Gertrude LaRue receives funny typewritten and paw-written letters from he dog, Ike, entreating her to let him leave the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy and come back home.

Bella knows the family rules but lives by her own, as well, causing her behavior to be "too wild, too rude, and too risky" until Granny brings her a puppy with similar problems.

Auntie, who is a dog trainer, thinks Clifford needs to learn obedience, but to Emily Elizabeth the big red dog is perfect already.

The overweight and unathletic son of a famous former football star discovers that his equally fat and lazy dog is unexpectedly--and obsessively--interested in competing in dog agility contests.

Hadley is an angry girl: angry at her mother for embezzling money, angry at her estranged older sister, Beth, whom she has to live with while her mother is in jail, angry at having to move to Kentucky away from her friends, and angry at the world because she has retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly going blind; but then she meets Lila, a rescued pit bull who has not responded to anyone else--so if Hadley can train Lila, maybe the dog can get adopted...

Twelve-year-old Tom learns first-hand about honor, first when he is wrongly accused of lying at school, then when he faces the risk of losing a puppy he has come to love while helping his grandfather train hunting dogs, but writing to a new friend helps him sort his feelings and do the right thing.

Kristy's family has a new Labrador retriever puppy who is being trained to be a guide dog for the blind.

When Aggie the dog does not mind, Ben takes her to obedience school wheich ends in disaster, but while practicing at home one day Ben realizes what really motivates Aggie to mind.

In order to stay in the warm and cozy home he has longed for, Shoe Dog must learn to stop chewing shoes.

Mom, Dad, and brother Pete all try to get Buddy to obey, but only one family member understands how to communicate with the mischievous canine.