In the kitchen, Martha tries to convince Mariella and Danny to give her an allowance, but they point out that pets don't get allowance, and Helen has to earn her allowance by doing chores. She goes into Helen's room and complains about not getting an allowance, then sees her drawing her family tree. Martha is impressed, but is disappointed that pets aren't part of family trees.
Martha then gets curious about her lineage and asks Kazuo who her ancestors were. He shows her an educational video on wolves, which inspires Martha to join the wolf pack at the zoo, along with Skits. The wolves scare Martha and Skits away, so Martha decides to find a pack with dogs instead. Then, she decides that they could make their pack.
She gets Skits, Burt, and Cisco and tries to have them howl like wolves, but they don't do well. She then says it's time to prowl for food, but the three boy dogs want to raid the Lorraines' fridge instead. Martha thinks they don't understand, and decides the four of them must move to the woods.
She then decides that it's time to hunt, so they try to hunt some squirrels, but fail miserably — Skits and Burt are clumsy, Cisco gets chased by stinging insects, and Martha tries to talk two squirrels into letting her and her friends eat them.
That night, the dogs are hungry and the boy dogs want to go home, but Martha wants them to all live in the woods and eat bugs. Cisco hears his owner opening a can of dog food, so he runs home. Then, Martha, Skits, and Burt find a hollow log that Martha wants to use as their "wolf den". However, Burt thinks it's too cold and damp, and when he hears his owner making his bed, he runs home too. Martha and Skits lie in the log, and when she tries to make him move over, the log rolls downhill. Then, Skits realises that it's Wednesday and Courageous Collie Carlo is on. Martha is tempted, but she decides that she'd rather live with her own kind than feel like an outsider, so she sends him home to watch the show alone.
Now alone, Martha sees a duck and decides to have him for dinner. However, when she sees that his left wing is broken, she takes him to the vet instead. The vet bandages the duck's wing, and he talks to Martha, revealing that he wants to be a pet. Martha then brings the duck (whose name is revealed to be Ralph) home and asks the Lorraines if they can keep him until he recovers, and Danny says yes. Martha then reveals that she added the dogs to her family tree.
This episode provides examples of
- Amusing Injuries: When trying to hunt, Skits and Burt accidentally bump heads.
- Barefoot Cartoon Animal: One wolf in the video Martha watches wears a smock and no shoes.
- Continuity Nod: The black cat from "Martha the Witness" is seen again.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: The squirrels throw acorns at Martha and laugh at her despite her wanting them for dinner.
- Dogs Hate Squirrels: Martha and her friends use squirrels for hunting practice.
- Everyone Has Standards: Martha doesn't usually have qualms about killing live prey, but she wouldn't kill an injured animal.
- Hypocritical Humour: Martha says that the squirrels throwing an acorn at her is "not nice", despite having told them she wants to eat them.
- Lineage Comes from the Father: Zigzagged. When Helen draws her family tree, she draws her paternal grandparents but not her maternal ones, yet she draws Grandma Lucille's parents without drawing Grandpa Bernie's.
- A Pet into the Wild: Martha, Skits, Burt, and Cisco try to move into the woods and live like wolves.
- Race-Name Basis: Until learning Ralph's name, Martha calls him "Duck".
- Savage Wolves: The wolves at the zoo growl at Martha and Skits and scare them away.
- Scary Stinging Swarm: Cisco is chased away by a swarm of bees or hornets.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Cisco and Burt give up the wild life and run home after getting hungry and finding the "den" too cold and damp respectively.
- Shout-Out: In the educational video on wolves, a wolf is seen looking at a girl in a red cloak, referencing Little Red Riding Hood.
