The dogs decide to find the puppies themselves, leaving Perdita to look after the Dearlys. Pongo and Missis try to tell their owners the word 'Suffolk', but they cannot make the 'S' sound. The humans fail to trace the pups, but through the 'Twilight Barking', a forum of communication in which dogs can relay messages to each other across the country, Pongo and Missis track them down to 'Hell Hall', the ancestral home of the de Vil family in Suffolk. After she pays a second visit to the house and is told again that the Dearlys have no intention of putting the puppies up for sale, she hires thieves to steal them for her. She had run away looking for those puppies.Ĭruella happened to be in the house when the puppies started to arrive, and had expressed a desire to buy them, which was rebuffed. She tells Pongo about her lost love Prince and the resulting litter of puppies, which were sold by her neglectful owner. Perdita helps to nurse the pups and becomes a member of the family. She has the dog treated by a vet, learns that she has recently given birth, and names her Perdita (meaning 'lost'). Dearly looks for a canine wet nurse, she finds an exhausted liver-spotted Dalmatian in the middle of the road in the pouring rain.

Concerned that Missis will not be able to feed them all, the humans join in to help. Later, Missis gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies. She admires the two dogs and expresses a desire to have a Dalmatian-skin coat. Dearly: Cruella de Vil, a very wealthy woman so fixated on fur clothing that she married a furrier and forces him to keep his fur collection in their home so she can wear the pieces whenever she likes. Dearly have a chance meeting with an old schoolmate of Mrs. One day, while walking Pongo and Missis, Mr. The dogs consider the humans their pets, but allow the humans to think that they are the owners. Dearly is a 'financial wizard' who has been granted lifelong tax exemption and lent a house on the Outer Circle in Regent's Park in return for wiping out the government debt. Dearly and their two nannies, Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler. Pongo and Missis are a pair of Dalmatians who live with the newly married Mr.

A 1967 sequel, The Starlight Barking, continues from the end of the novel. It was originally serialized in Woman's Day as The Great Dog Robbery, and details the adventures of two dalmatians named Pongo and Missis as they rescue their puppies from a fur farm. The Hundred and One Dalmatians is a 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith about the kidnapping of a family of Dalmatian puppies.

The starlight barking book