"Hey, Dad, there was something we've wanted to know." Scruffy said.

"What's that, kiddo?" Patch smiled to his son.

"How did Aunt Danielle meet Uncle Copper?" Dot and Scruffy asked together. "Jinx!"

Patch chuckled to that as Colette came by with a smile. "That's a good question... Well, they mostly came closer together by the time we were introduced to a fox."

"A fox?" Dot and Scruffy asked, but not doing the jinx thing this time like Akito and Estelle often did with each other.

"I'm sure your Aunt Danielle's told ya about a fox named 'Tod' that became our friends." Patch replied.

"Ohh, yeah, Uncle Tod." Scruffy smiled.

"It was a long time ago..." Patch replied.

"Yay, story!" Dot cheered.

"What story?" Colette asked.

"How Danielle met Copper." Patch reminded.

"Oh, yeah..." Colette chuckled. "That's a good one."

"Come on, tell it." Scruffy smiled.

"Well... Okay..." Patch smiled back. "It was not too long after my adoption..."

Flashback

"You can sleep on the foot of my bed," Atticus pointed to his bed. "Or if you want, you can have your own basket."

"I do like my own space since I've had so many brothers and sisters, but I think I should sleep with you..." Patch decided.

"If that's your decision." Atticus smiled.

Patch hopped up on the foot of the bed and curled up on it. "This is cozy."

"Just remember, I get the sheets." Atticus smirked.

"You can have them." Patch laughed.

"Anyway, good night." Atticus smirked.

Patch chuckled as he then got comfortable.

Atticus then climbed into bed with him to get some sleep. "We got a long while until I go back to school."

"Yes!" Patch cheered before sleeping.

Atticus yawned. "I'll let you see Scamp and the others tomorrow..."

"Thanks, Atticus." Patch yawned back.

Atticus smiled as he then fell asleep.

Scruffy and Dot looked bored so far.

"Wait for it..." Patch told his children.

The next day, Atticus and Patch were on their way to see Cherry, but she was visiting James and Elizabeth to help Mo with moving into her new home and helping her get settled in.

"What's going on?" Patch asked.

"Oh..." Atticus put his hand to his face with a nervous smile. "My girlfriend is moving in."

"Girlfriend?" Patch smirked.

"Her name's Mo..." Atticus smiled sheepishly. "She used to live on the streets with her dog, but she's now adopted by Cherry's family..."

"Awesome." Patch smiled.

In the backyard, Angel was with Scamp, Colette, Danielle, and Annette. Patch came into the backyard and saw other puppies with a smile, but he then stopped as he saw one of the cocker spaniel triplets which made him feel stuck as he felt something deep within himself he had never felt before.

"Dad, this is more sounding like how you and Mom met." Scruffy's voice said.

"I'll skip ahead a little..." Patch's voice replied.

"Thank you." Dot and Scruffy's voices said.

Patch smiled and was excited to meet other dogs in the neighborhood as he got settled into the Fudo house. Now he had his own space, to watch TV, to get food, and sleep peacefully without having a bunch of brothers and sisters who would ruin it for him, especially with Rolly during meal times. And where he would be able to meet new dogs without being stampeded by his siblings. Patch smiled as he met with Colette, Danielle, Annette, Angel, and Scamp. They decided to hang out in the backyard while Atticus and Mo would visit each other and have some privacy. They all wondered what to do until they heard other dogs barking and a mother fox was running with her baby in her mouth.

"What's going on?" Collette asked.

"That mother is being chased." Annette frowned.

"Ooh, I love a good chase!" Danielle beamed.

"Danielle, this looks serious." Patch told her.

"Oh... Well, I still love a good chase." Danielle shrugged innocently.

"We better go help her." Patch said.

Angel poked her head through the doggy door. "Mo, we're going out for a bit." she then told her mistress.

"Okay, be careful." Mo said as she read a book with Atticus.

Angel nodded and soon left with the others to go probably follow mother fox. Danielle seemed to get lost on the way however and went to a different area as the mother fox looked around until she left her baby and looked sad for him. The mother fox heard the dog barking getting louder and soon ran as far away as she could, but the next sound heard after she disappeared was the sound of a shotgun. Hearing that caused Patch and the others to stop. Another shotgun was heard which made Patch and the others cringe. Colette shivered and looked scared and sad from the noise. Patch looked to her and decided to comfort her.

"Does that mean she's...?" Angel frowned.

"Yeah..." Scamp gulped.

An owl flew down from a tree and saw the fox kit left behind hiding in the blades of grass. Once the fox kit saw the owl, he hid behind one of the fence poles.

"Wow, I've never seen a fox up close before." Patch said as he comforted Colette who was upset and worried about the gunshot.

Colette seemed to blush under her fur about how kind and brave Patch was.

"You poor little fella..." The owl cooed to the poor fox kit who was now an orphan. "It's all right... Big Mama's here."

