Pedrito's parents survived Hitler's forced labor camps in Poland. They moved to Venezuela and waited ten years for visas that would take them to America. Dog is their pet--a fierce South American rooster with a caw so deep he sounds more like a dog's bark than a rooster's cock-a-doodle-do. Dog's fierce courage helps the family bridge that gap between the jungle and 1950's America, between the horrors of the Old World and the challengers of the New World, but how can a rooster follow the family to America?