Unfortunately for the crooks, several dogs witnessed the abduction of the puppies and a network of barking dogs send a message to Pongo and Purdy on the whereabouts of their children. Pongo opens the door and he and Purdy escape from the house and follow the dog grapevine to find their puppies.
As Roger, Anita, and Nanny sip tea and commiserate on the missing dogs, Anita dashes up to check her portfolio and pulls out the Dalmatian coat drawing that Cruella had revised. She figures out that Cruella plans to make a coat out of the puppies and they contact the police with their suspicions.
As Pongo and Purdy are closing in on the farm, a helpful Airedale Terrier (I hope that’s the name of this breed!) breaks into the farmhouse and begins the rescue mission of the puppies. A sheepdog and raccoons have also joined the rescue effort. The raccoons stuff coal up the tailpipe of Jasper and Horace’s truck, then sit in the vehicle honking the horn and flapping the windshield wipers to distract the bad guys while the Terrier leads the Dalmatian pups to safety. One pup, Lucky, sleeps through the escape and is left behind when Jasper and Horace come back into the farmhouse to search for the puppies. The sheepdog takes the 98 puppies on to the next leg of the escape while the Terrier returns for Lucky.
Mr. Skinner, a taxidermist, who can’t talk due to a dog attack that left a huge scar on his neck, has been dispatched to the farm by Cruella to kill the puppies. Cruella arrives at the farm and learns the puppies are gone. She jumps back into her car to look for them, unaware a skunk has gotten into her car, and is hiding in her hat. (Poetic license. There are no skunks in Great Britain.) While Jasper and Horace attempt to start the truck, Skinner arrives at the farm and finds only Lucky there. Before he can grab the whimpering pup, the Terrier runs up and bites him on the butt, effecting the escape of the last puppy.
Cut back to the Jasper and Horace’s truck, which has now caught on fire, and a police search of Cruella’s house that turns up furs of endangered animals.
Pongo and Purdy arrive at the barn and are reunited with their puppies (minus Lucky) plus the other 84 stolen pups. They are just barely ahead of Cruella who is tracking the puppy pawprints in the snow. The puppies hide in the hay while she slops through the manure into the barn to look for them. She grabs a forklift and jabs it into the hay until she thinks she sees a pup and grabs it by its tail only to discover it’s a large pig who ends up sitting on her while all the dogs escape the barn. In a final insult, the barn animals dump Cruella into a vat of molasses.
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