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When a boy is viciously attacked and bitten in the leg by a pit bull, it is up to the Critter Gitters to capture the offending pooch before he is able to strike again. When animal control arrives to check up on the dog, they receive no cooperation whatsoever from the animal’s equally mangy owner, Mr. Belcher. Professor Headful, who remembers “Darth” from his days as a mailman, devised a plan to capture the dog. Tune in to see if the Critter Gitters act fast enough so that no one else gets hurt.
The Critter Gitters, along with Professor Headful, are hopeful that they can teach “Zeus,” an injured African Grey bird of prey, how to fly again. The Professor decides to take Zeus along with him on a hang-gliding expedition off a cliff top, while Jimmy, Nick, and Annie monitor his progress from inside the Critter Gitter van. The real adventure begins when the Professor is forced to crash land the hang-glider as two kids armed with paintball guns attack him from below. The Critter Gitters will have to act quickly if they hope to aid the Professor and capture the mischievous paintballers.
Champion, a beautiful show-horse, dies mysteriously in a pasture, and the Critter Gitters team is called in to investigate. As Dr. John West and his partner, Dr. Kaitlin Melling explore the causes, another case springs the Critter Gitters into action. Bobby and Susan answers a call from a frightened youngster who has discovered what seems to be a rattlesnake in the kitchen. The coiled snake has the girl’s mother and brother cornered and is ready to strike! The Critter Gitters rush to the scene to rescue the family. Meanwhile, Professor Headful is furiously working in the Critter Gitters laboratory preparing for the Critter Gitters expedition to Costa Rica to track down and capture a terrorizing creature know as the Chupacabra! Tension builds back at the clinic as another horse collapses in the valley and the team tries to solve the mystery of the dying horses.
The saga continues, as the entire valley searches for an answer to the mystery illness striking the horses. At the Road Apple Farm, Patrick, a young blind boy, sits by the horse, sobbing and stroking his mane. Will Dr. West and the Critter Gitters be able to solve this puzzle before even more horses die? Also debuting in this episode is a new flying machine devised by Professor Headful. The next time this contraption will be seen is when the Critter Gitters travel to Costa Rica.
Bobby and Jimmy thought helping out a friend for a week delivering newspapers would be a breeze. Professor Headful saw this as a great opportunity to invent a newspaper-delivering gadget, which he calls "The Paper Shooter." To get familiar with the paper route, Jimmy and Bobby drive through the neighborhood. The farthest house on the route is the home of Ben Richards, the crankiest old man on the route! As they drive by, the old man glares angrily at them, and they hear Mr. Richards barking out orders to the workers as they lay the new sod lawn. The next morning, Mr. Richards finds his entire lawn rolled up! He immediately suspects and accuses the Critter Gitters, since he remembered seeing their van the day before. Tune in to find out how the Critter Gitters clear their name and solve the mystery of the rolled up sod.
Back at school after a week-long absence, Jimmy is confronted by the humorless school principal, Ms. Tart, who demands he explain to the class where he has been. Egged on by his classmates, Jimmy begins to tell the tale of his and the Professor's Costa Rican adventure in search of the mysterious and legendary Chupacabra. Along the way, they meet all kinds of interesting people and experience firsthand the natural beauty and adventure of the Costa Rican landscape. Whether swimming in volcano-heated waters, whitewater rafting or swinging across the jungle canopy on ziplines, there is never a dull moment for the Professor and Jimmy. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, Kaitlin arrives in Costa Rica shortly afterwards, having been dispatched by Jimmy's parents to retrieve their son. Luckily for Kaitlin, a nice Costa Rican girl named Annie, who offers to help her track down Jimmy and the Professor, befriends this fish out of water. As Annie tells her new classmates, it is the beginning of a great friendship, one that has ultimately brought her back to the United States as a foreign exchange student.
As Jimmy and Annie continue to tell their awe-struck classmates, things are really beginning to heat up in Costa Rica. The search for the Chupacabra has taken Jimmy and the Professor from the jungle canopy to the beach at Tamarind and eventually into the dangerous estuaries on kayak. Meanwhile, Kaitlin and Annie, who always seem to be one step behind the two adventurers, manage to track them down with the help of a couple of lucky breaks involving Annie's cousin, Juan, and Federico, the Professor's trusty pygmy African tree frog sidekick. However, though Kaitlin and Annie arrive to find Jimmy safe and sound, the Professor has seemingly disappeared. Closer inspection reveals that he has abandoned his kayak and continued on foot into the jungle in a final, desperate attempt to catch a glimpse of the ever-elusive Chupacabra. It is a climactic final pursuit that, as the Professor himself admits to the absolutely riveted classroom, still does not fully uncover the mystery and intrigue of the Chupacabra, a creature undoubtedly best left to the jungle
When a small puppy falls down a storm drain and the Fire Department cannot rescue him, it is once again up to the Critter Gitters to save the day. With the cooperation of two helpful firefighters, the team works to save the dog before the rising waters of the storm drains carry the helpless puppy away. Extra pressure is added when the school principal, Ms. Tart, shows up on the scene because the kids weren't in class. Dr. West also introduces a new pet in this episode, so tune in to see how this new "member" helps the team.
A well-deserved vacation finds Dr. West at a campground in the mountains for a little rest and relaxation. Meanwhile, the Critter Gitters are back at headquarters busy with chores and clinical duties. A strange sequence of events lands them in the middle of a mysterious dog-poisoning escapade. Dr. West too, ends up becoming involved in a series of events that soon transforms his campsite into a makeshift animal clinic.
When a rattlesnake at the beach bites a cat, the Critter Gitters are called into action. Upon arriving at the scene, they meet up with Captain Ron, a harbor patrolman who tells the kids of the tragic death of hundreds of sea lions on San Miguel Island. Intrigued by this and eager to help in any way they can, Jimmy and Nick decide to ride out to the island with Captain Ron, where they eventually meet up with a friendly park ranger, who explains to them that it isn't always possible to save every animal. Meanwhile, back at the clinic, Annie stays up all night with the injured cat, doing the best she can to save its life. After a stern warning from the new school principal, Ms. McCracken, it becomes a race against time for the Critter Gitters to get back from the island before they are suspended.
Someone has been pilfering diamonds from wealthy poodle owners - and it's up to the Critter Gitters to solve the crime! With the help of Professor Headful, our heroes uncover two international thieves who smuggle the jewels with unwitting homing pigeons. The kids capture them in the act during an elaborate sting operation, but the criminals escape to Switzerland. If justice is to be served, there's only one thing to do ... follow them!
Our story continues as the Critter Gitters arrive in Switzerland hot on the trail of the jewel smugglers. Professor Headful and Nick recruit the help of their Swiss friends to track the hapless thieves through the small village of Zermatt. The kids have one last chance to capture the crooks in a high-speed, skier vs. snowboard chase down the slopes of the Matterhorn.
The episode revolves around Rocky, a chimpanzee that accompanies Professor Headful to a hangar to test fly a model of the Rubber Bandit, a plane propelled by the twisting of a huge rubber band. Realizing that Professor Headful misunderstood and is about to test fly the real plane, Rocky decides to run off into town. This brings us to Toys R Us, a store full of toys and other interesting things to play with. Find out if the Critter Gitters can stop Rocky from making too big of a mess
