The summer is coming to a close and Doug is delivering invitations for his 12th birthday party to all his friends. While he goes all around town, he discovers that Bluffington (as well as his friends) have been through changes. The Honker Burger is gone, Roger is rich, The Beets are breaking up, a new Middle School is being built, Patti is being home schooled in the mornings and Doug needs a hair cut. So many things have changed that it makes Doug sick of changes, so he cancels his birthday. But later, Judy makes him realize that changes makes us different from rocks, and Doug reinstates his party just in time for some shocking news from Theda.

It's the first day of seventh grade at the new middle school which still does not have a name, so a ""Name Your School"" student contest is created by the former Mayor White who is now the school's principal. The contest causes fierce competition between Patti and Doug when they don't like each others school name suggestions. Doug meets all his teachers including his homeroom and English teacher Miss. Kristal, and during breaks, the students realize the school isn't quite finished yet. Also, the gang is on the search for the perfect new hangout since the Honker Burger is now gone.

Doug and Skeeter wear their Bluffscout uniforms to school to prepare for the upcoming Shindiggarama. But Doug gets laughed at and concludes the Bluffscouts are ""kids stuff"", so he quits. Doug then trys to live a more grown up life by talking and dressing like a grown up. A mature party at Roger's house makes him realize he's not having fun as an adult because he cared too much about what people think. Doug then goes back to Bluffscouts and has a great time at the Shindiggarama.

The Funnie family is curious when Doug gets a letter from Bolivia. Doug's explanation involves the previous summer, where Doug went to the Grinning Bear Sports Camp with Patti. Meantime, Doug's asthmatic cabinmate Leonard, who has made a career of escaping summer camps, plans yet another escape. However, Doug, Chalky, and Patti have to worry about the upcoming basketball game they have to play against a tougher camp.

Patti eyes the snooty club, The Junior Daughters of the Founding Mothers and Fathers where no boys are allowed and Doug is surprised she's interested in it. Doug worries if Patti joins the club, she'll change and won't have time for him anymore. Also, Skeeter has his eye on Muffy Silverson who is part of the club, so Doug and Skeeter dress up as girls to find out all about the snooty place. Meanwhile, Ned, Willy and Boomer accidenally save the oldest tree in town and are treated as public heroes.

Doug wants to go to The Beet's Final Farewell Concert with Patti. In order to get enough money to buy concert tickets, Doug gets a job in his grandmother Edna's craftee shopee. She agrees to let Doug make the store more hip by adding a hot foamaccino bar and other various hip toys which increases sales. Soon, Doug has more than enough money for two front row tickets at the concert and even has enough to make the night special. But the day of the concert a trendier store opens accross the street which leaves Doug with no money, and his grandmother out of business.

For a class project, Judy lets Doug borrow one of her theatrical Napolean hats after making him sign a contract. Doug loses the hat and Roger finds it and won't give it back to Doug. In order to get the hat back from Roger, he asks Doug to do many favors including stealing a plastic cow. After all the favors are done, Roger still refuses to give the hat back. Since Doug can't return the hat to Judy, he must suffer the consequences.

After Connie starts a rumour, the students of Beebe Bluff Middle School get into an uproar that Skeeter is really a vampire. Doug and Roger investigate the rumour and soon everyone becomes scared of Skeeter after they see him hanging out with bats. Soon all of his friends avoid him and on the night of his Halloween party, Doug feels guilty for not going to his party without even knowing what Skeeter thinks about the rumour.

When Doug gets tired of being insulted by Roger and his gang, he gets help from Mr. Dink, who provides him with some home movies of the famous insult comedian, Rick Nickles. After viewing these home movies, Doug gets the ability to crack insulting jokes. At first it puts Roger in his place, but Doug soon realizes that he's made a mistake when he makes wisecracks about the people he loves. Meanwhile, the Beebe Bluff Middle School baseball team goes on strike after Chalky is unfair in his coaching.

Doug ends up directing the annual Founder's Day Pageant after Judy drops out of directing duties. The group decide to stage a musical based on the founding of Bluffington by the Bluff family. But everyone has different ideas for what to do, and the argument causes everyone to split up. A sudden blizzard leaves everyone stuck inside the school, and Doug realizes they will all have to cooperate to pull through. When help comes to rescue them, they decide to stay in school to finish the play.

