It's the early evening, and the mane six have all gone to party the night away at Canterlot. In their absence, their pets decide to get together and form the 'pet playdate' of a lifetime...

Rated T for language and crude humor.

Thanks to MaroonIllustrator for the cover image!

Six pets hang out in Twilight's basement.

It's that time again, the time when Winona's coat get's dirty enough from everyday farm play that the task of bathing is at hand. Applebloom has drawn the short straw, so she enlists the help of her friends.

((HA! Good luck with that.))

Coverart By Ayemel

Fifteen years. We all aged over the past fifteen years, the Apple Family and Winona and I; especially Winona. And for another fifteen years I thought I'd be blessed with her company. But then the cancer took its hold.

That's when I realized: sometimes the hardest thing is not letting go, but pulling the trigger.

Applejack and Apple Bloom desperately want to get back to the farmhouse, but Winona won't be budged where she lays. What reason could this normally obedient dog have to be so... disobedient?

The answer may surprise you. Or not, if you've skipped to the end already. Talk about impatient.

Featured! Thanks to everyone who read it.

An explosion in Twilight's lab causes a huge disaster all over town. Communications with Canterlot is broken, making it impossible to call for any help before time runs out for the citizens of Ponyville.

The only chance anypony has is the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Can they save Ponyville from its own doom. Celestia help us all!

Thanks to my special friend Bad_Seed_72 for all her wonderful editing work.

A pony shows up on Earth as a human, and some person finds and takes care of the former-pony. You know the whole story. My life was normal until some girl drops into my life, claiming she's from Equestria. At this point, you're probably wondering which pony I met. Let me stop you there. Instead of some girl saying she's a pony, I get a girl who literally acts like a dog. Now I have to take care of her until she finds a way home. Little did I know, this girl would change my quiet life.

Applejack accidentally stumbles across the fact that Winona is a changeling in disguise. Now, everypony is going crazy trying to figure out if their own pet is a love-sucking bug or not, each in their own...unique way.

AN: My friend told me he didn't think I could write a story using fewer than three thousand words, so I set out to challenge myself. 13 hours of writing later, and this was what happened.

Thanks to Noble Thought for the story concept.

Winona is the Apple Family's sheepdog puppy. They adopted her from a shelter after she was abandoned by her previous owners and left to fend for herself as a stray for a while. The dog has been displaying strange behaviour during the fall of night and after this odd behaviour pattern carries on for a few weeks, it's blatantly obvious something isn't quite right with her.

When the family grows concerned for their family pet, Applejack and her two siblings decide to take her along to Fluttershy's cottage in hopes that she can communicate with her and find some answers as to why she is acting so strangely. Unfortunately, what they find out turns out to be rather heartbreaking.

DISCLAIMER: This is an unofficial origin story. It was inspired by a true story of similar events.

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Credit for cover art: https://www.deviantart.com/tsitra360/art/Winona-645824133

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Featured: 16/02/21 - 18/02/21

The Apple family house is empty. Winona sits alone, waiting for the day it'll feel full again.

Featured as of 7/17/23