Zeke wants to bring home the class hamster, so to prove that he is responsible he promises his mother that he will take care of the family dog for a whole week--after that it is one disaster after another.
Joel faces a difficult decision when he learns that the family is moving and he can't take his adopted tomcat along--abandoning the cat is unthinkable and finding him a new home seems impossible.
Lilo, a little girl living with her older sister in Hawaii, finds her small family in big trouble after she adopts Stitch, an alien experiment she believes to be a strange-looking dog.
Maya and Miguel decide to bring Paco, their parrot, to school one day because he is so sad to be alone all day at home; but when he escapes, the kids try to capture him before the bird breaks every rule in the school.