Henry Carter Hull

Kate's family hires a dog trainer called the Brigadier to teach the exuberant Dave how to behave, but they are all unhappy with the results.

When they help out at a guide dog training school, the Alden children meet several people who seem obsessed with a particular dog named Ginger.

Fiona Bristow, the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer who shot and killed her fiancé and his K-9 partner, is living quietly on Orca Island off the Seattle coast where she runs a thriving dog-training business, when her life is disrupted by artist Simon Doyle who is desperate for help in calming his wild puppy, and by the emergence of a copycat killer who wants the woman that got away.

Newly orphaned and living with the half sister she hardly knows, twelve-year-old Olive rediscovers her hope when she starts training a guide dog puppy.

The Newtons send Beethoven to obedience school. While there, he gets mixed up with Michelangelo, a well-behaved St. Bernard. The Newtons are surprised at how well Michelangelo behaves, while Beethoven runs wild in Michelangelo's house.