Homeward Bound

Remember our good old friends, Shadow, Sassy and Chance?

Shadow, the wise one, the faithful one, the one who always kept his doggie-head on his doggie-shoulders.
Chance, the crazy one with a sad past, has a hard time trusting again. But he's fun, quick to complain, and quick to become friends.
Sassy, the well... sassy cat. Kind of somewhere between the two. A cat in a world of dogs, she complains about them but loves them, deep down.

One goal: to get home to their masters.
They would have been ok if they had stayed put. Their masters were coming back.

* lesson n°1: sometimes if you take things into your own hands out of lack of faith, you'll get home, but you'll make it hard on yourself and meet bears, porcupines, and mountain lions on the way.

So on their way... they discovered how to work together and be a team even when they didn't agree, they stuck up for one another.

* lesson n°2: cats aren't as strong as dogs, but they have gifts dogs don't have. To make it home, you need both cats and dogs, working together

They got spotted by some rangers and were brought to an animal shelter, the "bad place". Their masters were going to bring them home from there, but once again they ran away.

* lesson n°3: we don't always have the ability to understand why. Why things happen. Why we end up in the "bad place".

After running away, Shadow gets stuck in a mud pit with a broken paw.

* lesson n°4: even the best of us mess up, fall, get discouraged. sometimes want to give up altogether and be left for dead.

* lesson n°5: that's what friends are for.