This is StoryQuest. Today's story is...

Space Pug and the Unicorns by law.

Space Pug and the Unicorn.

Puddles was a pug who lived on a planet called Dog Mania.

You haven't heard of Dogmania?

It's in our solar system, tucked away just behind Jupiter.

And the only reason you probably haven't heard of it is that its orbit is just so that it's

always concealed in the shadows.

It's a shame we haven't visited Dogmania because it's full of, well, dogs, as you probably

guessed.

But these are technically space dogs. They can talk and have built houses and fly rockets and all sorts of other cool stuff.

And they're not the only creatures on the planet. Dog mania is home to the sort of animals

that you only hear about in fairy stories, griffins, dragons, unicorns, things like that, you know.

It's a pretty magical place.

There's a whole story, actually, about how the magical creatures got to the planet, basically.

Several millennia ago, they got fed up with humans trying to capture, ride or kill them,

and so spirited themselves away to their new home in the shadow of Jupiter, but I'll tell you about that another time, all right?

So, that's dog mania. Sounds pretty cool, doesn't it?

Well, one of the dogs in our story thought that he was extra cool.

But actually, he was kind of extra annoying.

He was a pug. Sorry, I mean, pug. And his name was Puddles. Puddles was only small.

Well, you know what pugs are like and despite being a space pug, he looked pretty much the same as an

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