Blythe rejects the notion of her dad going on a date to a charity ball, while Penny Ling struggles to voice her disapproval of an outfit Blythe designs for her to wear at the ball along with the rest of the pets.

While on her way to meet with her friends at a flash mob, Blythe gets trapped in the dumbwaiter along with Zoe, Pepper and Minka. While Penny Ling tries to attract the attention of the boys to get them out from the dumbwaiter, Zoe and Pepper start to fight, and within their compact space, Minka's claustrophobia is triggered.

Zoe begs for Blythe to enter her in a reality television series based on a beauty pageant for dogs. What starts off as enjoyable starts to consume Blythe, who becomes driven by winning the pageant, much to the dejection of Zoe.

An endangered specimen of cobra escapes from within a pet carrier of Fisher Biskit, after finding a potential buyer for it. Meanwhile, after three straight days of rain, the pets go on a walk with Blythe to their public park. Sunil breaks away from the group, and finds himself among a group of tribal raccoons, as well as a pigeon who can understand them. There, they find the escaped cobra, and Sunil saves them after confronting it using his primal instincts. They celebrate, and the raccoons force Sunil to stay with them indefinitely as their king.

When Harold, an obnoxious groundhog, arrives at the day camp, Russell cannot wait for the day to end but is horrified to discover it never does.