Walking through a parking lot at Fisherman's Wharf after their lunch on a hot day, Doris and Myrna see six poodles inside a locked station wagon, a business car of Paul's Poodle Parlor, with all the windows rolled up and no food or water inside. With Myrna's help, Doris does whatever needed to get the poodles out of this unsafe situation. Managing to break in, Doris figures that the most prudent course of action is to take the poodles back to the air-conditioned office--as Nick has gone for the day--and telephone "Paul" to have him pick up the poodles there, but not before she informs the poodles' owners of the shabby way Paul has treated them them and gives Paul a piece of her mind. In the aftermath, Doris faces two legal matters: Paul charges her with breaking and entering and theft; and her actions could affect Nick's abilities to get Supreme Court Justice William Forester to agree to have the magazine publish his memoirs.
—Huggo