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One day after breakfast White Paws as usual went to talk with his friend, Rexy. Mother was planting flowers in the garden. Father was at work. Alex, the elder brother, was sitting at the computer. Only Ervin had nothing to do. He walked from one room to another and invented how to spend his time.

At first he washed all the plates in the kitchen. Then he sang all songs, which he remembered. Then he made up three new songs. He sang them one time and wanted to sing them again, but he forgot the words. Then he decided to do something which he wouldn’t forget. He thought and thought and understood that he could draw something for mother. He drew grass because mother liked grass very much. And then he decided to draw something for father and for Alex.

He drew a basket with mushrooms for his father, because father always praised him when he brought home mushrooms and mother prepared them.

But he didn’t know what to draw for Alex, because Alex had everything in his computer. And so Ervin drew a postcard, where he designed a comp of future. It was portable, quite tiny and without a keyboard.

Then he remembered White Paws and drew him flowers. White Paws liked to smell flowers very much.

Only Rexy was left without a picture. Ervin began to remember what Rexy liked and he remembered that best of all Rexy liked sausages. Ervin decided to draw them next time. He took sausages from the fridge and went to visit Rexy.

Rexy was very glad. And White Paws was very glad too. They were just discussing one interesting matter. White Paws said, “Get inside!”

At first Ervin refused to do it. He merely stood near the dog-house. But Rexy said, “Why are you standing there at the door? Come in! There is enough place for everybody.”

So Ervin crawled in. They talked and talked and by and by they fell asleep. But when mother started to call Ervin for dinner, he was seen nowhere. Then Alex had to look for his brother. He examined the garden, looked behind the trees and ran to the street. He even ran to the clearing in the woods, where Ervin usually picked up mushrooms. There were a lot of mushrooms, as usual, but there was no Ervin.

Mother was very surprised because Ervin was a very obedient boy and couldn’t go to the woods without permission. So she called Rexy to go to look for Ervin with her. Rexy crawled out of the dog-house and began to jump near mother. He jumped, hopped, waved his tail and joyfully barked showing that everything was all right, meaning Ervin was at his place.

But mum couldn’t understand dog’s language. Ervin had tried to teach her both dogs and cats languages, but she didn’t want to study. So now she was not able to understand Rexy, when he tried to tell her about Ervin. Rexy barked so diligently and loudly that Ervin woke up. He saw mother’s legs not far from the dog-house and wanted to get out of it, so that to approach mum from the behind and scare her. But when he started to crawl out and put his head out of the dog-house, he understood that it was not as easy to get out of it as it was to get into it.

White Paws tried to help him pushing him from the behind. But what’s the use from a cat?

Then Ervin called his mum, so she wouldn’t go to the forest by chance. Of course, mother was very glad that Ervin was found. But she didn’t manage to get Ervin out of the dog-house. Fortunately, father came home for dinner at that time. He removed the roof of the dog-house and dragged out Ervin together with White Paws. He told Ervin to repair the roof of the dog-house. As for the cat, he only threatened it shaking his finger and said, “White Paws, if I see you again in the dog-house, I’ll leave you to live there forever.”

White Paws didn’t want to stay in the dog-house forever. He liked the house and wanted to live in the house, especially in winter. He was afraid that father would send him to the yard to Rexy. So, since then he visited Rexy only when father was at work. As for Ervin, it was forbidden to him even to approach the dog-house.