"Great!" said Kristy.

    "Because my pet is definitely going to win first prize," Karen finished.

    Kristy rolled her eyes. "What pet are you entering?" she asked.

    "Well, that's the only problem," said Karen. "1 can't decide between Rocky and Emily Junior." Rocky is Seth's cat. And Emily Junior is (ew) a rat! Emily Junior lives with Karen's mother and stepfather, instead of at Watson's house.

    "Rocky's kind of funny-looking," mused Karen. "I'd probably have to dress her up or something." Kristy pictured Rocky in Karen's dress-up clothes - her "lovely lady" clothes, as she calls them. High heels, a big hat... or maybe a wedding veil. Kristy tried not to laugh out loud.

    "But if I entered Emily Junior, she'd probably be the only rat there. Maybe she'd win a prize just for that," Karen continued. "The only thing is that I'd probably have to give her a bath, and I don't know how much she'd like that," she added. "I just can't decide." "What about Boo-Boo?" asked David Michael. "Doesn't anybody want to enter Boo-Boo?" Everybody laughed. Why? Because Boo-Boo is not just any cat. Boo-Boo is the oldest, fattest, and meanest cat you've ever seen.

    "He's too nasty," said Karen. "He'd probably hiss at the judges." "Yeah," said Andrew. "And how could we even pick him up to carry him to the show? -He's too fat." Obviously, Boo-Boo was out of the question as a pet-show contestant.

    "But what about Emily Michelle?" asked David Michael. "She doesn't have a pet to enter." "Pet!" said Emily Michelle, smiling and clapping her hands.

    David Michael started to laugh all of a sudden.

    "What's so funny?" asked Karen.

    "What if Emily enters Boo-Boo?" he said.

    Kristy thought of Emily trying to lug Boo-Boo to the pet show. "That cat is almost bigger than she is!" she said, laughing.

    Karen and Andrew cracked up, too. Then Karen got serious. "But Emily's too young to enter a pet, right?" she asked Kristy.