Editing One Hundred and One Dalmatians (section)

==Plot==
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In 1957, aspiring songwriter Roger Radcliffe lives in a [[bachelor pad|bachelor flat]] near [[Regent's Park]] in [[London]] with his pet [[Dalmatian (dog)|Dalmatian]], Pongo. Deciding both of them need a "mate", Pongo watches women and their dogs in the street. Noticing a young woman named Anita and her Dalmatian Perdita, he drags Roger to the park to arrange a meeting. Roger and Anita fall in love, and soon marry, with Pongo and Perdita attending.

The Radcliffes hire a [[housekeeper (domestic worker)|nanny]] and move into a small townhouse near Regent's Park. After Perdita becomes pregnant with a litter of 15 [[Puppy|puppies]], Anita's fur-obsessed former schoolmate, [[Cruella de Vil]], arrives and demands to know when the puppies will arrive. Roger responds by writing a [[#Music|jazzy song]] mocking her. A frightened Perdita confesses to Pongo that she now regrets the idea of having puppies due to Cruella wanting them. When the puppies are born, Cruella returns demanding to buy them. Roger firmly denies her offer and Cruella, refusing to take no for an answer, swears revenge as she storms out.

Several weeks later, Cruella makes good on her threat; secretly hiring Jasper and Horace Badun, two [[Burglary|burglar]] brothers, to steal the puppies. With [[Metropolitan Police|Scotland Yard]] unable to find the puppies or prove Cruella was involved, Pongo and Perdita use the "Twilight Bark", a canine gossip line, to solicit help from the other dogs in London, and eventually all of England.

On the farm of a retired cavalry officer, the Colonel, a military-like [[Old English Sheepdog]], along with his feline compatriot Sergeant Tibbs, investigate nearby Hell Hall, the "Old De Vil Place", where puppies had been heard barking two nights earlier. Tibbs finds the puppies in the old mansion and learns that Cruella intends to make them into dog-skin [[Fur clothing|fur coat]]s. After the Colonel sends word back to London, Pongo and Perdita leave through a back window and begin a long cross-country journey, crossing an icy river and running through the snow toward [[Suffolk]].

Meanwhile, Tibbs overhears Cruella ordering the Baduns to kill the puppies that night out of fear the police will soon find them. In response, Tibbs helps the puppies escape through a hole in the wall, but the Baduns notice and give chase. Pongo and Perdita break into the house and confront the Baduns just as they are about to attack the cornered Tibbs and the puppies. While they fight the two men, the Colonel and Tibbs guide the puppies from the house. Following a happy reunion with their own puppies, Pongo and Perdita discover there are 84 more puppies with them. Shocked at Cruella's evil plans, they decide to adopt all the puppies, certain that Roger and Anita would never reject them.

The Dalmatians start their homeward trek, pursued by Cruella and the Baduns. They take shelter from a blizzard in a [[Dairy farming|dairy farm]] with a friendly [[Rough Collie|collie]] and four cows, then make their way to Dinsford, where they meet a [[Black Labrador]] waiting for them in a [[blacksmith]]'s shop. Cruella and the Baduns arrive, prompting Pongo to have his entire family roll in a [[soot]]y fireplace to disguise themselves as other Labradors. The Labrador helps them board a moving van bound for London, but melting snow falls on Lucky and clears the soot off of him, blowing the dogs' cover. Enraged, Cruella pursues the van in her car and tries to ram it off the road, but the Baduns, attempting to do the same with their lorry, end up colliding with her. Both vehicles crash into a ditch, and Cruella yells at the two in frustration for ruining everything before weeping over the loss of both her car and her beautiful dream coat as the van drives away.

In London, a depressed Nanny and the Radcliffes try to enjoy [[Christmas]] and the wealth they have acquired from the song about Cruella de Vil, which has become a big radio hit. The soot-covered Dalmatians suddenly flood the house. Upon removing the soot and counting the massive family of dogs, Roger chooses to use his songwriting royalties to buy a big house in the country so they can keep all 101 Dalmatians.