Dixie Lee brings home an alligator, a snake, and an owl as pets to protect her family from such spooky creatures as the churn-turners, the bogeyman, and the mist-sisters.
Although a young child puts off cleaning the bedroom because all the family's pets are asleep there, the sudden arrival of a zooming fly mysteriously gets the job done.
A brown street rat, who longs to be someone's pet and to have his very own name, gets lucky when he meets a man in the pet shop who has extremely poor eyesight.
After noticing that a visiting hummingbird likes her pink petunias, Annie and her rabbit Snowball, accompanied by Henry and his dog Mudge, fill the garden with pink objects to attract more hummingbirds.
After Abby and Tess agree to pet-sit for Ms. Fitzpatrick they are curious as to what kind of pet she has--and hope for a puppy--only to discover that Prissy is actually a pig, but when peculiar things start happening Tess wonders if Prissy has magical powers.
Pet-sitters Abby and her little sister Tess run into trouble with their client and each other when they are hired to care for a lizard while its owner is out of town.