It's B.L.A.B.A.B.B.A. Day at the middle school, and there are dozens of clubs the students can join. Doug tris to find the best club and thinks that the Brain Team would impress Patti, and make him less average. Doug then takes the Brain Test and in order to be on the school's Brain Team. When he cheats, he ends up on the team but can't handle studying for the Bowl of Brains Quiz Bowl.

After Doug and Skeeter see a commercial for the new movie Targetman, they desperately want to see it. Soon, all of Doug's friends and even his teachers are talking about Targetman. When Doug tells his parents he wants to see it, they don't allow him because it is way too violent and they feel Doug is not mature enough to see it. So Doug tries to be more mature in front of his parents in order for them to let him see the movie, but they still say no. Doug goes with Skeeter to see the movie anyway, only to regret it later on. Meanwhile, Mr. Klotz is in town to visit Roger who also wants to see Targetman, but Mr. Klotz won't let Roger see it, and he doesn't realize why.

Doug complains to Patti about how tough he has it at home. Doug thinks she must have it easy because she is home schooled. Soon, Beebe and Skeeter and Chalky and Roger debate over who has it hardest. So they all agree to switch places for a day. Also, Moo comes to Doug for advice on his brother who is dying his hair, changing his style of clothes and making friends, and Moo doesn't want his brother to change.

Doug complains that Miss. Kristal gives too much homework, and wishes she wouldn't. After Willy tells his dad that Miss. Kristal is a bad teacher, Principal White fires her. So Principal White becomes their new teacher and brings an end to homework. The class is happy that there is no more homework, but soon Willy is the teacher and when he goes overboard, the entire class realize how good Miss. Kristal was.

With a new baby on the way, Doug's family is too busy to have a traditional Christmas and Doug wants one. So Doug and Porkchop decide to have their own secret holiday celebration in his room. But when he later finds the house completely empty Phil phones with news, the baby is born on Christmas Day. Meanwhile, Fentruck tells all his friends how they spend Christmas in Yakestonia.

Doug finds a lost puppy in Lucky Duck park and he decides to keep it until its owner is found. But the puppy proves to be too much trouble at home. The new puppy may be cute, but he isn't like Porkchop and Doug realizes a regular puppy is a lot of work to take care of. When the puppy's owner is still not found, Doug gives all his friends a chance to own him. Meanwhile, Al and Moo calculate the day an alien is schedueled to land in Lucky Duck Park.

It's student counsil elections at the middle school and Beebe, roger and Chalky are all running. Doug meets eighth-grader Guy Graham who gives him a job on the school newspaper as the cartoonist. Guy tells Doug to create a cartoon on the school student coucil election and draw who he thinks should win. When Roger and Beebe get word, they bribe Doug to make him draw the cartoon about them. Meanwhile, Chad Mayonnaise becomes the middle school's new history teacher and Patti now attends school full day.

When the house of Roger's annoying friend Ned Cauphee burns down, Doug thinks is his fault after telling Ned that ""he'll get his someday"". Theda offers to house him while Ned's house is fixed. When Ned arrives, Doug can't believe how well he behaves because he is nothing like that at school. Doug even starts to feel sympathetic towards Ned. But now Ned is off to visit Grandma Funnie with the rest of the Funnies and Doug is worried he'll ruin his grandmother's home.

Miss. Kristal assigns a book report with no rules, she tells the class to use thier imagination. At the same time, Beebe is being filmed for a documentary sponsored by her Dad. This means the book reports will be shown on TV, which makes everyone in the class want to have the biggest and best report in the entire class. Doug decides to show some drawings he drew, but he realizes that it's not exciting enough, so he goes on a search to find a book where he can make a more exciting report. But when he doesn't have an exciting report the night it's due, he either has to present his drawings or nothing at all.

The new snack fad ""Nic Nacs"" is targeted at adults and kids are going crazy to try some. It soon turns into a negative snack that kids are not supposed to have, which just makes all of Doug's friends wanting some. Through Doug's research for an article for the school paper, he discovers that the snack has an unpleasant and temporary side effect. Also, Mr. Dink quits his job at Bluffco and tries to write his own book.

