Shelley Swanson Sateren

When they are not fighting with each other Alfie Wolfe and his twin sister Alfreeda help out with their mother's dog hotel business--but just now he is faced with a friendly pug called Twinkles, and an aggressive Golden Retriever, named Gracie, who seems to regard him as a threat.

Twins Alfie and Alfreeda are charged with getting Molly the West Highland white terrier fully groomed in time for her owner's wedding, where she will wear a collar bearing the wedding rings--the trouble is that Molly hates being groomed and has apparently buried the collar somewhere at the Hound Hotel.

Tabitha Catarina is staying at her grandparents' farm/cat hotel for the summer, and she is thrilled when the owner of Queen Lizzie's Pizza Palace brings Queen Lizzie, a Sphynx cat, to Tabby Towers to stay because Lizzie keeps jumping up on the counter too close to the food--but her owner is sad, so Tabitha sets out to research this bad behavior and come up with a solution that will allow Lizzie to remain in the store that is named after her.

Tabitha Catarina's world revolves around cats, and there are certainly plenty of them at Tabby Towers, her grandparents' cat hotel, but she would really like to have her Himalayan cat, Bootsie, with her too--trouble is that Bootsie proves to be unexpectedly and implacably hostile to the other cats.

Alfie Wolfe is put out because his twin sister is actually stronger than he is--but not even Alfreeda can deal with Murphy, a powerful Rottweiler with an obsession about the cow next door, by herself.

The newest resident in her grandparents' cat hotel, Tabby Towers, is Frankie, a Bengal cat who loves water (despite what dog-loving neighbor Alfreeda says), and wants nothing more than to escape to a nearby lake for some fishing--so Tabitha comes up with the idea to build Frankie his own indoor water attraction using a kiddie pool, surrounded by rocks and stocked with painted wooden fish created by her grandfather.

Discusses the life, works, and lasting influence of Vincent van Gogh.