The Secret Strife of Pets

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**The Secret Strife of Pets** is the second segment of the 2nd episode in season 1 of *Harvey Street Kids*. The title of this episode is a reference to the 2016 Illumination film, *The Secret Life of Pets*.

## Synopsis

A mysterious animal arrives at Harvey Street and Dot must overcome her apprehensions to help find it a new home.

## Plot

The episode begins with Tiny, Fredo and Lucretia running away from a creature inside a trash can that chases them, fortunately for them, Harvey Girls were around. Audrey proposes a direct confrontation dreaming of facing the attack of a monster, while Dot puts on a hazmat suit. When they saw the trash can moving, Lotta hits the street to raise the dump while Audrey kicks it and Dot catches the creature with a net. The monster was shaped like a brown-haired ball, which in the end turns out to be a type of rodent. Dot is disgusted and decides to transport it in her Dotcopter. Audrey and Lotta object, saying it's looking for a home, but Dot does not want the creature to stay on Harvey Street and wants it to be taken to a shelter because she thinks it has parasites or germs.

The rest of the girls say that she cannot keep it because Lotta already has several rabbits and Audrey is not considered a perfect pet owner, so they propose to find her an owner and call her Fluffy. The girls go to Tiny, but Dot frightens him by saying that Fluffy eats the children of his stature. Then they go to Lucretia, but Dot looks for the excuse that the houses on Harvey Street do not have the proper structure to maintain it. On both occasions, Fluffy began to become fond of Dot. In the girls' HQ, Dot presses the girls to give up on continuing with the plan, she also takes advantage of taking Fluffy on a ride with the intention of missing it, however she begins to get fond of it.

The girls propose to give it to the Bow, but Dot hesitates. When they deliver it, Dot has no excuse and comes out crying considering the Bow's good animal curriculum. Back in the HQ, Dot with the excuse of seeing how the Bow treats her animals spy on her watching it with her Dotcopter. Watching from her notebook using Dot's camera implanted in the gadget, they notice that Bow plans to make Fluffy "sleep with the fish" and they panic, also the fact that Bow has several pictures of animals with yellow bars at the bottom saying "RIP" doesn't help too. The girls go to her house, Bow doesn't answer the door, and they see a silhouette of her carrying Fluffy, while they hear a shriek. After a failed Audrey Parkour, Dot asks to be flown with the Dotcopter.

When Dot was facing The Bow, it is revealed that she was making the shrieks, that she gives all her pets the name of Rip by "Ripley" and that Fluffy will sleep next to her two pet fish on a table. The Bow returns Fluffy to Dot, because the last admits that she wants it as a pet and ruined her inflatable chair. The episode concludes with Dot hugging her pet and it is revealed that all this time it was a kind of albino sewer rat that had brown fur around it for some reason.

## Characters

* Audrey
* Lotta
* Dot
* Tiny
* Melvin
* Fluffy (debut)
* Fredo
* Pinkeye
* Lucretia
* The Bow

**Cameos**

* Melvin (Photograph only)
* Pinkeye (Photograph only)
* Billy

## Broadcast

*"The Secret Strife of Pets"* was released to Netflix on June 29, 2018.

## Trivia

* When Bow reveals she names all her pets "Ripley", she says "Believe it or not", which is a reference to the *Ripley's Believe It or Not!* franchise.
* When The Bow screeches, her nose disappears for a frame.

## References

1. ↑ "harvey street kids on netflix". *The Futon Critic*. Retrieved on 2018 September 10.