Purely an anecdote story, though it centers around compassion for animals with a happy, and somewhat humorous, ending. Caroline appears in this story, its one of the few times this 80s child is used in the 90s. Also appearing is Andy Anaconda, also known as "The Mad Anaconda". He loves to grab warm and fuzzy animals into his coils and squeeze them until they are unconscious. Caroline is innocently visiting downtown when she comes across the snake. It looks like all is lost, until Uncle Martin and the Gang step in with Rosa, who has veterinary experience. She takes care of Caroline while...

Dee Dee Rivera has written some of the best comedy stories for UMG Productions over the years. A lot of her stories contain a lot of slapstick humor. This story is no exception! Imagine a world 60 million years into the future in the drier regions of South America. A Tachypus (also known as a racer) is looking for food. All of a sudden, its worst nightmare, a Deinognathus, springs out from behind a cactus plant!! The Tachypus tries to foil the attempts of the Deinognathus to make a meal out of him. Inspired by Chuck Joness cartoons about a coyote vs. a roadrunner, the Deinognathus makes one...

A UMG Productions masterpiece! This is a story about a young sifaka lemur named Nora, who wants a baby so bad because all the other animals in the forest have babies
of their own, but she does not. She doesnt even know how to go about getting a baby. She does the only thing she knows, and that is to go around the forest and hunt for a baby to adopt. She tries one baby after another, and fails because the mothers always come to claim the babies and take them away from Nora. Nora believes she will never get a baby of her own, and almost gives up. Until something happens that changes her life....

Uncle Martin and the gang have been facing some hardships, and needs the gang to contribute their time to find a job to help get the clubhouse back on its

feet. Well, Mushmouth gets a job at the local fairgrounds. But the job is not at all what he was expecting or what he was hoping for. Dee Dee Rivera bases this story in part on her own experiences working at the fairgrounds in Puyallup, WA. And this story is where UMGs own evil villainess makes her first appearance, Stacy! Based on Riveras own ex-supervisor at that job. Stacy snaps first at Mushmouth, and then snaps at Kathy as she tries...

This is a story that Ms. Rivera bases in part on her own marriage which took place in 1997. Candi finally buckles down and decides to marry Leopold, her long-time boyfriend. Some spice has been added to the story. Leopold has a tough time when he decides he should tell Candi about the one-night stand he had with the evil Stacy the night before. Of course Candi is upset when she hears this, and bawls Leopold out, then walks out of the diner where they were having drinks.





When Candi takes a long break in a far away field, she runs into Stacy as she trots along the field on horseback. Of...

Rosa and Mushmouth are back again, this time in a market in Nairobi, Kenya. It is their first time there, and Rosa takes Mushmouth to the market with her, and ties him to a pole while she looks around. Little does she realize there are 2 teenage boys looking at Mushmouth like a nice, juicy steak!! Thinking he is a horse, or some prey animal, they think he is the perfect bait to use to hunt lions with. After foiling their attempts to hunt lions, the teens return Mushmouth to a very worried Rosa. Rosa thinks the boys are just doing a good deed, until they give her the shock of her life!! What...

This is the story of an inventor named Everett, who thinks he has invented the perfect machine for time travel. His friends Vinnie and Stella offer themselves as his ""guinea pigs"" to experiment on this new machine. They ask him to send them back to May of 1980, before the eruption of Mount St. Helens. So he does. Little do they realize when they get there that the mountain is literally alive Not just with the eruption about to happen, but also with an indian princess who was cursed to be a part of that mountain until a spirit is sacrificed to free her. So what is the spirit? That's what...