Guy sees a musical and is inspired by it. He tells Skeeter to work on a secret script for a huge drama play for Beebe Bluff Middle School. The play is a love story between Leonardo da Vinci and the Mona Lisa. Doug gets interested in auditioning when he learns Patti gets the female lead, and is in a KISSING SCENE at the end of the play. Doug trys hard to get the male lead, but when Guy gives himself the role, Doug wonders if his work was wasted. But before showtime, Guy gets sick and someone else has to be the male lead.

Doug finds hair in his comb and fears he's going bald, and figures Patti won't want to hang out with him anymore. The gang also is going to meet at the new water park when it opens and Doug doesn't want to go because of his hair. Meanwhile, Patti gets her first pimple. Beebe gets her first nose job and Roger may have gotten his first whisker. Doug lets all these things get in the way of his fun, and later realizes he shouldn't have. Also, Skeeter gets his first failing grade in shop class when his coat rack assignment isn't simple enough, so he is given a second chance to make another simple object.

Doug begins to worry that the new baby Cleopatra Dirtbike will end up being another Judy, and Judy is afraid she'll grow up to be like Doug. So the two set out to shape the baby's personality. When Phil and Theda go out for an evening, Judy and Doug are left to babysit and don't want the other to be left alone with Dirtbike. But when their fighting leaves Dirtbike alone in Mr. Dink's house, they realize they are going to have to co-operate to get her out.

Doug wakes up the morning after the Flounder's Day Picnic to find that Porkchop has packed up his things and is gone. He concludes that someone must have done something bad to him to make him pack up and leave. So he goes to talk all his friends to question them about what happened to Porkchop the day before.

Doug enters a school contest to paint a mural on a new school wall. But when he has to share the mural design with Roger, he's not sure he can do it with him because he thinks Roger can't really draw. Also, Bluffington is in a heat wave and the Sleech twins think it is their fault, so they set out to change the hot weather.

Doug and his friends decide to meet at Funkytown and spend a day having fun, so Judy volunteers to drive him there. But before she drops Doug off, Judy wants to shop at Snord Grupen. After leaving the giant mall, Doug and Judy get lost on the way to Funkytown.

The lives of Doug and all the other students at Beebe Bluff Middle School become a frenzy when Mr. Bone returns and becomes the middle school's new vice principal. He soon starts throwing Roger into detention and making new school rules. Also, eighth graders invite Doug to join a secret club of the future powerful men of the universe. But in order to be worthy to join, Doug must prove he can be a successful person and it's cutting himself out of monster hunting with Skeeter.

Skeeter is dating Beebe and Doug is disgusted by Skeeter's lovesick attitude and jealous of their friendship. Doug decides to fight back which ends up in the end of their friendship. Doug and Skeeter have been friends forever, but not anymore. Then when Doug tries to break up Skeeter and Beebe, Elmo reminds Doug who got them together. Meanwhile, a flood is reported to hit Bluffington and Roger wants to be part of ""the biggest thing to ever hit this town"".

Patti panics and thinks she's fat after watching a commercial selling a diet kit, so she, Connie, and Beebe set out to lose weight. Patti decides to go on a drastic diet and excercise routine. But once she starts losing weight, she can't seem to stop herself, even with Doug's help. Meanwhile, Doug and Skeeter are convinced that the only way to catch the Lucky Duck Lake monster, is to lure it with a female monster.

When Guy invites Patti to go to a star-studded premiere of a new movie called Slag & Felpy, Doug feels jealous that Guy took Patti out on a date. In a Quailman daydream, the Golden Salmon appears in Megalopolis, but Quailman isn't sure he's a superhero. Meanwhile, Dr. Rubbersuit separates Quailman's dark side into an evil personality knows as the Dark Quail.

Judy helps out with Gwen Gauntlet, her favorite actress and teen role model, while she is in town to shoot an entertainment show. Judy hopes she can get a recommendation from Gwen for Vole University. However, Gwen is so self-absorbed that it tests the limits of Judy's patience. Meanwhile, Doug and Skeeter think they've shot proof of the monster on Judy's video camera and Judy won't let them see the tape.

Connie Benge becomes obsessed with winning a local radio-station contest to become a rock 'n' roll star. She brings Doug into it, and is so obsessed she thinks about quitting school just like Flounder from The Beets did. Soon she realizes Flounder may have not done the right thing. Meanwhile, Al, Moo and Skeeter try to contact the monster of the lake by creating a monster calling machine.

