There seems to be no place for the smallest child in a family's busy preparations for Thanksgiving, until Grandpa steps in and they perform a vital task everyone else has forgotten.
While visiting his aunt and uncle in the little South African village of Kalk Bay, Armien stows away in his uncle's fishing boat and becomes an unexpected hero.
Monsieur Monmouton and his shepherd dog Cabot head to New York in pursuit of the farm animals that have taken off on a sightseeing trip, but Monsieur's focus on catching the wayward animals wavers when he meets an attractive waitress at the Kool Kat Klub.
On Christmas morning a stray cat slips into the house through an open kitchen window, and the children decide to keep him, hidden in an old basket under the stairs.
