Zee-Zee was feeling very good about himself today. He had made it to the potty all by himself! Without any help from a grown-up at all! But he looked out at the other cubs still wearing diapers, and he felt a little sad for them for not being big enough to use the potty. He wanted everyone to feel as good as he did today about being grown-up. Then, he got an idea!

Meanwhile, Angela and Madeline were playing with the dollhouse together. They both needed their diapers changed very badly. Madeline was wet, and Angela was poopy. Not that either girl really minded, of course. Then, little Zee-Zee came up to them, holding a pull-up in his paw.

“Hi Angela! Hi Madewine!”

“Hi Zee-Zee,” Madeline replied.

Holding out the pull-up, the squirrel asked “Do you wanna be big kids like me? Why not trade those yucky ol’ diapers for a pull-up? That way, you can use the potty and be super big and growed-up!”

The boy’s questions brought smiles to the girls’ faces. Then, they started giggling!

“Heeheeheehee…No, no thank you,” said Angela.

“We’re good….Hahahahahaha!” Madeline chuckled.

Zee-zee felt just a little bit hurt. “Aww, why not?”

Still giggling, Madeline asked “Why stop playing for something that’s just gonna come out by itself anyway? I think the potty is for sillies!”

Oh, Zee-Zee knew the answer to that one! “But if ya use da potty, you dun have ta stop playing for icky, yucky diaper changes anymore!”

“Yeah, we can stop playing for icky, yucky potty breaks instead,” said Angela, which sent both girls into fresh giggle fits.

This wasn’t going the way Zee-Zee wanted it to. He felt his tail droop. Now Madeline felt a little bad, because Mrs. Valerie said it wasn’t very nice to laugh at other furs, and they were learning about manners this week.

“Aww, I’m sorry, Zee-Zee. But I’m bigger than you, an’ I jus’ don’ like the potty,” Madeline said.

Angela added “My Mommy says I’m too little to use the potty right now. She says I wee-wee in my sleep too much, an’ then there was the time da potty monster tried to gobble me up!”

Now it was Zee-Zee’s turn to laugh! “Hahahahahaha! The potty monster isn’t real, Angela! That’s just a silly story!”

But Angela was quite serious. “Oh yes, it is! One time, I wanned to use the potty by myself, jus’ to see what it was like. So I tried to sit on it, but I felled right in! I tried to climb out, but then it yelled at me, and tried to suck me down! I screamed so loud, Zee-Zee. I screamed so loud! But Mommy saved me from da monster! She pulled me right out of its mouth. She gave me a big hug and lots of kissies, an’ then she told me I wasn’ allowed to use the potty by myself, ‘cause I’m too little. She says I still need my diapers, an’ even if I don’t, I’m not sitting on that thing again until I’m sure the potty monster is gone.” The poor little mousie shuddered at the memory.

Now Zee-Zee felt just a little unnerved. He had always thought the potty monster wasn’t true, but what Angela was saying sounded so real that he had to wonder. “Maybe it was jus’ your imagination?”

“Oh no, it wasn’t! I heard it myself!” she replied.

“But I use the potty all the time Angela, an’ I’ve never got eated by the potty monster,” Zee-Zee said.

“Well, maybe it thinks you taste yucky. Or maybe it only lives in my house,” Angela proposed.

“Zee-Zee, don’ you see?” Madeline said. “That kind of stuff is supposed to go in your pants. Doing it without a diaper just makes a bigger mess for your mommy or daddy to clean up. Besides, you just did,” said Madeline, noticing Zee-Zee’s rather wet pull-up.

Poor Zee-Zee didn’t understand. “Did what?”

Angela grinned and asked “Should we tell him?”

Madeline smiled and said “Now now, Angela. He is a big boy, after all. Let him figure it out by himself.” And the two girls went back to playing, not caring about the mess in their own diapers one little bit.

Zee-zee walked away, a little annoyed over how he had failed to make his friends see the point of the potty. But mostly he felt sorry for Angela. It wasn’t fair how she still had to wear diapers because she wasn’t finished growing yet, and she was bigger than he was. Oh well. His Mommy had told him that every cub learns differently, after all.

But where was that warm, soggy feeling coming from?


Madeline and Angela are mine. Zee-Zee belongs to  Zee-Zee Zee-Zee