It was harder to shrug off his brother's affections, but Jove wiggled out and gave Ren a playful shove. He had to be serious today, no hair-ruffling! Only mushrooms! He tried to give Ren a serious face to impress on him the severity of the situation. The other canine seemed to get it though! Jove offered the boil from the dinosaur movie an enthusiastic tail wag, and then looked back at the gryphon as if to say "See? Only business today!"
He felt his excitement rise as the new faces appeared. They were students he didn't know, maybe new snots, but they had all decided to come along and help out! Offering each one a tail wag in turn, he took the hand of the little fluffy one who looked particularly confused, and then began tugging the little wagon straight into the woods.
It's okay, even if they didn't know much about mushrooms, he would show them which ones were good!