They help each other's families to survive the harsh winter and find their way back together through the forest to their barn, living together. After this, they separate and raise puppies and kittens. Milo and Otis are reunited, and soon find mates of their own: Joyce, a cat, for Milo and Sondra, a pug, for Otis. Finally, the two catch up with one another while Milo is in the hole, Otis pulls him out by means of a rope. Otis, for his part, follows Milo throughout, usually only an hour behind and less than a mile out of range. He encounters two bears escapes from the desolate, raven-infested Deadwood Swamp steals a muskrat from a fox cache follows a train-track to the home of a female deer, who shelters him sleeps in an Owl's "dreaming nest" stays for a while with a sow pig and her piglets catches a fish, only to have it stolen by a raccoon is mobbed by seagulls and evades the third bear, then a snake, only to fall into a hole. Milo goes on many adventures, escaping one incident after another. When Milo is playing inside a box floating in the river, he accidentally drifts downstream. Otis convinces the chick that Otis is not his mother by acting tough on Milo and scaring the Chick. They then look after Gloria's chick, who thinks Otis is his mother. He finds a pug puppy named Otis ("Poosky" in the Japanese version), and they soon become friends. One of the kittens is named Milo ("Chatran" in the Japanese version), and has a habit of being too curious and getting himself into trouble. The film opens in a barn with a mother cat who has given birth to kittens. (Shigeru Tsuyuki narrated the Japanese version.) Director Masanori Hata and associate director Kon Ichikawa edited the film together from 400,000 feet of footage, which is roughly 40.3 hours, shot over a period of four years. Initially filmed as Koneko Monogatari (子猫物語 A Kitten's Story alternative English title: The Adventures of Chatran) in Kitakyūshū, Japan, the film was completely revamped, trimmed and westernized with added narration by Dudley Moore. The original Japanese version was released on June 27, 1986, and the reworked English version was released on August 25, 1989.
But loyal dogs Shadow and Chance, alongside Sassy, their Himalayan cat companion, have already demonstrated the powers of teamwork, lion launching, and inexplicable pipe physics in their previous adventures.
Milo the kitten and Otis the pug puppy, best friends since birth and no strangers to the most hostile conditions the directors of their movie could sadistically envision, have their experiences in an apparently human-free world and the wisdom of bizarre Japanese dream owls to draw upon. However, thanks in part to the blundering of Cruella's credulous cronies, Horace and Jasper, our adorable fluffy heroes have managed to escape, and now face a daunting challenge - surviving the perils and pitfalls of the English wilderness on the path back to their respective idyllic points of origin, all while continuing to avoid Cruella and her grasping goons. It's once again time for hackles to rise, fur to fly, and Kit to get unreasonably excited about animals as Smash Fiction goes on its very own incredible journey! Cruella DeVille is in the market for some new formal attire and has gotten her evil hands on five of the most iconic cats and dogs of 80s and 90s kids movies.