Too many legs!? Spiders!? If Auntie Ghita didn't like spiders because they had too many legs, what did she think of centipedes? Gotham probably wouldn't admit it, but he didn't really like centipedes, for the reason that his aunt had mentioned. They were really creepy and really fast! But spiders were nice, and they had the perfect number of legs. Also, they had lots and lots of eyes, and Gotham thought that was really cool because probably they could look at lots of different things at once! That was a skill that he would like to have.
When Ghita offered to go to the lake with him, any disdain he was feeling for her disappeared. "Okay! Or we can all go and we can all walk on the water like the spiders!" He was beyond excited at this point, wagging his tail with a fervour that was capable of throwing his back half back and forth.
It didn't seem like the apparent inflation of his aunt could be a good thing, but he would take his mother's word for it. He wondered what caused it, and why would the mums look like that before they had puppies? Slowly, it dawned on him that perhaps, just maybe, they carried the puppies around in there! This realization didn't answer all his questions, though, and he stared with narrow eyes at Ghita's belly for a moment as if he had X-ray vision and was capable of seeing what was inside.
He was distracted soon enough by the realization that there would be more puppies! Perhaps he would like puppies. He was a puppy, after all, and his sisters were puppies, and he liked them. So, probably he would like these puppies, too! With a grin, he exclaimed, "Yeah!"
Though he had learned a lot today, there were more questions than answers. Someday, perhaps, it would all make sense. At this point, he sort of doubted it.