Bill Bluff's public relations firm decides that Bill should have Thanksgiving Day dinner with an average Bluffington family to increase his popularity. Doug's family is choosen and turns their simple Thanksgiving plans upside down. They won't let Patti join their dinner and Judy doesn't like what Bill is doing in preparation for the big dinner. So Doug sets out to make everyone happy for Thanksgiving.

When Doug worries he is only average, he decides that to make his level of importance higher he should be a collector of unusal and (hopefully) valuable items. So he goes to a flea market with a valuable collecters item book looking for rubber tub stoppers and bowls, but someone has already gotten to them. Meanwhile, Roger gets on Mr. Bone's good side to get himself out of detention and Skeeter asks the A.V. Nerds to help him find the Lucy Duck Monster using A.V. equipment.

One of Doug's New Years resolution is to tell Patti how he feels about her. But when Doug realizes he hasn't done that yet, he decides that giving her a kiss at Beebe's New Years Eve party will do it. So Doug rents movies and uses balloons for practice. At the party, midnight is approaching and Doug finds out that Patti left Beebe's party to go to other parties with Guy. It looks like Guy had the same plans for Patti as Doug did. Meanwhile, Roger tries to break his own record of how many girls to kiss at midnight and Judy hates all the New Years celebration.

Popular eight grader Cassandra Bleem asks Doug to be her date at the upcoming Bluffington Blowout Bar-Becue and Beach Bash beach party and he does everything to prepare to be cool in front of Cassandra. Meanwhile, the Sleech twins try different kind of ways to get dates for the beach party.

Doug is practicing for the Rudolph Bluff Memorial Bike Rally, where he is on Patti's team and they are determined to beat Roger's team. But after Doug has a bicycle accident, he breaks his leg and once it heals, he is afraid to get back on his bike. His fear won't let him practice or even ride in the rally, and if he doesn't overcome his fear, it would let Patti and the team down. Meanwhile, Doug learns about Mr. Dink's phobia of beans and how he has tried to overcome it.

Doug, Patti and Guy are invited to see The Beets recording a new record in Bluffington, but Doug promised to clean his grandma's attic with his Dad. As he cleans, Doug escapes into a daydream about how goofy Quailman's Dad is against the Golden Salmon. Back to reality, Doug finds out that his Dad was in a band in the 70's and when he drops Doug off at the recording studio, they learn that the Beets need a replacement drummer for a song. When Phil steps up to take the job, Doug just hopes he won't be embarassed.

Patti and Skeeter comment about how great Guy's weekend party was which makes Doug decide to have his own party. At school, Patti and Skeeter accidentally get locked in a janitor's closet after doing a favor for Miss. Kristal. While being locked in, they share a secret and promise each other not to tell anyone else. But somehow Roger finds out and he tells the whole school about Patti and Skeeter's secrets, which leaves the question of who spilled the secret. Patti thinks Skeeter told, and Skeeter thinks Patti told. The two friends become so angry at each other, that Doug has to try to get them to be friends again before his party.

Beebe is having a Halloween party with a costume contest. After Doug's homemade Lucky Duck monster costume is destroyed by Dirtbike, Doug needs help for a new Halloween costume. So he goes to Skeeter, Judy, Mr. Dink, and Roger for help, but Doug can't believe they are all too busy to help him. Later, Doug can't believe that people all over town are turning into Doug clones!

While Chad is out of town, Patti comes to stay with the Funnies for a week and Doug worries she will realize that he is just an average guy. So he tries to be someone else in front of Patti in order to impress her. Meanwhile, Al, Moo, and Skeeter build a submarine out of junk to look for the Lucky Duck monster.

Roger blames Doug for hitting Mr. Bone with a football, which sends Doug to detention. Roger then pretends to break his ankle and again blames it on Doug. Feeling guilty, Doug then becomes Roger's servant. In Megalopolis, Quailman thinks he is to blame after Dr. Klotzenstein's Funky Pumper stops working after Quailman uses his Quaileye on him. He decides to go inside his body to cure him, but soon finds out the real cause of Kloztenstein's illness.

A new change is coming to the Beebe Bluff Middle School... school uniforms! But all the students don't want uniforms so Sally rallys Patti, Roger, Fentruck and Beebe and forms a protest group. But after Principal White and Vice Principal Bone don't listen, Sally stages a student debate. But Sally ends up losing her voice, so Patti has to take over the debate. But it seems the power has gone to Patti's head. Meanwhile, Doug and Skeeter wonder what to do for their Civics class report.

