That yellow fuzz fools 'em every time!

Now you see her, now you don't! 

They never see her coming, until it's too late.

            After a whole lot of hanging around in various vegetable gardens at night, bored and cold, and a lot of mistaken arrests of cats and little people, who may have actually been contributing to the problem, Vanessa and Flossie solved the case. 

            Usually at around 2AM, Larry, an itinerant local Squatch was helping himself to homegrown tomatoes, raw garlic, kale, zucchini, the whole bit. He was leaving gardens in a shambles of uprooted stalks and huge footprints. 

            Yeah, it was this guy. How is it possible that no one saw him, until Flossie and Vanessa sat around and put in the hours? Hard to say. I mean, look at him! He's the size of two steers together.

            "People sleep too much," said Capt. Stein. "We don't sleep. Sleep is for the weak."

            Flossie just waved a hand and shook her head. On no planet would Det. Henley be considered weak, floof aside.

            Larry's hang-up was that he had been convinced that he should eat only vegan food, and it turned him bad. Obviously.  (I blame YouTube.com.)

            He, Larry, was given a choice. Stomp on back to the Great Forest or work for the city of Milltown, as a trash collector. 

            Larry chose to wander back to the woods! That was a very wise move on Larry's part. Good "man," Larry.

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The End