Do you know I actually spend a lot of time thinking about whether to have actual goats in it or not? XD But in the end the goats got replaced with dogs. And the kittens got replaced with dogs too. Really, there were just a lot of dogs. XD

Thank you so much for this! I actually feel very much the same way about Heidi, and really tried to get the spirit of it in this story without being bound by the details. (And I did reread it twice while writing this. Well, I reread the first two thirds before writing it anyway, which is what this story and the movie cover, more or less.)

And yes, sequels written by her translator definitely qualify as fanfiction if you ask me. XD