Patti is better than Doug at every sport they play, and Doug wonders how he will ever impress her. So he daydreams about how Quailman would try to impress a new superhero who arrives in Megalopolis named Supersport.

Flounder wants to start a new group and talent searches in Bluffington. When he sees interest in Judy's ""music"" he starts dating her and Doug gets three tickets to Flounder and Judy's upcoming concert. At school, Doug becomes popular because he promised 20 tickets for 20 people, but he now has to risk his popularity in telling them only two tickets are available. Meanwhile, Theda gets a makeover and wonders if she should keep her new look.

The S.T.U.A.R.T. corporation's faulty products are making citizens in Megalopolis uncharacteristically short-tempered. Quailman has had enough of the faulty products, so he and Silver Skeeter set out to find the leader.

Doug volunteers to spend time with the residents of the Maturing Meadows retirement home. He meets Mrs. Whackhammer and doesn't make a good first impression (or a second impression). Doug turns to Quailman, to see how he would handle a monster who turns the citizens of Megalopolis grouchy.

Judy auditions for an acting admission to Vole University, and she accidentally hands in Doug's doodle to the Dean. Judy ends up accepted to Vole, but only because of Doug's doodle. Judy is okay with it until the Dean asks her to draw examples for a class. Meanwhile, Doug tags along with Judy and finds out what he really wants to do with the rest of his life as he waits for the results from a drawing talent contest.

Everyone at Beebe Bluff Middle School is worried about the upcoming mysterious S.P.I.T. tests. If they fail, they could be sent back a grade... or so the rumour says. Then, Doug bumps into Mr. Bone who leaves behind the S.P.I.T. test folder. If Doug takes a look inside the folder, he can tell his friends what's on the test. Doug wonders if thats the right thing to do, then turns to Quailman. In Megalopolis, the Quizzler is stealing information and words all over town and Quailman must set everything back to normal.

In preparation for Bluffington Pride Day, the contest to write the official Bluffington Anthem is on. Patti has written the perfect song, the only problem is she can't sing to save her life. Doug lies to Patti about her singing which leads to her entering the contest and Doug has to tell the truth or convince Patti to drop out of the singing contest because it would only embarass her.

Doug's old best friend Bobby Bodingo is moving to Bluffington, and Doug can't wait to show him around school and introduce him to his friends. But Bobby just isn't the same as he used to be, he's rude and crude and even makes Doug go in the girl's bathroom. As a result, all of Doug's friends don't like him and won't spend time with Doug if Bobby is around him.

Mr. Dink is always busy with several gadgets and he's too busy to give Doug his Bluffscout ""snoarking"" badge test. So in a daydream, Quailman tries to help his friend Professor Quint in his experiments. But the Professor always fails because, he's always busy with so many different things. Quint thinks he'll succeed in crime insetad of science and Quailman must set him straight. After his daydream, Doug uses Quailman's actions on Mr. Dink.

Doug always manages to have a bad hair day on school-picture day. So when school-picture day comes around again, Doug douses himself with hair-care products to prevent bad hair. Meanwhile, he daydreams how Quailman would handle a bad hair day, as an evil shampoo from the S.T.U.A.R.T. company is taking over the hair of all the citizens in Megalopolis.

Beebe Bluff's family is penniless due to heavy investments in the Yakestonian snoozegraffle crop, which gets completely destroyed due to a storm. Also because of the destroyed crop, Fentruck's family can't support their son overseas and will have to send him back home if he doesn't raise enough money. Doug, Patti and Skeeter try to save Fentruck from leaving and show Beebe that you don't need a lot of money to have a good time.

Judy forces Doug and his friends to do a Shakespearean tribute to recycling instead of a fun play they came up with on their own. Meanwhile, in Doug's daydream Judydra is turning everyone in Megalopolis into performance artists and Quailman (along with the League of Ultra Buddies) must stop her.

Patti worries her Dad, Chad, is dating Edwina Klotz, so she does everything, including eating at Chez Honk to find out. Doug and Patti discover Chad is dating someone, but it's not Edwina. When she has dinner at the Mayonnaise's, Patti feels she is trying to replace her mother. Meanwhile, Doug finds out the truth about what happened to his pet goldfish as a kid.

