[One, three, four, two and a half- oh bother.]

[He'd almost got the walking thing down by the time he found himself coming to very graceful stop on his face- which was to say, he had been at it for quite a long time.]

[He extracts his muzzle from the turf to blink in wide-eyed astonishment at the haven they'd arrived at. It looked like something out of a children's story book, or film, or... Hallmark card.]

Wow... I... you certainly have a lot of friends, don't you?