When the carriage loses a wheel, they rest on the hassocks of a country church. One puppy, Cadpig, is too weak to walk the long distance from Suffolk to London so Tommy, the Colonel's two year old pet, lends her a toy carriage. Pongo and Missis devise a plan to rescue all of the puppies and escape the day before Christmas Eve. They learn that there are 97 puppies in Hell Hall, including Pongo and Missis own 15.Ĭruella de Vil appears and tells the crooks in charge of Hell Hall to slaughter and skin the dogs as soon as possible because of the publicity surrounding the theft of the Dearlys' puppies. After a journey across the countryside, they meet the Colonel, an Old English Sheepdog who shows them Hell Hall and tells them its history.
The dogs decide to run away and find them themselves, leaving Perdita to look after the Dearlys. Pongo and Missis try to relate the puppies' location to the Dearlys but fail. The humans fail to trace them but through the "Twilight Bark", a forum of communication in which dogs can relay messages to each other across the country, the dogs manage to track them down to "Hell Hall", the ancestral home of the de Vil family in Suffolk. Shortly after the dinner party, the puppies disappear. The Dearlys are disconcerted by her belief that all animals are worthless and should be drowned. Dearly attend a dinner party hosted by Cruella de Vil, an intimidating and very wealthy woman fixated on fur clothing. Perdita later tells Pongo about her lost love and the circumstances that led to her abandonment, and leaves out the part where her pet named her Spotty because she likes Perdita so much better. She has the dog treated by a vet and names her Perdita ("lost"). Dearly looks for a canine wet nurse, and finds an abandoned Dalmatian in the middle of the road in the pouring rain. Concerned that Missis will not be able to feed them all, the humans join in to help. Missis gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies. The dogs consider the humans their pets, but allow the humans to think that they are the owners. Dearly is a "financial wizard" who has been granted life-long tax exemption and lent a house on the Outer Circle in Regent's Park in return for wiping out the government debt.
Dearly and their two nannies, Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler. Pongo and Missis Pongo (or simply Missis) are a pair of Dalmatians who live with the newly married Mr. The Great Dog Robbery) is the novel by Dodie Smith.
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