Fatface & Furballs' Very Bad Furday

De: Cass Clark

Narrado por: Louis Critchley

Q: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TWO STRAGGLY STRAY ANIMALS, A LOST TIME-TRAVELLER AND A HI-JACKED DWARF PLANET COLLIDE?

A: A VERY BAD FURDAY. Across the planet, a scourge of undisposed-of pet poo-bags, carelessly flung by pet-owners across vast swathes of landscape and regularly transported to the orbiting INTERNATIONAL SEWERAGE TANK IN SPACE CONTAINER, (I-STINC for short), has caused a sudden need for NASSA, (the National Animal Secret Space Agency), to acquire stray animals, highly train them, and select a candidate for a one-way mission to press the Poop Bay Door Button, which has malfunctioned, and release the offending ‘dark matter’ into the cold, dark vacuum of Space — a mission only a fully trained Catstronaut can accomplish.

Unaware of this global crisis, a nameless Time Traveller makes an emergency stop at an Animal Shelter, partly because he needs to use the loo, and partly because when he braked, his time machine skidded a little bit further into the future than he'd intended, and he inadvertently saw something he didn't want to see, involving two occupants of the Shelter – an apparently inseparable (and slightly stinky) straggly dog and cat team, whom he decides to go back and warn of this horrible vision, leaving the two inmates with a stern warning.

When curiosity gets the better of the two stray waifs, they do the very thing the Time Traveller warned them not to, and their dreary routine becomes a paw-prickling, fur-tingling, litter-tray-rattling cosmic quest that defies the known laws of the Universe. Who gets to go on the one-way Space mission? Will all the world’s poo bags be ejected safely into Space? And, more importantly, why are there no public toilets in the Universe for Time Travellers? Could these two unlikely characters be the answer the world needs? Who knows! One thing and one thing alone's for certain: these two furry beings will literally NEVER be the same again!

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