When Iris followed Alex with a much less graceful cannonball that soaked all of them again, he figured it could wait for another day. "Think you better follow 'em before they splash all the water out the lake," he said to Ally.

''kay, Daddy," she giggled, before paddling out to join her sisters. "Come on, Boomer!"

The old hound followed after her, cirling around the lot of them and barking as best as he could while swimming, obviously not happy with a situation where he couldn't herd them to what he consdered safety. The "Shut up, Boomer!" from all of them was nearly simultaneous.