[Felt most wouldn't listen even if the animals could speak-]

Not outside of Wonderland and fairy-tales, so it may stand there's a few or more here who do.

[The land of stories and all that, but she suspected Toto couldn't speak as he wasn't anything more than a loyal dog. For the most part at least, clever as he was already proving to be.

Or just happy to please.]

Cheshire. I must say, if he were around he'd have popped up just to give a little fright by now.