Quailman is finally getting recognition. Doug has been offered to draw a Quailman comic for the school paper, The Weekly Beebe. But the night before Doug's Quailman comic is due, Doug has not begun drawing. Meanwhile in a Quailman daydream, Quailman has lost his powers and feels he can't save Megalopolis without them, which allows Dr. Rubbersuit to steal all the beets in the entire city.

Convinced that girls like rebels, Doug decides to cut school during an assembly and have a wild adventure with Skeeter. But Mr. Bone finds out and although he can't tell who is cutting school, he is determined to hunt down the fugitives. Doug and Skeeter go to the mall, Swirly's and the park and find out that cutting school is not as wild as they thought. When their boring adventure is over, they return to school only to find out that Patti doesn't like a real rebel.

An alien being named Generalissimo Twang tries to convince the three evildoers Dr. Klotzenstien, RoboBone and the Golden Salmon that they can defeat Quailman if they work together.

Roger gets Doug to teach him how to be a gentleman in order to get Beebe to ask him to go to the Bumpkin Day Hoe-Down Dance with him where the girls ask the guys. Doug hopes Patti will ask him, but she's sick and Doug is afraid she'll ask someone else once she's better. Also, Skunky shows his friends that he has webbed toes which is distracting everyone in gym class, so Coach Spitz forces Skunky to cover up his toes at all times.

Even though he knows he is not supposed to, Doug loans Roger his school newspaper press pass so Roger can get into an early screening of a movie. But after Roger gives a bad review of the movie to the press wearing Doug's press pass, Doug has to confront the consequences. In Megalopolis, the Kabrain twins help Quailman turn into Rubbersuit to learn more about him. But when the real Rubbersuit finds out about this, he visits the Kabrain twins to get them to change ""Rubbersuit"" back into Quailman.

While surfing the internet on the Funnie family's new computer to find music for the upcoming retro dance, Doug and Skeeter encounter Webster, a 'kid' they agree to meet to exchange some records. What the boys don't know is that Webster is really 'Friendly Frankie,' a rather unscrupulous adult. Instead of meeting them, however, Webster/Frankie creates a distraction and steals their records. Horrified, Doug and Skeeter go back online and find similar records for sale at Friendly Frankie's Used Records. At the store, when the boys try to talk to Frankie about their records, Doug and Skeeter find themselves in a bad situation. Meanwhile, Judy is online in the 'Bluffington's Pretentious Artists Chat Room,' where she meets a guy who uses the screen name 'Leonardo D'Warhol'. Believing she has met the man of her dreams, Judy arranges a meeting in person only to discover that Leonardo is not quite the man she expected.

Doug is horrified to find out that Todd Bentley is going to be on his team for the Bluff Scouts hike. Doug imagines Quailman having to teach Quailkid how to be a super hero. The only problem is that he'd rather discover why things all over Megalopolis are being stolen. Quailman finds out Rubbersuit is behind it, along with his Little Rubber Army and Quailkid wants to join.

For the final school dance of the school year (the Spring Fling A-Ding), Doug tells his class he can get The Beets to play at the dance, but they suddenly break up again after fighting over a banana. Meanwhile, Phil's old band members visit the Funnie's and they decide to play at the dance when Doug invites them. But after Doug hears their horrible practice session, Doug has to decide if he should fire his own Dad from playing at the dance and embarassing himself.

In the series finale, more changes in Doug's life are underway as Judy prepares to leave for college and Doug's voice begins to crack. Seventh grade is over for Doug and his friends, to start off the summer Chad Mayonnaise and Miss. Kristal are getting married. Principal White is performing the ceremony and Doug is asked to carry the wedding ring, but while paying for frothy goats he accidentally loses it. Convinced he gave the ring to Mr. Swirly, Doug and Skeeter ride all over town to try and find him and the ring before the wedding starts. Meanwhile at the church, Mr. Bone and Mr. Fort argue over who should get to play at the wedding, Judy complains the stage she is performing on is too small, and one of Mr. Dink's very expensive machines goes crazy. If that weren't enough, Roger's wedding present lands on top of the reception tent causing the tent to collapse, and Principal White faints as soon as the wedding starts. After the happy couple is married, Judy drives away towards Vole,