The morning Butterbean throws up on the floor, she is blissfully unaware that her life and that of all of the other animals in elderly Mrs. Food's apartment is about to change. When Mrs. Food comes out of her bedroom, she slips on the vomit and falls, hurting her head. Thankfully. Mrs. Food had an alarm button, and is able to call for help. The ambulance arrives, and she is taken away to the hospital, leaving the animals behind.
Suddenly, Butterbean the wiener dog, Walt the cat, Oscar the bird, and Marco and Polo the rats find themselves alone. How will they feed themselves? Who will take care of them? How will they have enough money to pay for their expenses? On top of it all, they are visited twice a day by Madison, a girl who resides with her aunt in the building, and Madison seems to always come at the most importune times, when they are busy plotting how to survive.
Putting their resources together, they discover that Butterbean has acquired a gold coin from the Scary Man, a resident who gives her the creeps. If he has a gold coin, perhaps there are more! Walt and Oscar soon hatch a plan to discover the apartment in which the Scary Man lives, then break in and take the gold. Working together, the pets put their plans into motion, and successfully retrieve the gold. Scary Man is violent, however, and when he takes Madison hostage, thinking it was her who stole the gold based on a button left in the apartment (Polo, one of the rats, had taken the button and it was her most prized possession), the pets now must undo their heist, but figure a way to capture Scary Man ...
A humorous story told from the pets' perspective, the animals are relatable, their worries very human, and their ways of dealing with stress and anxiety all to realistic. Fans of mystery and high jinx tales will enjoy The Great Pet Heist.
The story continues in The Great Ghost Hoax.
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