Stelze suggested he needed to practice more and encouraged Pirate to concentrate on the barking for now.
She told another joke and made everybody laugh and bark again. Even late at night, once Pirate was curled up with Stelze on the couch, half asleep, he every now and then let out a soft woof woof.
Stelze woke up every time but quickly drifted back to sleep with a happy smile on her face. Only Buddha got a bit funny with Pirate. At one stage he yelled down from the roof top:
“Hey, mate! Are you trying to shoo away the stars, or what?”