"If you've got the place for it, I suppose," Scrooge said with a nod.

Let her assume what she would about that statement. The truth was that the selkie colony shared a large set of rocks that they all slept on as seals, and Scrooge liked to get away from it all. Too many people in too small a space, and he wasn't particularly fond of some random pups climbing all over him. (Allegedly it was different when they were yours, but none of them were.)