The Ruff Ruffman Show
Pet-Sitting Tip #3: Turn Your Rhino into a Dog
10/19/2017 | 4m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
Can Ruff find the right material to transform Fluff the Rhino into Fluff the Dog?
Ruff will be in big trouble if Blossom comes home to find a rhino in her house…unless he can disguise Fluff as a shaggy Puli dog! Can Ruff and Chet find the right materials to make a costume that will transform Fluff the Rhino into Fluff the Dog?
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The Ruff Ruffman Show
Pet-Sitting Tip #3: Turn Your Rhino into a Dog
10/19/2017 | 4m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
Ruff will be in big trouble if Blossom comes home to find a rhino in her house…unless he can disguise Fluff as a shaggy Puli dog! Can Ruff and Chet find the right materials to make a costume that will transform Fluff the Rhino into Fluff the Dog?
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With Blossom and Chet.
Yeah!
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Oh, hi!
Okay, here's the deal.
Blossom comes home from vacation tomorrow, and I still have a rhino in our house.
If only you were a dog, Fluff!
Blossom loves dogs, kinda.
(gasps) That's it!
Fluff, you're going to have to be a dog until Blossom can see how great having a rhinoceros is.
Quick, Chet, start looking for stuff to make a dog costume for a rhino.
A dog costume for a rhino.
What?
That makes perfect sense.
All right!
Good job, Chet!
There's bound to be materials for making a dog costume in here somewhere.
Well, none of these make Fluff look like a dog.
Going to need a better costume.
Hmm.
Yeah, but Fluff has to look like a real dog.
All right, we need a dog with fur we can copy and cover our rhino with.
Let's see what we've got here.
Wow, a lot of choices.
This dog is too tiny.
That is a duck.
Hold on, wait-- that's a dog?
Huh.
The Puli.
A Hungarian herding dog.
Interesting.
Whoa, all that long, thick, messy fur could cover the whole rhino.
Chet, we have found our dog.
All right, let's see what we're dealing with here.
So viewers, we've determined that a puli's fur is long, thick, and messy.
In other words, its main quality is shagginess.
So Chet and I are going to sort our pile into two new piles-- a pile of shaggy things and a pile of not shaggy things.
Ready?
Here we go.
The strands on the rug are long, thick, and messy.
It's shaggy.
Multicolored pom-poms.
Long, check.
Thick, check.
Messy, check.
Shaggy!
A sandwich from last April.
Oh, I was wondering where that sandwich went.
Not shaggy.
My Golden Blobbie award.
Not shaggy.
Uh, this could take a while.
A welcome mat, a mop, a weird sweater I got from Grandma, a rope bone that's falling apart.
So we've now identified all of our shaggy items.
But shagginess alone won't convince Blossom that Fluff is a puli.
This puli is a gray color, so we need to sort our shaggy pile into two new piles-- shaggy things that are gray and shaggy things that are not gray.
Gray, not gray.
Gray, not gray.
Not gray, gray.
Not gray-- done!
We've narrowed our choice for puli costume material down to these three items.
We've matched the color, and we have shagginess.
But is the shaggy material the right length?
Does it match the length of actual puli fur?
Rope bone?
Nope, the strands are too long.
The rug fibers?
Too short.
Oh, this mop is... ...perfect!
Quick, Chet, go out and buy 100 mops so our rhino can look like a dog!
(squeaks) What?
That makes sense.
Come on, get on there!
Phew!
That's how to turn a rhino into a dog with 100 mops.
Just like the fur on the puli in that picture, mop heads are gray, kind of long, and definitely shaggy.
And now all we have to do is teach you a few basic canine tricks.
Ready?
Roll over.
(creaking) Oh, wait, no, no, just roll over once.
Once!
(screaming) Yep, we have a little more work to do.
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