Becky's family has just moved next door to a creepy, abandoned house, but when mysterious howls, snarls, and an awful smell begins to come from the abandoned house Becky realizes there is something over there.
Daniel, a Midwestern farm boy, finds a battered dog in a ditch and nurses it back to health, but is disappointed when the dog doesn't immediately respond to his gestures of affection.
Discusses how Bulu, a Jack Russell terrier born on a crocodile farm in Zambia, became a foster parent for orphaned baby animals after being adopted by Anna and Steve Tolan, former police officers who left England to live in the African bush.