- Otis: Maybe you don't realize it, Milo, but this a major day for me, because... well, maybe you don't realize it, but this is the day I've become... a watchdog!
- Narrator: The noise upstairs didn't disturb the dogs that slept in the barn. They could sleep through anything. But a lot of the other animals were awakened by all the scurrying overhead. Some of them just accepted it... some were pretty annoyed... and a few quietly plotted revenge.
- Narrator: Naturally, the sight of a dog and a cat watching an egg brought the usual string of gawkers... and thrill-seekers.
- Deer: Just let your heart lead and your feet will follow, and we'll bound and leap like a gentle breeze. Bound and leap like a zephyr set free. Bound, and, of course, leap.
- Narrator: Milo started walking too close to the edge.
- Milo's Mother: Milo, dear.
- Narrator: His mother called.
- Milo's Mother: [as Milo falls] That's not a good idea! Come back here, Milo!
- Narrator: She yelled.
- Chicken #1: Did you hear about Gloria?
- Chicken #2: Oh, the egg! So it finally happened! Is she staying at home with it or is she going back to work?
- Narrator: Under a fresh bright sky, Otis resumed his search for Milo. He saw in the distance an animal that he thought might be helpful.
- Fox: [singing and swimming in a creek] Deeya-da da da dat da, deya-da datta da... Eeyo edata da, de do doo datta-da.
- [Otis runs down the hill]
- Fox: Eeya dat-datta da!
- [continues singing, climbs out of creek]
- Fox: Oh... ah! Gah...
- [shakes water off]
- Fox: Ooh, that's better.
- [proceeds to jump in meadow]
- Otis: Excuse me! I'm looking for a friend of mine!
- Fox: I'm looking for, uh, someone to play with! Wanna race me across the stream, eh?
- Otis: I haven't got time!
- Narrator: ... Otis said, sensing that this fox wasn't going to be any great help.
- Fox: Hey wait a second... What kind of animal are you anyway?
- Otis: I'm a dog, of course.
- Fox: How can you be a dog? You have no tail!
- Narrator: Otis was outraged.
- Otis: I certainly do! Look!
- [wags his tail]
- Fox: Ha! You call that a tail? THIS is a tail! Ha ha ha!
- [waves his tail wildly]
- Narrator: And with that, the fox jumped away laughing.
- Milo: [taunting the bear in the drawers] Wanna come in? I'll help you. I'll pull you in by your nose!
- Narrator: Now the bear was raging mad. He'd had enough of rummaging through drawers after a cat. Now he was gonna pull the whole shack apart.
- Otis: [to bird who was perched on Milo's box] Woof! OK, punk!
- Narrator: Otis barked.
- Otis: Rrrr! There's the box. Now where's the cat?
- Bird: Poor Ca-ca-cat! So sad!
- Narrator: The bird croaked.
- Bird: Look in the box!
- Narrator: Otis prepared himself and peaked in the box, and saw... only a solitary black feather. And the bird flew away cackling.
- Bird: Ca-ca-ca!
- Narrator: Otis, meanwhile, had traveled through the wetlands to a beach, full of clam holes. A clam might be able to help him, but how does a dog talk to a clam? Then he remembered there was one magic word everyone understood, and that was "please." So he marched up to a clam hole and said,
- Otis: Excuse me. Uh, please...
- [a clam squirts water in his face]
- Otis: Aww. Ohh.
- Milo: [looking at a lobster on the dock] Wow! Look at this thing, Otis!
- Narrator: Milo said.
- Milo: Do you think we can eat it?
- Otis: Who would something that looks like that?
- Narrator: Otis replied, and continued on to the river. And then it happened. When Otis was just sitting on the dock, wasting time...
- [lobster pinches Otis on his bottom]
- Otis: Oh! Cor! OW!
- [Otis jumps into the water and splashes about for a while, ducks quack. Otis later returns to the dock]
- Narrator: Otis dried off, and came back to settle a score with that... that... uh, thing.
- Narrator: Sometime later, during the last weeks of the long winter, Joyce was making preparations. The time was drawing near.
- Milo: [about her soon-to-come babies] You okay, Joyce? Want some more dinner? Remember, you're eating for eight now.
- Joyce: Milo... Milo, I think it's time.
- Milo: Okay! Remember the way to breathe?
- [Joyce breathes deeply]