My neighbor surprised me with his new dog, a robot! A remote control in his hand, he asked me to throw a stick.

“Wait a minute, Bob. That’s not the dog I saw on TV shooting fire?”

"Nonsense, that would be crazy.”

I pitched the stick toward the neighbor’s fence.

 Fire flowed from the dog, igniting the fence and crossing into the neighbor’s yard on a tree before we heard sirens.

“Better send it back!”