A gullible Border terrier named Reggie lives with his self-centered, unreliable owner, Doug. Reggie thinks Doug loves him and goes above and beyond to make him happy, much to Doug's dismay, even though Doug merely keeps him around to punish an ex-girlfriend named Ashley. Reggie sees it as a game and ignores Doug's repeated attempts to leave him after he unintentionally ruins his bong.
Three hours distant from where Reggie lost sight of Doug, he meets Bug, a streetwise Boston Terrier who shows him the ropes of being a stray after protecting him from a Doberman and Rottweiler pair. Bug also presents Reggie to two of his pals: Maggie, an Australian Shepherd, and Hunter, a Great Dane who is in therapy and harbours affections 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
During the journey back to Doug’s house, the group bonds as they get into several situations, culminating in getting caught by animal control after a hallucinogenic mushroom-induced high causes them to maul a family of rabbits, which they mistake for plushies. However, Hunter also ends up reuniting with Rolf, an old friend of his who is a police dog, though he still lets animal control capture them. During their captivity, Bug admits that he used to have a family of his own but was forced to escape when they tried to euthanize him after he bit their daughter (though he fails to see exactly what he did wrong). In an attempt to escape, Reggie suggests that every dog defecates on the floor at the same time so when the security guard opens it, they can all run out, in which they are successful. After escaping the pound, however, Reggie convinces himself that he is to blame for Doug treating him poorly. This causes Bug to urinate on Reggie's bandana in a fit of rage and Reggie leaves the other strays. Making their way back to the city, Bug, Maggie and Hunter stumble upon a lost girl scout named Riley Anderson, whom animal control had been searching for recently, and alert Rolf, the other police dogs and a search and rescue worker to her location.
Reggie returns to Doug's house and after reminiscing about all the times Doug mistreated him, he finally sees what he was. As he cuts ties with him, an enraged Doug prevents him from leaving the house and attempts to get rid of Reggie by slaughtering him with a baseball bat. The other strays arrive and intervene and, with their help, Reggie successfully mutilates Doug, during which his house is set ablaze and his pickup truck is destroyed by a fallen utility pole. Afterwards, the strays move on: Hunter returns to being a therapy dog and starts a relationship with Maggie, the latter begins training as a police dog, the Girl Scout adopts Bug and Reggie remains a stray and chooses to guide new strays, though still spends time with his friends.
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