After seeing the world, Willy has requested (and we must confess that this is quite unprecedented) a return to what he calls his "home" on your front lawn. While we at PETOP are a bit baffled by his desire to return, he simply wouldn't shut up about his friends the reindeer, inflatable Santa Claus and of course, Anthony, Alison, Emily and Cassidy.

At this point, some among the staff are mumbling that they never would have taken him out of the bubble if they'd known he was going to talk this much, but those staff members have been strongly disciplined.

Willie's loquaciousness aside, PETOP still feels that this has been an important mission. Looking ahead to our long-awaited merger with the RLF (pending office space considerations), our vision of worldwide penguin amnesty is becoming a reality one day at a time, and cases like Willie's are part of that effort.

Nonetheless, we here at PETOP hope that Willie's absence (known here at headquarters as Penguin File No. 493058) has not been an inconvenience to your family this Christmas season, and we wish you all the best in the coming year, during which we will, of course, be watching ...

Before his triumpant return Willy needed to make a few more stops on his adventure.