"Pet care isn’t all purring and snuggles—especially when your pet is a saber tooth tiger. While Mittens likes Penelope Rex and her parents, he doesn’t like the mail carrier, the vet, the neighbors, or really any other humans at all. But above all, Mittens doesn’t like being left alone. When Penelope comes home from school to a house that’s been destroyed, she starts to wonder if she’s cut out for pet ownership." --publisher's website

Surprises are in store as Stink excavates his backyard in search of a relic from an extinct beast -- and Judy lends him a little sleight of hand. Mega-chomp! Stink wants to make the find of the century. He's on a dig, dig, digging quest in his backyard to find a tooth from a saber-toothed cat, otherwise known as a Smilodon. Why not? Two kids in Michigan found a mastodon bone in a backyard stream, and a girl in Great Britain found a pterosaur bone....