Author(s): Kristin Kelly

NZ Children & Young Adult

Max and Spike are troubled. Their owners have brought home a new baby and all the attention is on this ‘squeakling’. Studying it closely, they note that it likes to shake things, make big noises and it smells bad. Plan A is to do the same. FAIL! Plan B is to make themselves helpful so they bring in the washing (dragging it through the dirt), clean the dishes (lick them) and water the pot plants (by weeing on them!). Surprisingly, that doesn’t work either. Perhaps they just have to leave home …