Katchoo wouldn't take it as an insult if the fingers that had been stroking through the puppy's fur a moment ago were now repeating the same motions in her hair, right?

"I wonder if apartments in St. Louis let you keep owls," Francine said, voicing a thought that she was supposed to be too cheery and hopeful a person to have, but to paraphrase Katchoo sometime or other, $%&## that.