but alas, poppi couldn’t take them all for a walk because, amongst other things, he had to clean up a mountain of stinky mauja poop that he left on one of the few patches of carpet in the house. upon seeing the pile of poop, with the instant clarity of hindsight, poppi really had wished he hadn’t told mauja to go back to sleep when he was talking rather loudly from the bottom of the stairs at the crack of dawn.