A girl and her dog set out in their canoe one morning, only to be insistently joined by a series of animals, large and small.

When outlaw Dirk Yeller arrives in Cowtown looking for something to take away his cat-scratch fever, young Sam, whose pa says he is "a world-a-trouble and curious as a tomcat," knows just what this dangerous and jittery criminal needs to calm him down.

While out playing with his family one night, Little Otter shows that he knows what to do when danger is near.