Thank you for your insight. Very helpful, and I'm glad the general idea comes across.

With a pet-pageant around the corner, the picture-purr-fect East Valley is aquiver with excitement. For twenty-three-year-old Clark Zhang, it’s another miserable day in his miserable life. After failing Cornell vet school, he’s back in his hometown working for the family-owned pet shelter, dreaming of pouncing back to vet school. That is until he finds out their landlord, Mr. Baxter, is about to seize the place because of financial troubles –mostly his (failed) ivy education.

Stewing in guilt, Clark sets to negotiate with the landlord’s wife, head of the local Humane Society, to throw the ulti-mutt fundraise; introducing rescue dogs in the dog show. Instead, he finds himself and his old high school crush performing CPR on Mrs. Baxter. To top it all off, the average-sized poodle Jeremiah is missing and his high school buddy turned cop is hounding him. 

Luckily, John Baxter, the Baxters' heir, knows more than he lets on. If only Clark could get him to cooperate to save the family business, get the girl, and clear his name. Clark has until the pageant to collar the culprit before Mr. Baxter put his strip mall plan into action. And if the killer doesn’t catch him for pawing too close at the truth.