The owl and fox kit didn't seem to see or hear Patch and the others. The fox kit kept trying to avoid the owl since it thought she was a predator. There was soon barking heard in the distance of where the fox's mother had been shot.

"Ya know, you're gonna need some caring for," The owl smiled to the fox kit. "Now, let's see, darling... You need, um..."

The fox kit soon nuzzled against her, now able to trust her. Big Mama already knew what he was thinking. Colette soon settled down due to how cute the fox kit was.

"Oh, no, no, not me, not Big Mama now." The female owl chuckled before thinking about where to send the fox to, but she was distracted by an obnoxious pecking sound.

"Augh!" Annette groaned. "I have a headache now!"

Big Mama hid the fox kit into the grass and soon flew off to where the pecking noise was coming from.

"Where is that sound coming from?!" Collette groaned.

"Hm..." Patch hummed in thought. "I would guess a tree... I bet you it's a woodpecker."

"Must be." Collette said.

"Has anyone seen Danielle?" Scamp asked.

Everyone looked around and just now noticed that the tomboy cocker spaniel puppy was gone.

"Oh, no!" Annette and Collette panicked for their sister.

"We better find her." Angel said.

Patch looked worried about the fox kit being alone while they went off to find her. Eventually, Big Mama came back with two birds, and one was in fact a woodpecker who knocked on the door of the house that wasn't too far away from where they were, and there came out an old woman who seemed to live alone and soon found the fox kit. Patch knew that the fox kit was in good hands now.

Danielle ended up in someone else's yard. There was an older man who drove to what seemed to be his house and brought out a bag to an older dog who slept outside and showed a hound dog puppy who was named Copper.

"Copper?!" Danielle yelped at how young the pup she was in love with was.

"Wait, wait, so, you and the others were somehow seeing the past?" Scruffy's voice asked.

"It's hard to explain, but yeah..." Patch replied as he scratched behind his ear briefly. "I guess someone just wanted us to see how Tod and Copper came to be before we all became friends."

"So, you did meet them at Puppy School." Dot smiled.

Patch nodded.

"Great story, Dad..." Scruffy muttered. "The best five minutes of my life."

"Keep going." Dot said politely to her parents.

"Hey!" Scruffy pouted.

"Well, you know, eventually we met Tod and Copper and we all became friends," Patch smiled to Scruffy and Dot before frowning with a slight sigh. "Even though Copper's human didn't like that."

"Well, he was a hunter." Collette clarified.

"Yeah... Kind of a nasty one..." Patch narrowed his eyes as he didn't like Copper's master very much. "But, luckily, we could play with Tod and Copper when not in Puppy School."

Back in the old days, it was the weekend, which meant there was no school today, since Tod didn't have a human kid to play with, he went to go see if he could play with his best friend. Patch was seen going to join the others since they were all friends.

"Hey, guys, you wanna come see Copper with me?" Tod smiled to the other puppies.

"Y-Yeah, sounds like fun." Danielle smiled back.

"You know it." Patch added.

Tod smiled as he took them over there.

A rooster crow was heard when they came to the residence.

"Copper!" Tod called out as he waited with the others while the older dog known as Chief was sleeping.

"Copper, you ready to play?" Scamp smiled.

Copper was happy to see them all and tried to come over, but was a little nervous since Chief was fast asleep in the middle of the ground.

"Come on, Copper!" Danielle smiled.

Copper eventually made it over Chief, and smiled back as he ran towards Tod and the other puppies. Tod and Copper playfully tackled each other before they went to go play on the beautiful weekend day. Nothing seemed to ruin their fun besides Copper's master.

"Copper, you're my very best friend." Tod smiled.

"You're mine too, Tod!" Copper smiled back.

"We'll all be friends forever." Scamp smiled.

"That's right." Patch smiled back.

"Hey, let's go swimming!" Tod suggested.

"If I get a head-start, I can beat ya!" Copper laughed as he ran ahead.

"Hey!" Danielle laughed.

They went to the nearby pond and then went to take a swim all together, and where they all had fun swimming. Big Mama smiled as she watched them from a high branch.

"Splash! Splash!" Danielle laughed.

"Got you!" Colette laughed back.

"STOP SPLASHING ME!" Annette cried out like a diva.

Scamp soon splashed his sisters with a playful smirk.

"HEEEY!" The cocker spaniel triplets yelped.

"Sorry, ladies, I gotta swim," Scamp chuckled to his sisters before he was soon splashed by Angel. "What the? Hey!"

Angel giggled innocently as she waved to him with a front paw. There was then a whistling noise heard and someone was calling Copper's name.

"Copper, sounds like your owner is calling." Collette said.

Copper tried to ignore it so that he could still have fun, but he soon stopped and came to the human calling for him. "I gotta go training..." he told the others in regret.

"Do ya have to?" Tod asked with a smile. "We're having too much fun!"

"I gotta, he sounds awful mad." Copper said as he shook himself dry and kept going.

"We understand." Danielle said.

"We'll see ya tomorrow, and don't forget!" Tod called out.

"I won't!" Copper called back.