Oriole(VWF127) was born on February 7, 2008, in the Whiskers. Her mother was Ella, a Whiskers subordinate female, and her father was the famous rover Homestar Runner. She had two brothers Marico(VWM126) and Sabota(VWM128). Ella had been evicted with Wiley Kat a few weeks before their birth and had joined Homestar Runner and his brother, Phillipe. However, the males had left Ella and her sister and Wiley Kat aborted her litter. Ella and Wiley Kat returned to the Whiskers burrow and was allowed to rejoin the group since Rocket Dog had lost her litter. Oriole and her two brothers were born in a hard time in Whiskers history. Only one litter of eight pups had been born a year before, but the Whiskers had dropped in numbers do to evictions and roving. Nugget and Beaker, Rocket Dog's only sucess