Squirrel!

"Squirrel!" is the first episode of the Up mini-series Dug Days. The episode premiered on September 1, 2021, on Disney+.
==Synopsis==
Dug comes face to face with his sworn enemy.
==Plot==
A sunny day with lots of sun and fresh air, Dug wakes up and comments excitedly that if he woke up, everyone should be awake, he runs to wake Carl up to start a new day, after eating his croquettes and his water, Carl too They made their peanut butter toast which took a long time to buy.
When Carl comes out with some tools and a wooden board, Dug asks him if they are going for a walk but Carl told him that he is going to build something and tells him to wait a moment for his invention to be ready, upon leaving Carl was about to start building his invention, only to find Dug by his side, Dug asks if it is something for him, but Carl tells him no after Dug gave him a trigger, Dug then hints that Carl acts like his father and since then decides to say so much to Carl's chagrin.
Once finished, Dug asks him what he just built, Carl tells him that it is a bird feeder, tells Dug that birds should eat seeds, even though he was so exhausted, he decides to take a little nap and instructs Dug to take care of At the trough, Dug looks up at the sun realizing it's too hot, so he covers Carl with an inflatable pool so he won't sweat.
Dug is about to take care of the feeder, at which a small sparrow appears but Dug accidentally scares him thinking he was an intruder, he calls out to him saying that there is food for him but he does not listen to him, suddenly Dug yells "squirrel!" and sees a squirrel on the fence, the squirrel fled like lightning towards his house that was at the top of a tree, where he kept his acorns, but from his burrow Dug watched her with an angry look on his face.
Dug begins to tell the squirrel that he planned to eat the food of the bird he had scared, however, the very cunning managed to sneak behind him and sneaked into the trough, Dug chased her throughout the garden, but the squirrel that was very cunning she climbed onto the clothesline and knocked down Carl's shirt, climbed to the top of the tree to protect herself, but returned to the garden causing Dug to get more and more angry with her, returning to the bird feeder, Dug tried to reach her but he hit his head dropping all the bird food, the squirrel grabbed everything he could and continued to escape the dog, ran towards Carl's garden where he ruined some flowers that Carl had planted, sneaked through the clothesline but Dug grabbed it although he did not count that his tail was tickling him and threw it back to the tree like a slingshot, when the bird came back he realized that the feeder was empty and he scolded Dug for that and flew away, but Dug had a idea.
Dug takes out the bag of seeds to return to the feeder but he did not realize that the squirrel was following him, shortly after the bird reached the ground and ate some seeds, Dug realized that the squirrel was behind all this, he chased her once more, but this time he climbed the tree where he began to climb the branches to reach her, after a few minutes, Dug does not remember how he got there but that he was a good climber, the squirrel scolds him for having it followed home, but suddenly, the branch breaks causing not only Dug to fall but also to drop the acorns that were in his house until they get lost in a sewer.
Saddened, the squirrel gets into Dug's mouth as if telling him that he should give up and devour him once and for all, Dug feels very sad for the squirrel, but it occurs to him to give him some peanut butter to satisfy his hunger Although Dug was satisfied, the squirrel threw the can at him which fell a bit of peanut butter on his nose, he tasted it but did not like it at all, he got mad at the squirrel again, just as Carl woke up.
Fully awakening from his nap, Dug runs up and tells Carl he looked after the feeder, Carl looked around and saw all the mess that had happened, then remarked that the seeds ran out and gave the squirrel his butter Peanut surprising Carl, despite that Carl treats him as his best friend and favorite pet, but Carl's project falls to the ground and breaks and Dug comments that his project disappeared, thus ending the episode.
==Cast==
*Bob Peterson as Dug
*Edward Asner as Carl Fredricksen
==Trivia==
* Carl's favorite food according to him is peanut butter.
Category:Pixar shorts
Category:Up
Category:Series premieres
Category:Dug Days episodes