yap

"I'm usually wearing my bonnet, no makeup and I just pick up the phone and start yapping," she says.

The placid if slightly stupid day nurse is a cow; the surgeon has the head of a yapping terrier; the junior nurse is a “prancing kitten.”

Offstage, he was a doddering, stammering dad shuffling around rooms bustling with yapping tiny dogs urinating everywhere.

"She was just yapping. She said 'I'm going to America tomorrow. Going to buy stuff'. She loved shopping," her sister Donna says.

At night, hungry coyotes yap and howl beyond the walls of Deborah’s ample, manicured yard.