• Fact: There are 70 million dogs in America.
• Fact: Each of them will bury an average of eight bones this year.
• Fact: This has been going on for centuries.
• Fact: Oh man, that's a lot of bones lying around.

And it's not just bones dogs are burying either! It's shoes! Dolls! Statue of Liberty snow-globe paperweights! Whole desk sets!

Anyway, pretty much every dog digs for a hobby. But my Great Uncle Ruffmantosh? He turned digging into a career! He's the most famous archaeologist in the world! Actually, he's the most famous archaeologist in the world who is also a Scotch Terrier.

Ah, I'll never forget my first big dig with Uncle Ruffmantosh. It was a rough trip. First we had to survive (Great Uncle's bagpipe-playing.) Then we braved dog-eating tse-tse flies (they looked like normal flies, but Uncle insisted they could eat dogs) and the dreaded cat-eating python (it turned out to be just an old garden hose), until we finally reached a patch of dirt Great Uncle was sure was the site of Dogtopia—the fabled ancient civilization run entirely by dogs and cats!

And what did we find on our dig? A boot. Okay, and what else? No, that was it. A boot. But Great Uncle wasn't about to admit defeat. He vowed he'd find Dogtopia if it was the last thing he did!

Always fascinating, always entertaining, always…