Vince is a brown dog who lives with Barb in the farmhouse. J.J. calls him “Vince the Funnel” because he wears a white medical cone on his head. J.J. met Vince just a couple of weeks earlier but has not gotten to know him because J.J. lives outside while Vince lives inside. All J.J. knows about Vince is that a dog walker comes to walk him regularly and that some animals think Vince is very strange. Moosh runs around the yard, yelling that Vince stole her chicks, while Dirt and Sugar try to understand what is going on.

Vince looks out the window at J.J., who is sniffing around the yard, and Moosh, who is following him and squawking. Vince thinks J.J. is a “loser” and mocks him for being a “Hero Dog.” Vince thinks threateningly about J.J., suggesting that they’ll soon meet and have a fight. Vince jumps down from the window and accidentally breaks a lamp, scaring two little chicks in the process.

Vince leaves the window, and J.J. realizes that the note was a set-up and that there will not be a rendezvous. Sugar rushes up to J.