Welcome to Makeup, the kids' bedtime stories podcast. Get ready to listen to fun and non-scary stories

that I make up on the fly without preparing. I tell these stories to my five-year-old son as part of his

bedtime routine. Thanks for listening. Tonight's Make-Up stories are request from a listener

who asked for me to make up a story

about her dog named Lucky, who has spots, and also we're going to include in this story

a kitty cat, eight-year-old girl, who we're going to call Dolly, and we're also going to add to the story a cow and a lion.

Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was an eight-year-old girl whose name was Dolly.

Dolly lived in an apartment, and she had a bedroom, and most nights she had a special somebody

sleep in her bedroom with her, yet she wasn't sleeping all alone.

The buddy who slept in a bedroom with her was really a doggie.

And this doggy was spotted because it had spots all over.

And Dolly liked to call her doggy lucky, because Lucky the Doggy was always so lucky.

And Lucky the Doggy was also so fast. It could even beat the fastest eight-year-old in the whole world in a race. And sometimes, Lucky the Doggy could even beat grownups in races,

even if grown-ups tried to race their fastest and went speed fast.

Well, one day, Dolly woke up, and during breakfast, her mama told her that her doggy named Lucky had to go live on a farm.

And that made Dolly very sad, because Lucky used to escape a lot of times and Dolly didn't want to

have to say goodbye to Lucky for good. And so, Dolly started to cry and she hugged Lucky and she said,

I'll miss you so much. And then Dolly asked her mama, Mama, do we really have to let her go?

And Dolly's mama said yes, because she has an important job to do on a farm. And Dolly asked her mom, what's the job? And her mom said that she couldn't tell her, but there might have something to do with cows and a lion.

And so, Dolly asked if she could visit her doggy lucky on the farm, and her mom said she wasn't sure. Well, the next day, the doggy left, and Dolly left her doggy a special teddy bear to take with him and also a ball that she used to throw and that Dolly would try to get and fetch and bring back.

So the doggy, lucky, went in a car. The next day... I'll tell you, bud.

The next day, Dolly was all alone at home, and she was trying to think of what to do,

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