[Maybe dog catching became a super lucrative business all of a sudden!!!

Mike nods the customary you're welcome nod.]

Nah. She watched me some, but I kept her tied up to trees away from the holes 'cause I didn't want to fill up a hole and then not be able to find her and have to dig up the hole again to make sure she wasn't in there.

[He says it so seriously. Like, yeah, accidentally burying the dog and not knowing he'd done it was a real concern.

Mike reaches not for the gun or the leash but the coffee he set aside.]

I lied to you before.

[Truth-telling hour.]